Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes
10.02.1976 (48 years) (London, England, UK)
Keeley Clare Julia Hawes (born 10 February 1976) is an English actress. Born in London and educated at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, Hawes began her career as a model before appearing 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 (2008-10), for which she won a Glamour Award. She subsequently played leading roles in the 2010 revival of Upstairs, Downstairs, the limited series The Casual Vacancy (2015) and The Missing (2016) and the ITV dramedy The Durrells (2016-present). For her performance in Jed Mercurio's police procedural Line of Duty as DI Lindsey Denton, Hawes garnered widespread acclaim and a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. She subsequently reteamed with Mercurio for the 2018 thriller Bodyguard (2018), in which she played fictitious Home Secretary Julia Montague. Outside of television, Hawes has appeared in films including Death at a Funeral (2007) and High-Rise (2015) and provided the voice of Lara Croft in a series of Tomb Raider video games.