Keeley Hawes

Biography

Keeley Hawes (born 10 February 1976) is an English actress, born in London and educated at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. She began her career in a number of literary adaptations, including Our Mutual Friend (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Tipping the Velvet (2002), and The Canterbury Tales (2003). She portrayed Zoe Reynolds in the BBC espionage drama series Spooks from 2002 to 2004, followed by her co-lead performance as Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes (2008–2010), for which she won a Glamour Award. She played leading roles in the 2010 revival of Upstairs, Downstairs, the limited series The Casual Vacancy (2015), The Missing (2016), and the ITV comedy-drama The Durrells (2016–2019). Hawes was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her performance in Jed Mercurio's police procedural Line of Duty as DI Lindsey Denton. She teamed again with Mercurio for the 2018 thriller Bodyguard in which she played Home Secretary Julia Montague. Hawes has also appeared in films, including Death at a Funeral (2007) and High-Rise (2015), and she provided the voice of Lara Croft in a series of Tomb Raider video games.

Known For

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Doctor Who

The Graham Norton Show

Agatha Christie's Marple

Heartbeat

Heartbeat

The One Show

Spooks

All Movies (37)

• Scoop2024 · as Amanda Thirsk
• To Olivia2021 · as Patricia Neal
• Rebecca2020 · as Beatrice
• Misbehaviour2020 · as Julia Morley
• What The Durrells Did Next2019 · as Herself - Host
• The Coronation2018 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Never Land2017 · as Sarah
• Fungus The Bogeyman2015
• High-Rise2015 · as Ann Royal
• The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box2013 · as Catherine Mundi
• The Lady Vanishes2013 · as Laura Parmiter aka Mrs Todhunter
• Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes2011 · as Narrator
• Kate and William: A Royal Love Story2011 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Making of... Ashes to Ashes2009 · as Herself
• Flashbacks of a Fool2008 · as Jesse Scott
• The Bank Job2008 · as Wendy Leather
• 10 Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective2008 · as Narrator
• Death at a Funeral2007 · as Jane
• After Thomas2006 · as Nicola Graham
• The Best Man2006 · as Kate Sheldrake
• Under The Greenwood Tree2005 · as Fancy Day
• ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth2005 · as Ella Macbeth
• A Cock and Bull Story2005 · as Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes
• The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold2004 · as Dr. Julia Ogden
• The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying2004 · as Dr. Julia Ogden
• Chaos and Cadavers2003 · as Samantha Taggert
• Lucky Jim2003 · as Christine Callaghan
• Me & Mrs. Jones2003 · as Jane
• A Is for Acid2002 · as Gillian Rogers
• Othello2001 · as Dessie Brabant
• Hotel!2001 · as Tricia
• Complicity2000 · as Yvonne
• The Last September2000 · as Lois Farquar
• The Cater Street Hangman1998 · as Charlotte Ellison
• The Avengers1998 · as Tamara
• The Beggar Bride1997 · as Angela Harper
• The Moonstone1996 · as Rachel Verinder

All TV Shows (60)

• Falling2026 · as Anna
• The Assassin2025 · as Julie Green
• Miss Austen2025 · as Cassandra Austen
• Airborne2024 · as Self - Narrator
• Orphan Black: Echoes2024 · as Kira Manning
• Stonehouse2023 · as Barbara Stonehouse
• Crossfire2022 · as Jo
• The Midwich Cuckoos2022 · as Susannah Zellaby
• It's a Sin2021 · as Valerie Tozer
• Finding Alice2021 · as Alice
• Honour2020 · as DCI Caroline Goode
• Year of the Rabbit2019 · as Lydia
• Summer of Rockets2019 · as Kathleen Shaw
• Traitors2019 · as Priscilla Garrick
• Mrs Wilson2018 · as Dorothy Wick
• Bodyguard2018 · as Julia Montague
• Orangutan Jungle School2018 · as Narrator
• The Durrells2016 · as Louisa Durrell
• Fungus the Bogeyman2015 · as Wendy Snow
• The Casual Vacancy2015 · as Samantha Mollison
• The Missing2014 · as Gemma Webster
• Doctor Who Extra2014 · as Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self
• Inside No. 92014 · as Louise
• Ambassadors2013 · as Jennifer
• The Tunnel2013 · as Suze Beaumont
• The Hollow Crown2012 · as Queen Elizabeth
• Line of Duty2012 · as Lindsay Denton
• Upstairs Downstairs2010 · as Lady Agnes Holland
• Identity2010 · as DSI Martha Lawson
• Mutual Friends2008 · as Jen Grantham
• Ashes to Ashes2008 · as Alex Drake
• The Story of the Costume Drama2008 · as Herself - Narrator
• Would I Lie to You?2007 · as Self
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• That Mitchell and Webb Look2006 · as Keeley Hawes
• The One Show2006 · as Self
• ShakespeaRe-Told2005
• Doctor Who2005 · as Ms Delphox
• Agatha Christie's Marple2004 · as Phillipa Haymes
• The Murdoch Mysteries2004 · as Dr. Julia Ogden
• Canterbury Tales2003 · as Emily
• Tipping the Velvet2002 · as Kitty Butler
• Spooks2002 · as Zoe Reynolds
• Richard & Judy2001 · as Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross2001 · as Self - Guest
• Murder in Mind2001 · as Deborah
• Wives and Daughters1999 · as Cynthia Kirkpatrick
• The Blonde Bombshell1999 · as Diana Fluck / Diana Dors
• Our Mutual Friend1998 · as Elizabeth 'Lexie' Hexam
• The Beggar Bride1997 · as Angela Harper
• Karaoke1996 · as Linda Langer
• Pie in the Sky1994 · as Stella Jackson
• Heartbeat1992
• Heartbeat1992 · as Michelle
• Troublemakers1990 · as Mandy Harper
• Forever Green1989 · as Carol
• This Morning1988 · as Self - Guest
• An Audience with...1978 · as Self
• Upstairs, Downstairs1971