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Keeley Hawes
London, England, UK
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 adaptation…
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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.
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2026
Falling
TV show Anna
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2025
The Assassin
TV show Julie Green
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2025
Miss Austen
TV show Cassandra Austen
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2024
Airborne
TV show Self - Narrator
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2024
Orphan Black: Echoes
TV show Kira Manning
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2024
Scoop
Movie Amanda Thirsk
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2023
Stonehouse
TV show Barbara Stonehouse
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2022
Crossfire
TV show Jo
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2022
The Midwich Cuckoos
TV show Susannah Zellaby
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2021
To Olivia
Movie Patricia Neal
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2021
It's a Sin
TV show Valerie Tozer
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2021
Finding Alice
TV show Alice Dillon
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2020
Rebecca
Movie Beatrice
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2020
Honour
TV show DCI Caroline Goode
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2020
Misbehaviour
Movie Julia Morley
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2019
Year of the Rabbit
TV show Lydia
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2019
Summer of Rockets
TV show Kathleen Shaw
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2019
What The Durrells Did Next
Movie Herself - Host
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2019
Traitors
TV show Priscilla Garrick
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2018
Mrs Wilson
TV show Dorothy Wick
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2018
Bodyguard
TV show Julia Montague
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2018
Orangutan Jungle School
TV show Narrator
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2018
The Coronation
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2017
Never Land
Movie Sarah
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2016
The Durrells
TV show Louisa Durrell
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2015
Fungus the Bogeyman
TV show Wendy Snow
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2015
Fungus The Bogeyman
Movie
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2015
High-Rise
Movie Ann Royal
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2015
The Casual Vacancy
TV show Samantha Mollison
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2014
The Missing
TV show Gemma Webster
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2014
Doctor Who Extra
TV show Self
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self
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2014
Inside No. 9
TV show Louise
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2013
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
Movie Catherine Mundi
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2013
Ambassadors
TV show Jennifer
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2013
The Tunnel
TV show Suze Beaumont
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2013
The Lady Vanishes
Movie Laura Parmiter aka Mrs Todhunter
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2012
The Hollow Crown
TV show Queen Elizabeth
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2012
Line of Duty
TV show Lindsay Denton
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2011
Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
Movie Narrator
