Keeley Hawes
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 Keeley Hawes, April 2008 |
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| Born | Claire Hawes 10 February 1976 Marylebone, London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Spouse | Spencer McCallum (2001-02) Matthew Macfadyen (2004-present) |
Keeley Hawes (born 10 February 1976) is an English actress and model, known for many television roles since 1989.
She is best known for her roles as Zoe Reynolds in Spooks (2002–04) and Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes (2008–10) and Lady Agnes in the remake of Upstairs, Downstairs (2010). Hawes is also known for voicing various roles in video games, such as the iconic Lara Croft from the long-running Tomb Raider series. She is also well known for the charity work she does for CHASE hospice care for children in Surrey.
Hawes first came into the public eye in the early 1990s, in 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), Heartbeat (ITV1, 1995), The Beggar Bride (BBC, 1997), as the young Diana Dors in the biopic, The Blonde Bombshell (ITV, 1999), Othello (ITV, 2001), A Murder is Announced (ITV, 2005), ITV drama After Thomas (2006) and BBC drama Spooks. She is currently the face of Boots No 7 cosmetics and has appeared alongside David Mitchell and Robert Webb in the BAFTA award winning That Mitchell and Webb Look.[1] In 2010 she appeared in a 6-part drama for ITV called Identity as Detective Superintendent Martha Lawson; and as the leading role 'Lady Agnes Holland' in the re-launch of Upstairs, Downstairs for the BBC.
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[edit] Early life
Hawes was born Claire Julia Hawes 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.[2] Prior to leaving school, Hawes worked in a casino until she was spotted by a modelling scout on Oxford Street.[3]
[edit] Acting career
[edit] Music videos
Early on in her career, she starred in at least four music videos, for the singles "Saturday Night" by Suede, "Marvellous" by the "Lightning Seeds", "Come Around" by "The Mutton Birds" and "She's a Star" by James.
[edit] Television
Hawes has appeared in several adaptations of classic and modern novels: Tipping the Velvet (BBC Two, 2002), Wives and Daughters (1999), Our Mutual Friend (1998), and Under the Greenwood Tree (2005), to mention a few.
From 2002-04 she appeared as Zoe Reynolds in the spy series Spooks. Among her co-stars was future husband Matthew Macfadyen.
In 2003, she appeared in the BBC's re-telling of The Canterbury Tales alongside John Simm, Billie Piper and Julie Walters.
In 2006, she appeared in the long-running British comedy, Vicar of Dibley, (2 episodes 2006-07). She played Rosie, the sister of Harry (Richard Armitage), Geraldine's (Dawn French) love interest who she eventually marries. 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 2007, she was cast as Alex Drake in the Ashes to Ashes, the spin-off to the hit BBC series to Life on Mars. It told the story of a female police officer in service with London's Metropolitan Police, who, after being shot in 2008, inexplicably regains consciousness in 1981, having assimilated Sam Tyler's fantasies after being imprisoned in a coma. The series, broadcast in February 2008, follows her fighting to wake up from the world of 1981 so she can get back to the present day and save her daughter, Molly. She starred along with Philip Glenister who played the TV's iconic Gene Hunt. Hawes was awarded the "Best UK Television Actress Award" in 2008 by the Glamour Awards for her role.[citation needed] In September 2008, she began filming the second series of Ashes to Ashes, later broadcast in early 2009. In September 2009, Hawes filmed the final series of Ashes to Ashes along with Philip Glenister. The last ever episode was aired in May and gained more than seven million viewers.
In April 2008, Hawes began filming the BBC TV drama, Mutual Friends, which was then aired later in 2008.
She has also appeared in the BAFTA award winning That Mitchell and Webb Look and in 2010, was a guest on the comedy panel show Would I Lie to You? hosted by comedian Rob Brydon.[citation needed]
Hawes signed up to play DSI Martha Lawson in a new six-part ITV series, Identity.
In December 2010, Keeley Hawes starred in the 3-episode re-launch of Upstairs, Downstairs, in which she played the leading role of Lady Agnes Holland.
On 25 April 2011, Keeley Hawes narrated the documentary "Kate and William: A Royal Love Story." on BBC One, in honour of the April 29th 2011 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.[citation needed]
On 20 June 2011, Hawes narrated the ITV1 documentary "Four Of A Kind" as part of ITV's Extraordinary Families season.[citation needed]
[edit] Computer games
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. She has also recorded her lines for the arcade-style Tomb Raider game, titled Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, released in August 2010.
[edit] Personal life
Hawes has three children. She had her first son, Myles, with cartoonist Spencer McCallum, whom she started dating in 1995 and 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. She married Macfadyen on 8 October 2004 in the Richmond-upon-Thames Register Office, and their first child, Maggie, was born two months later. Their second child, Ralph, was born in September 2006.[citation needed]
In 2002, after working on the television adaptation of Tipping the Velvet, Hawes was quoted in interviews with Diva magazine and Radio Times as saying she is bisexual.[4][5] Later, in a Daily Mail article, she explained the comments, saying "[w]hat I actually said was that everybody is probably perfectly capable of finding somebody of the same sex attractive, but I certainly haven't had any lesbian relationships"[6] and in the Radio Times, "Maybe what I meant is that everyone is a little bit bisexual. I've been married twice, both times to men."[7]
Hawes is a keen supporter of CHASE hospice care for children. She filmed a video introduction and recorded voiceovers for a Virtual Tour of Christopher's, the CHASE Children's Hospice in Surrey.[citation needed]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Television
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Forever Green | Carol | (Season 1, Episode 3) |
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Troublemakers | Mandy | (Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode 6) |
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Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Sarah Mabledene | (Season 6, Episode 12) Talking to Strange Men |
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Pie in the Sky | Stella Jackson | (Season 4, Episode 1 and Episode 2) |
| Karaoke | Linda Langer | (Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode 4) Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday | |
| Heartbeat | Michelle | (Season 6, Episode 7) Snapped | |
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The Beggar Bride | Angela Harper | |
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Our Mutual Friend | Lizzie Hexam | (Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode 4 ) |
| The Cater Street Hangman | Charlotte Ellison | ||
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The Blonde Bombshell | Younger Diana Dors | |
| Wives and Daughters | Cynthia Kirkpatrick | (Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode 4 ) | |
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Hotel! | Tricia | |
| Murder in Mind | Deborah | (Season 1, Episode 7) Sleeper | |
| Othello | Dessie Brabant | ||
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A Is for Acid | Gillian Rogers | |
| Me and Mrs Jones | Jane | ||
| Tipping the Velvet | Kitty Butler | ||
| Spooks | Zoe Reynolds | (Season 1, Episode 1 - Season 3, Episode 6) | |
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Lucky Jim | Christine Callaghan | |
| The Canterbury Tales | Emily | ||
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Sex & Lies | Kate | |
| The Murdoch Mysteries | Dr. Julia Ogden | (Season 1, Episode 1 and Episode 2) | |
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ShakespeaRe-Told | Ella Macbeth | (Season 1, Episode 2) |
| Marple: A Murder Is Announced | Philippa Haymes | ||
| Under the Greenwood Tree | Fancy Day | ||
| The Best Man | Kate Sheldrake | ||
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After Thomas | Nicola Graham | |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Rosie Kennedy | (Season 5, Episode 1) | |
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The Vicar of Dibley | Rosie Kennedy | (Season 5, Episode 2) |
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Ashes to Ashes | DI Alex Drake | Series 1 |
| Mutual Friends | Jen | Series 1 | |
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Ashes to Ashes | DI Alex Drake | Series 2 |
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Identity | DSI Martha Lawson | |
| Ashes to Ashes | DI Alex Drake | Series 3 | |
| That Mitchell and Webb Look | Herself | Episode 1 | |
| Would I Lie To You? | Herself | (Series 4, Episode 3) | |
| Upstairs, Downstairs | Lady Agnes Holland[8] | Series 6 | |
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Kate & William: A Royal Love Story | Narrator | Documentary on the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton |
| Four Of A Kind | Narrator | ||
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Upstairs, Downstairs | Lady Agnes Holland | Series 7; in production |
[edit] Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1998 | The Avengers | Tamara | |
| 1999 | The Last September | Lois Farquar | |
| 2000 | Complicity | Yvonne | |
| 2003 | Chaos and Cadavers | Samantha Taggert | |
| 2005 | A Cock and Bull Story | Elizabeth | |
| 2007 | Death at a Funeral | Jane | |
| 2008 | The Bank Job | Wendy Leather | |
| Flashbacks of a Fool | Adult Jessie |
[edit] Video games
| Year | Title | Voice | Notes |
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| 2006 | Tomb Raider: Legend | Lara Croft | |
| 2007 | Tomb Raider: Anniversary | ||
| 2008 | Tomb Raider: Underworld | ||
| 2009 | Tomb Raider: Underworld - Beneath the Ashes | ||
| Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara's Shadow | Lara Croft and Doppelgänger | ||
| 2010 | Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light | Lara Croft |
[edit] Awards
Hawes was awarded the "Best UK Television Actress Award" in 2008 by the Glamour Awards for her role in Ashes to Ashes. She was also nominated for a TV Choice Award for the same role, and for the Best Actress award at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards.[9]
[edit] References
- ^ Keeley In Ads/Voiceovers 8 March 2008
- ^ "Mullen, Lost Voices". Phon.ucl.ac.uk. 1999-06-18. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/mullan.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ "Ashes to Ashes star Keeley Hawes on surviving a showbiz marriage" 1 April 2010, London Evening Standard
- ^ Czyzselska, Jana (1 October 2002). "Dyke Drama". Diva. http://www.rachael-stirling.com/press/interviews/2002/10/01/dyke-drama/. Retrieved 2007-12-13
- ^ Radio Times, Tipping the Velvet, 5–11 October 2002
- ^ Paton, Maureen (5 April 2009). "Keeley Hawes: 'There's a birth and a snog and lots of deaths'". Daily Mail (London: Associated Newspapers Ltd.). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1166402/Back-Ashes-actress-Keeley-Hawes--8216-There-8217-s-birth-snog-lots-deaths-8217.html#. Retrieved 30 April 2010
- ^ browne (3 March 2008). "Keeley Hawes: still delectable, but bisexual". AfterEllen.com. http://www.afterellen.com/blog/browne/keeley-hawes-no-longer-bi. Retrieved 29 April 2010
- ^ Hastings, Chris (25 July 2010). "What WOULD Mrs Bridges think? Upstairs, Downstairs is back... with Keeley Hawes". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1297362/Upstairs-Downstairs-new-cast.html.
- ^ Allen, Kate (7 September 2009). "Coben, Cole, Atkinson vie for crime awards". The Bookseller. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/96297-coben-cole-atkinson-vie-for-crime-awards.html. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
[edit] External links
- Keeley Hawes at the Internet Movie Database
- Keeley Hawes page on the official BBC Spooks site, including an interview.
- Ashes to Ashes Interview
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