Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes | |
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 Keeley Hawes, April 2008 | |
| Born | Clare Julia Hawes 10 February 1976 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1989–present |
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Keeley Hawes (born Clare Julia Hawes; 10 February 1976) is an English actress and model, who has appeared in many television roles since 1989. She played Zoe Reynolds in Spooks (2002–04), Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes (2008–10) and Lady Agnes in the remake of Upstairs, Downstairs (2010–2012).[1] Hawes has also voiced various roles in video games, such as the iconic Lara Croft from the long-running Tomb Raider series.
Early life
Hawes was born in Marylebone, London, and is the daughter of a London cab driver. She was trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, which included ten years of elocution lessons.[2] Hawes left home at age 17 and worked in a casino until she was spotted by a modelling scout on Oxford Street and signed up by Select until she was cast in Karaoke in 1996.[3]
Acting career
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.
Television
Hawes first came into the public eye in the 1990s, having supporting roles in Troublemakers, Dennis Potter's Karaoke (BBC One/Channel 4, 1995), Heartbeat (ITV1, 1995), The Beggar Bride (BBC, 1997), and as the young Diana Dors in the biopic, The Blonde Bombshell (ITV, 1999).
Hawes has appeared in several adaptations of classic and modern literature: Our Mutual Friend (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Tipping the Velvet (BBC Two, 2002), and Under the Greenwood Tree (2005).
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 and eventual husband. 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 hit BBC series 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 that year.
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, 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, Hawes narrated the documentary "Kate and William: A Royal Love Story." on BBC One, in honour of the 29 April 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]
Most recently she appeared in the fantasy adventure film Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box[4] throughout South West England, playing the role of Catherine Mundi.
Video 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.
Personal life
Hawes began a relationship with cartoonist Spencer McCallum in 1995, and married him in December 2001 in Westminster when their son Myles was 20 months old.[5] They separated in 2004, when Hawes started a relationship with her Spooks co-star Matthew Macfadyen.[6] She married Macfadyen in November 2004 in the Richmond-upon-Thames Register Office, and their first child, daughter Maggie, was born two months later.[7] Their second child, son Ralph, was born in September 2006.[8]
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.[9][10] 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"[11] 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."[12]
Along with her husband, Hawes is a patron of CHASE hospice care for children.[13] In 2009, she filmed a video introduction and recorded voiceovers for a Virtual Tour of Christopher's, the CHASE Children's Hospice in Surrey.[14] The couple are also both patrons of the Lace Market Theatre in Nottingham.
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| Forever Green | Carol | (Season 1, Episode 3) | |
| Troublemakers | Mandy | (Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode 6) | |
| Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Sarah Mabledene | (Season 6, Episode 12) Talking to Strange Men | |
| 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 | |
| The Beggar Bride | Angela Harper | ||
| Our Mutual Friend | Lizzie Hexam | (Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode 4 ) | |
| The Cater Street Hangman | Charlotte Ellison | ||
| The Blonde Bombshell | Younger Diana Dors | ||
| Wives and Daughters | Cynthia Kirkpatrick | (Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode 4 ) | |
| Hotel! | Tricia | ||
| Murder in Mind | Deborah | (Season 1, Episode 7) Sleeper | |
| Othello | Dessie Brabant | ||
| 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) | |
| Lucky Jim | Christine Callaghan | ||
| The Canterbury Tales | Emily | ||
| Sex & Lies | Kate | ||
| The Murdoch Mysteries | Dr. Julia Ogden | (Season 1, Episode 1 and Episode 2) | |
| ShakespeaRe-Told | Ella Macbeth | (Season 1, Episode 2) | |
| Agatha Christie's Marple | Philippa Haymes | ||
| Under the Greenwood Tree | Fancy Day | ||
| The Best Man | Kate Sheldrake | ||
| After Thomas | Nicola Graham | ||
| The Vicar of Dibley | Rosie Kennedy | (Season 5, Episode 1) | |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Rosie Kennedy | (Season 5, Episode 2) | |
| Ashes to Ashes | DI Alex Drake | Series 1 | |
| Mutual Friends | Jen | Series 1 | |
| Ashes to Ashes | DI Alex Drake | Series 2 | |
| 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[15] | New Series 1 (3 eps) | |
| Kate & William: A Royal Love Story | Narrator | Documentary on the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton | |
| Four Of A Kind | Narrator | ||
| Upstairs, Downstairs | Lady Agnes Holland | New Series 2 (6 eps) | |
| The Lady Vanishes | Mrs Todhunter | BBC Television Drama 90 minute special | |
| The Tunnel | Suze Harcourt | Series 1 | |
| Line of Duty | DI Lindsay Denton | Series 2 (6 eps) |
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| 2013 | Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box | Catherine Mundi | post-production |
Video games
| Year | Title | Voice | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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.[16]
References
- ^ "Upstairs Downstairs axed by the BBC after two series". BBC News. 23 April 2012.
- ^ "Mullen, Lost Voices". Phon.ucl.ac.uk. 18 June 1999. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
- ^ Angela Wintle (October 2010). "Ashes to Ashes star Keeley Hawes on co-stars, Surrey life and hitting the big time". Surrey Life. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
- ^ Adam Dawtrey (11 April 2012). http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118052510. Variety Article. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
- ^ Alison Boshoff (22 February 2008). "The very bizarre love life of Ashes to Ashes' rising star Keeley Hawes". London: Daily Mail. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
- ^ Liz Hoggard (11 March 2006). "Keeley Hawes: Life after Spooks". London: The Independent. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
- ^ Liz Hoggard (1 April 2010). "Ashes to Ashes star Keeley Hawes on surviving a showbiz marriage". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
- ^ "Matthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes welcome second child". People.com. 11 January 2007. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
- ^ Czyzselska, Jana (1 October 2002). "Dyke Drama". Diva. Retrieved 13 December 2007.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ^ browne (3 March 2008). "Keeley Hawes: still delectable, but bisexual". AfterEllen.com. Retrieved 29 April 2010.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|newspaper=(help) - ^ Rebecca Younger (23 December 2009). "Charity brings Christmas magic to CHASE children". Get Surrey. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
- ^ Helen Barrett (23 September 2009). "Digital Campaign of the Week: Chase Hospice Care for Children". Third Sector. Retrieved Junbe 3, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Hastings, Chris (25 July 2010). "What WOULD Mrs Bridges think? Upstairs, Downstairs is back... with Keeley Hawes". Daily Mail. London.
- ^ Allen, Kate (7 September 2009). "Coben, Cole, Atkinson vie for crime awards". The Bookseller. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
External links
- Keeley Hawes at IMDb
- Keeley Hawes page on the official BBC Spooks site, including an interview.
- Ashes to Ashes Interview
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- People from Marylebone
- Alumni of the Sylvia Young Theatre School
- English female models
- 20th-century English actresses
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- Actresses from London