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.

Filmography

• Falling — Anna
• Miss Austen — Cassandra Austen, Executive Producer
• The Assassin — Julie Green, Executive Producer
• Orphan Black: Echoes — Kira Manning
• 2024Scoop — Amanda Thirsk
• Stonehouse — Barbara Stonehouse
• Crossfire — Jo, Executive Producer
• The Midwich Cuckoos — Susannah Zellaby
• Finding Alice — Alice Dillon, Executive Producer, Creator
• It's a Sin — Valerie Tozer
• 2021To Olivia — Patricia Neal
• Honour — DCI Caroline Goode
• 2020Misbehaviour — Julia Morley
• 2020Rebecca — Beatrice
• Summer of Rockets — Kathleen Shaw
• Traitors — Priscilla Garrick
• Year of the Rabbit — Lydia
• Bodyguard — Julia Montague
• Mrs Wilson — Dorothy Wick
• Orangutan Jungle School — Narrator
• 2017Never Land — Sarah
• The Durrells — Louisa Durrell
• 2015Fungus The Bogeyman
• Fungus the Bogeyman — Wendy Snow
• 2015High-Rise — Ann Royal
• The Casual Vacancy — Samantha Mollison
• Inside No. 9 — Louise
• The Missing — Gemma Webster
• Ambassadors — Jennifer
• 2013The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box — Catherine Mundi
• 2013The Lady Vanishes — Laura Parmiter aka Mrs Todhunter
• The Tunnel — Suze Beaumont
• Line of Duty — Lindsay Denton
• The Hollow Crown — Queen Elizabeth
• 2011Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes — Narrator
• Identity — DSI Martha Lawson
• Upstairs Downstairs — Lady Agnes Holland
• 200810 Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective — Narrator
• Ashes to Ashes — Alex Drake
• 2008Flashbacks of a Fool — Jesse Scott
• Mutual Friends — Jen Grantham
• 2008The Bank Job — Wendy Leather
• 2007Death at a Funeral — Jane
• 2006After Thomas — Nicola Graham
• That Mitchell and Webb Look — Keeley Hawes
• 2006The Best Man — Kate Sheldrake
• 2005A Cock and Bull Story — Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes
• Doctor Who — Ms Delphox
• ShakespeaRe-Told — Ella Macbeth
• 2005ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth — Ella Macbeth
• 2005Under The Greenwood Tree — Fancy Day
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Phillipa Haymes
• The Murdoch Mysteries — Dr. Julia Ogden
• 2004The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying — Dr. Julia Ogden
• 2004The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold — Dr. Julia Ogden
• Canterbury Tales — Emily
• 2003Chaos and Cadavers — Samantha Taggert
• 2003Lucky Jim — Christine Callaghan
• 2003Me & Mrs. Jones — Jane
• 2002A Is for Acid — Gillian Rogers
• Spooks — Zoe Reynolds
• Tipping the Velvet — Kitty Butler
• 2001Hotel! — Tricia
• Murder in Mind — Deborah
• 2001Othello — Dessie Brabant
• 2000Complicity — Yvonne
• 2000The Last September — Lois Farquar
• The Blonde Bombshell — Diana Fluck / Diana Dors
• Wives and Daughters — Cynthia Kirkpatrick
• Our Mutual Friend — Elizabeth 'Lexie' Hexam
• 1998The Avengers — Tamara
• 1998The Cater Street Hangman — Charlotte Ellison
• 1997The Beggar Bride — Angela Harper
• The Beggar Bride — Angela Harper
• Cold Lazarus — Linda Langer
• Karaoke — Linda Langer
• 1996The Moonstone — Rachel Verinder
• Pie in the Sky — Stella Jackson
• Heartbeat — Michelle
• Troublemakers — Mandy Harper
• Forever Green — Carol
• Tricky Business — Arabella
• Upstairs, Downstairs

Appearances as themselves (15)

• Airborne — Self - Narrator
• 2019What The Durrells Did Next — Herself - Host
• 2018The Coronation — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Doctor Who Extra — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• 2011Kate and William: A Royal Love Story — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2009The Making of... Ashes to Ashes — Herself
• The Story of the Costume Drama — Herself - Narrator
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• Would I Lie to You? — Self
• The One Show — Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self - Guest
• Richard & Judy — Self
• This Morning — Self - Guest
• An Audience with... — Self