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