Keeley Hawes

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Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes 2008
Born	Claire Hawes 10 February 1976 (1976-02-10) (age 33) London, England, UK
Years active	1989–present
Spouse(s)	Spencer McCallum (2001-02) Matthew Macfadyen (2004-present)

Keeley Hawes (born 10 February 1976)^[1] is a British-English actress, known for many television roles, notably that of Zoe Reynolds in the BBC One drama series Spooks (2002-04).

Hawes first came into the public eye in the early 1990s, in 1990s Troublemakers and the 1992 BBC costume drama, The Moonstone. She has since appeared in many other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's Karaoke (BBC One/Channel 4, 1995), and Othello (ITV, 2001). She played the young Diana Dors in the ITV biopic Blonde Bombshell (1999) and Nicola Graham in the ITV drama After Thomas (2006). She is in her second series as DI Alex Drake in the BBC drama series Ashes to Ashes (2008-present), the sequel to Life on Mars, and is also currently the face of Boots No 7 cosmetics (2008).^[2]

Hawes is also known for voicing the video game character Lara Croft since the 2006 release of Tomb Raider: Legend. In 2008, she was nominated for a Spike Video Game Award for Best Performance By A Human Female.^[3]

Contents 1 Early life 2 Acting career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Television 4.2 Film 4.3 Video games 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Early life

Hawes was born in Marylebone, London, England. The daughter of a London cab driver, she was trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, which included ten years of elocution lessons.^[4]

[edit] Acting career

Hawes has appeared in several successful adaptations of classic and modern novels, including Tipping the Velvet (BBC Two, 2002), Wives and Daughters (1999), Our Mutual Friend (1998), and Under the Greenwood Tree (2005).

Her films include The Avengers (1998), The Last September, Complicity (2000) and A Cock and Bull Story (2006), and two music videos, for the singles "Saturday Night" by Suede, and "She's a Star" by James.

On 23 February 2006, it was revealed that Hawes had replaced Jonell Elliott as the voice of Lara Croft. She voiced the role of Eidos Interactive's globe-trotting adventurer in Tomb Raider: Legend, now under the reins of Crystal Dynamics. She reprised her role in the 2007 remake of the original Tomb Raider game, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, and again in 2008's Tomb Raider: Underworld.

In the Vicar of Dibley (2 episodes 2006-07), she played Rosie, the sister of Harry (Richard Armitage), who eventually marries Geraldine (Dawn French).

She was also cast as Jane in the 2007 comedy Death at a Funeral, where she plays the supportive wife of her off-screen husband Matthew Macfadyen, whose father's funeral turns into a disaster.

In 2008, Hawes starred in the film Flashbacks of a Fool with Daniel Craig, where she plays the adult version of his younger sister, Jessie. In September 2008, she began filming the second series of Ashes to Ashes, for which Glamour Magazine presented Hawes with the Best Television Actress award at the Woman of the Year Awards for 2008. She was also nominated for a TV Choice Award for the same role.

Hawes has signed up to play DSI Martha Lawrence in the new six-part ITV series Identity.

[edit] Personal life

Hawes has a son, Myles, with cartoonist Spencer McCallum, whom she married in December 2001 in Westminster when Myles was 20 months old. They separated eight weeks later, when Hawes started a relationship with Spooks co-star Matthew Macfadyen. Hawes described her divorce as ‘horrific – up there with death as one of the worst things that can happen’, she now recalls that episode saying, ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ ^[5] She married Macfadyen on 8 October 2004 in the Richmond-upon-Thames Register's Office, and their first child, Maggie, was born two months later. Their second child, Ralph, was born in September 2006.

In 2002, after working on the TV version of Tipping the Velvet, Hawes stated in interviews with Diva magazine^[6] and The Radio Times^[7] that she is bisexual. Later, in a Radio Times magazine article, she commented upon this, saying, "Maybe what I meant is that everyone is a little bit bisexual. I’ve been married twice—both times to men."

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Television

• Forever Green (1989), Carol
• Troublemakers (1990), Mandy
• Talking to Strange Men (1992), Sarah Mabledene
• The Moonstone (1996), Rachel Verinder
• Cold Lazarus (1996), Linda Langer
• Pie in the Sky (1996), Stella Jackson
• Karaoke (1996), Linda Langer
• Heartbeat (1996), Michelle
• The Beggar Bride (1997), Angela Harper
• Our Mutual Friend (1998), Lizzie Hexam
• The Cater Street Hangman (1998), Charlotte Ellison
• The Blonde Bombshell (1999), Younger Diana Dors
• Wives and Daughters (1999), Cynthia Kirkpatrick
• Hotel! (2001), Tricia
• Murder in Mind (2001), Deborah
• Othello (2001), Dessie Brabant
• A Is for Acid (2002), Gillian Rogers
• Me and Mrs Jones (2002), Jane
• Tipping the Velvet (2002), Kitty Butler
• Spooks (2002-04), Zoe Reynolds
• Lucky Jim (2003), Christine Callaghan
• The Canterbury Tales (2003), Emily
• Sex & Lies (2004), Kate
• The Murdoch Mysteries (2004), Dr. Julia Ogden
• ShakespeaRe-Told - Macbeth (2005), Ella Macbeth
• Marple: A Murder Is Announced (2005), Philippa Haymes
• Under the Greenwood Tree (2005), Fancy Day
• The Best Man (2006), Kate Sheldrake
• After Thomas (2006)), Nicola Graham
• The Vicar of Dibley (2 episodes 2006-2007), Rosie Kennedy
• Ashes to Ashes (2008 onwards) , Alex Drake
• Mutual Friends (2008), Jen
• Identity (2009), DSI Martha Lawrence

[edit] Film

• The Avengers (1998), Tamara
• The Last September (1999), Lois Farquar
• Complicity (2000), Yvonne
• Chaos and Cadavers (2003), Samantha Taggert
• A Cock and Bull Story (2005), Elizabeth
• Death at a Funeral (2007), Jane
• The Bank Job 2008, Wendy Leather
• Flashbacks of a Fool 2008, Adult Jessie

[edit] Video games

• Tomb Raider: Legend (2006) (voice), Lara Croft
• Tomb Raider: Anniversary (2007) (voice), Lara Croft
• Tomb Raider: Underworld (2008) (voice), Lara Croft
  • Tomb Raider: Underworld - Beneath the Ashes (2009) (voice), Lara Croft
  • Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara's Shadow (2009) (voice), Lara Croft, Doppelganger

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Keeley Hawes at the Internet Movie Database
• Keeley Hawes page on the official BBC Spooks site, including an interview.

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NAME	Hawes, Keeley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	actress
DATE OF BIRTH	1976-02-10
PLACE OF BIRTH	London, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH