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Keeley Hawes

Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes (born 10 February 1976) is an English actress, recognized for countless television roles, pivotally those of Zoe Reynolds in Spooks (2002-04) and Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes (2008-10). Hawes is also known for voicing the video game character Lara Croft since the 2006 release of Tomb Raider: Legend. In 2008.

Hawes first attained public recognition in the early 1990s, in Troublemakers and the BBC costume drama, The Moonstone. She has since acted in numerous television dramas, including Dennis Potter's Karaoke (1995), and Othello (2001). She played the young Diana Dors in the ITV biopic Blonde Bombshell (1999) and Nicola Graham in the ITV drama After Thomas (2006). Hawes has appeared in several successful adaptations of classic and modern novels, including Tipping The Velvet (2002), Wives and Daughters (1999), Our Mutual Friend (1998), and Under The Greenwood Tree (2005).

Her films roles include The Avengers (1998), The Last September, Complicity (2000) and A Cock and Bull Story (2006),



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  • Complicity
  • Complicity review by A customer from Birmingham, England
    Rated - 2.0 stars Started well, tailed off to confusion 9 November 2004
    ...nd with little rhyme or reason. The supporting cast is of a good standard with Keeley Hawes as an extrovert, sexually liberated mistress and the scene stealing Brian Cox a...   Read customer review
  • Spooks - Complete Season 2
  • Spooks - Complete Season 2 review by A customer from west country
    Rated - 5.0 stars slick MI5 thriller 4 August 2005
    ...e, tight series of episodes that glue you to your seat and keeps you watching. Keeley Hawes shines but the stars of this show are the writers proving that its all in the t...   Read customer review
  • Murder In Mind - Series 1
  • Murder In Mind - Series 1 review by A customer from Manchester, UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars SUPERIOR DRAMA 19 January 2006
    ...who of British Acting, Timothy West, David Suchet, Kevin Whateley, Keith Allen, Keeley Hawes, Diana Rigg and on & on. The quality of the stories is maintained throughtou...   Read customer review

Keeley Hawes - filmography


  • Identity (2 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Keeley Hawes,  Aidan Gillen,  Julian Lewis Jones
    Director: Andy Hay,  Brendan Maher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Identity, a new six-part drama starring Keeley Hawes (Ashes to Ashes; Mutual Friends) and Aidan Gillen (The Wire; Queer As Folk), follows an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity theft. From murderers who take over victims' lives and criminals who create personas to escape ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 383 members
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  • Upstairs Downstairs (2 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Keeley Hawes,  Ed Stoppard,  Anne Reid
    Director: Eros Lyn,  Saul Metzstein
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of the most loved television series is brought back to life with a stellar cast, sumptuous production values and gripping storylines, lifting the curtain on a historical era. In the summer of 1930, the Bellamy family left its home in London's Belgravia forever. In the empty house, loyal ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 631 members
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  • Under The Greenwood Tree on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Sean Arnold,  John Axon,  Sian Brooke
    Director: Nicholas Laughland
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In mid-19th century England, Fancy Day (Hawes) arrives in Mellstock and finds herself at the centre of three men's romantic intentions. Will true love win out or will the social traditions of Victorian England determine Fancy's future?
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,088 member
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  • A Cock and Bull Story on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Steve Coogan,  Rob Brydon,  Kelly MacDonald
    Director: Michael Winterbottom
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Flipping back and forth between the 18th Century and the hapless efforts of 21st Century film makers, A Cock And Bull Story is an unorthodox adaptation of Laurence Sterne's sprawling 18th Century masterpiece of digression, The Life And Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman. The story begins with ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 24,580 members
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  • Tipping The Velvet on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Keeley Hawes,  Rachael Stirling,  John Bowe
    Director: Geoffrey Sax
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    TIPPING THE VELVET is a slightly raunchy drama from the BBC that more than anything is a passionate love story between two Victorian women. Set in the 1890s, it follows the rise of Kity Butler, a male impersonator in the musical halls and her devoted dresser Nan. When Kitty ends their affair, Nan ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,940 members
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  • Complicity on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Jonny Lee Miller,  Valerie Edmond,  Keeley Hawes
    Director: Gavin Millar
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Newspaper Reporter Cameron Colley, having built his professional reputation on stories dealing with corruption and the underworld, is drawn into a web of deceit and murder when a serial killer begins a rampage. Elaborately staged deaths await victims who all have one thing in common -- they are ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,168 member
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  • The Cater Street Hangman (1998)
    Starring: Eoin McCarthy,  Keeley Hawes,  Peter Egan
    Director: Sarah Hellings
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the class-conscious world of Victorian England, the Ellison family is painfully aware of their respectable place in the comfortable London neighborhood of Cater Street. But when a young woman is garroted nearby, it is the beginning of a remarkable sequence of events that will see their world ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 20% from 4 members
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  • Moonstone on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Greg Wise,  Keeley Hawes,  Terrence Hardiman
    Director: Robert Bierman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt English army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being enormously valuable, and three Hindu priests have ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 225 members
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  • Dennis Potter's Karaoke (2 discs) on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Albert Finney,  Richard E. Grant,  Hywel Bennett
    Director: Renny Rye
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A self-destructive loaner whose battle with pancreatic cancer has left him embittered and in great pain, Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney) decides to focus his attention on a new screenplay entitled 'Karaoke'. A lurid tale concerning the murder of a young girl working in a seedy karaoke bar, the story ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 89 members
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Keeley Hawes facts

5 most recent films

Upstairs Downstairs - Series 2 - 3.0 stars
Identity - 3.0 stars
Ashes to Ashes - S03 E06 - 3 stars
Ashes to Ashes - S03 E05 - 3 stars
Ashes to Ashes - Complete BBC Series 3 - 4.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Ashes to Ashes - Complete BBC Series 3 - 4.5 stars
Ashes to Ashes - Complete BBC Series 2 - 4.5 stars
Ashes to Ashes - Complete BBC Series 1 - 4.0 stars
Spooks - Complete Season 3 - 4.0 stars
Spooks - Complete Season 2 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Cater Street Hangman - 1.5 stars
The Last September - 3.0 stars
A Cock and Bull Story - 2.5 stars
Complicity - 3.0 stars
Moonstone - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Philip Glenister - 63 times - show films
Dean Andrews - 63 times - show films
Marshall Lancaster - 63 times - show films
Peter Firth - 36 times - show films
Megan Dodds - 28 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Jonny Campbell - 43 times - show films
Catherine Morshead - 34 times - show films
Cilla Ware - 28 times - show films
Rob Bailey - 22 times - show films
Justin Chadwick - 22 times - show films