Keeley Hawes

About

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...

Known for

Doctor WhoSeries • 2005HeartbeatSeries • 1992SpooksSeries • 2002Agatha Christie's MarpleSeries • 2004Line of DutySeries • 2012Inside No. 9Series • 2014Upstairs, DownstairsSeries • 1971Pie in the SkySeries • 1994The DurrellsSeries • 2016The TunnelSeries • 2013The AssassinSeries • 2025The Hollow CrownSeries • 2012The MissingSeries • 2014It's a SinSeries • 2021Ashes to AshesSeries • 2008Orphan Black: EchoesSeries • 2024Murder in MindSeries • 2001The Bank JobMovie • 2008BodyguardSeries • 2018The Midwich CuckoosSeries • 2022Upstairs DownstairsSeries • 2010Mrs WilsonSeries • 2018That Mitchell and Webb LookSeries • 2006Miss AustenSeries • 2025