Keeley Hawes
Actor, Producer
February 10, 1976 (50 years)
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
Filmography
| 2025 | The Assassin · as Julie Green |
| 2025 | Miss Austen · as Cassandra Austen |
| 2024 | Scoop · as Amanda Thirsk |
| 2023 | Orphan Black: Echoes · as Kira Manning |
| 2023 | Stonehouse · as Barbara Stonehouse |
| 2022 | Crossfire (2022) · as Jo |
| 2022 | The Midwich Cuckoos · as Susannah Zellaby |
| 2021 | To Olivia · as Patricia Neal |
| 2021 | It's a Sin · as Valerie Tozer |
| 2021 | Finding Alice · as Alice |
| 2020 | Rebecca · as Beatrice |
| 2020 | Honour · as Dci Caroline Goode |
| 2020 | Misbehaviour · as Julia MorleyOn Plex |
| 2019 | Year of the Rabbit · as Lydia |
| 2019 | Summer of Rockets · as Kathleen Shaw |
| 2019 | Traitors · as Priscilla Garrick |
| 2018 | Andrew Davies: Rewriting the Classics · as Kitty Butler |
| 2018 | Mrs Wilson · as Dorothy Wick |
| 2018 | Bodyguard (2018) · as Julia Montague |
| 2018 | Orangutan Jungle School · as Narrator |
| 2016 | The Durrells · as Louisa Durrell |
| 2015 | Fungus the Bogeyman (2015) · as Wendy Snow |
| 2015 | High-Rise · as Ann Royal |
| 2015 | The Casual Vacancy · as Samantha Mollison |
| 2014 | The Missing · as Gemma Webster |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 · as Louise |
| 2013 | The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box · as Catherine MundiOn Plex |
| 2013 | Ambassadors · as Jennifer |
| 2013 | The Tunnel · as Suze Beaumont |
| 2013 | The Lady Vanishes · as Laura Parmiter Aka Mrs Todhunter |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown · as Queen Elizabeth |
| 2012 | Line of Duty · as Lindsay DentonOn Plex |
| 2011 | Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes · as Narrator |
| 2010 | Upstairs Downstairs (2010) · as Lady Agnes Holland |
| 2010 | Identity · as Dsi Martha Lawson |
| 2008 | Mutual Friends · as Jen Grantham |
| 2008 | Flashbacks of a Fool · as Jesse Scott |
| 2008 | The Bank Job · as Wendy LeatherOn Plex |
| 2008 | Ashes to Ashes · as Alex Drake |
| 2007 | Death at a Funeral · as Jane |
| 2006 | After Thomas · as Nicola Graham |
| 2006 | The Best Man · as Kate Sheldrake |
| 2005 | Under the Greenwood Tree · as Fancy Day |
| 2005 | ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth · as Ella Macbeth |
| 2005 | |
| 2005 | Tristram Shandy · as Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes |
| 2005 | Doctor Who (2005) · as Ms Delphox |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple · as Phillipa Haymes |
| 2004 | The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold · as Dr. Julia Ogden |
| 2004 | The Murdoch Mysteries (2004) · as Dr. Julia Ogden |
| 2004 | The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying · as Dr. Julia Ogden |
| 2003 | Canterbury Tales · as Emily |
| 2003 | Chaos and Cadavers · as Samantha Taggert |
| 2003 | Lucky Jim · as Christine Callaghan |
| 2002 | Tipping the Velvet · as Kitty Butler |
| 2002 | Me & Mrs Jones · as Jane |
| 2002 | A Is for Acid · as Gillian RogersOn Plex |
| 2002 | Spooks · as Zoe Reynolds |
| 2001 | Othello · as Dessie Brabant |
| 2001 | Murder in Mind · as Deborah |
| 2001 | Hotel! · as Tricia |
| 2000 | Complicity · as YvonneOn Plex |
| 1999 | The Last September · as Lois Farquar |
| 1999 | Wives and Daughters · as Cynthia Kirkpatrick |
| 1999 | The Blonde Bombshell · as Diana Fluck / Diana Dors |
| 1998 | The Cater Street Hangman · as Charlotte Ellison |
| 1998 | The Avengers · as Tamara |
| 1998 | Our Mutual Friend · as Elizabeth 'lexie' Hexam |
| 1997 | The Beggar Bride · as Angela Harper |
| 1996 | The Moonstone · as Rachel Verinder |
| 1996 | Cold Lazarus · as Linda Langer |
| 1996 | Karaoke · as Linda Langer |
| 1994 | The Vicar of Dibley · as Rosie Kennedy |
| 1994 | Pie in the Sky · as Stella Jackson |
| 1994 | Don't Forget Your Toothbrush · as Bra Girl |
| 1992 | Heartbeat · as MichelleOn Plex |
| 1989 | Tricky Business · as Arabella |
| 1989 | Forever Green · as Carol |
| 1987 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries · as Sarah Mabledene |
| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) · as Cynthia |
| 2025 | The Assassin · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Miss Austen · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Crossfire (2022) · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Finding Alice · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Honour · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | The Durrells · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Finding Alice · as Created By |