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
2014
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Doctor Who
2005
The One Show
2006
Heartbeat
1992
Heartbeat
1992
Spooks
2002
Richard & Judy
2001
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Line of Duty
2012
Inside No. 9
2014
Filmography
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self · 2014
The Graham Norton Show
as Self · 2007
Doctor Who
as Ms Delphox · 2005
The One Show
as Self · 2006
Heartbeat
· 1992
Heartbeat
as Michelle · 1992
Spooks
as Zoe Reynolds · 2002
Richard & Judy
as Self · 2001
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Phillipa Haymes · 2004
Would I Lie to You?
as Self · 2007
Line of Duty
as Lindsay Denton · 2012
Inside No. 9
as Louise · 2014
An Audience with...
as Self · 1978
The Durrells
as Louisa Durrell · 2016
Pie in the Sky
as Stella Jackson · 1994
Upstairs, Downstairs
· 1971
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self - Guest · 2001
The Bank Job
as Wendy Leather · 2008
Ashes to Ashes
as Alex Drake · 2008
The Hollow Crown
as Queen Elizabeth · 2012
The Assassin
as Julie Green · 2025
Murder in Mind
as Deborah · 2001
Bodyguard
as Julia Montague · 2018
The Tunnel
as Suze Beaumont · 2013
Upstairs Downstairs
as Lady Agnes Holland · 2010
It's a Sin
as Valerie Tozer · 2021
Orphan Black: Echoes
as Kira Manning · 2024
The Missing
as Gemma Webster · 2014
The Midwich Cuckoos
as Susannah Zellaby · 2022
That Mitchell and Webb Look
as Keeley Hawes · 2006
Falling
as Anna · 2026
Canterbury Tales
as Emily · 2003
Death at a Funeral
as Jane · 2007
Traitors
as Priscilla Garrick · 2019
Wives and Daughters
as Cynthia Kirkpatrick · 1999
ShakespeaRe-Told
as Ella Macbeth · 2005
High-Rise
as Ann Royal · 2015
Tricky Business
as Arabella · 1989
Miss Austen
as Cassandra Austen · 2025
Our Mutual Friend
as Elizabeth 'Lexie' Hexam · 1998
This Morning
as Self - Guest · 1988
Mrs Wilson
as Dorothy Wick · 2018
Year of the Rabbit
as Lydia · 2019
Tipping the Velvet
as Kitty Butler · 2002
Doctor Who Extra
as Self · 2014
The Avengers
as Tamara · 1998
Crossfire
as Jo · 2022
Stonehouse
as Barbara Stonehouse · 2023
The Casual Vacancy
as Samantha Mollison · 2015
Scoop
as Amanda Thirsk · 2024
Karaoke
as Linda Langer · 1996
Ambassadors
as Jennifer · 2013
Cold Lazarus
as Linda Langer · 1996
Finding Alice
as Alice Dillon · 2021
A Cock and Bull Story
as Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes · 2005
Identity
as DSI Martha Lawson · 2010
Misbehaviour
as Julia Morley · 2020
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
as Catherine Mundi · 2013
Summer of Rockets
as Kathleen Shaw · 2019
Fungus the Bogeyman
as Wendy Snow · 2015
Flashbacks of a Fool
as Jesse Scott · 2008
Rebecca
as Beatrice · 2020
Honour
as DCI Caroline Goode · 2020
Forever Green
as Carol · 1989
The Murdoch Mysteries
as Dr. Julia Ogden · 2004
The Blonde Bombshell
as Diana Fluck / Diana Dors · 1999
Mutual Friends
as Jen Grantham · 2008
Troublemakers
as Mandy Harper · 1990
Orangutan Jungle School
as Narrator · 2018
Under The Greenwood Tree
as Fancy Day · 2005
The Story of the Costume Drama
as Herself - Narrator · 2008
The Lady Vanishes
as Laura Parmiter aka Mrs Todhunter · 2013
To Olivia
as Patricia Neal · 2021
The Cater Street Hangman
as Charlotte Ellison · 1998
The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold
as Dr. Julia Ogden · 2004
10 Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective
as Narrator · 2008
The Beggar Bride
as Angela Harper · 1997
Othello
as Dessie Brabant · 2001
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
as Ella Macbeth · 2005
A Is for Acid
as Gillian Rogers · 2002
Complicity
as Yvonne · 2000
Airborne
as Self - Narrator · 2024
The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying
as Dr. Julia Ogden · 2004
The Beggar Bride
as Angela Harper · 1997
Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
as Narrator · 2011
The Last September
as Lois Farquar · 2000
Me & Mrs. Jones
as Jane · 2003
After Thomas
as Nicola Graham · 2006
The Making of... Ashes to Ashes
as Herself · 2009
Lucky Jim
as Christine Callaghan · 2003
What The Durrells Did Next
as Herself - Host · 2019
The Moonstone
as Rachel Verinder · 1996
Hotel!
as Tricia · 2001
Fungus The Bogeyman
· 2015
The Coronation
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2018
The Best Man
as Kate Sheldrake · 2006
Kate and William: A Royal Love Story
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2011
Chaos and Cadavers
as Samantha Taggert · 2003
Never Land
as Sarah · 2017