MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Creator , Executive producer
Birth name Keeley Clare Julia Hawes
British nationality
Birth February 10, 1976 (London)
BIOGRAPHY
Keeley Hawes was born and raised in London. In high school, she was approached by a modeling agency who offered her her first fashion contract. This experience allowed her to work for Cosmopolitan a few months later, and to obtain a scholarship thanks to which she enrolled in an independent theater school.
From 1989, Keeley Hawes made her mark by appearing in numerous British detective series. If she is simply passing through Forever Green , Inspector Wexford and Pie in the Sky , the young Londoner also lands a few regular contracts which help her to make herself known to the English public: teenager involved in a criminal case for Troublemakers , actress in film in Karaoke , and the daughter of a body snatcher in The Mutual Friend , based on the novel of the same name by Charles Dickens .
After ten years on the small screen, Keeley Hawes made her film debut in Bowler Hat and Leather Boots , worn by Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman and adapted from the famous series of the same name broadcast in the 1960s. character of Tamara, an agent of Sir August ( Sean Connery ). Subsequently, the actress continued to film mainly for television with increasingly significant roles. In turn, Keeley Hawes plays an investigator in MI-5 , an unfaithful woman in Mutual Friends , or even a countess in Masters and Jacks . But it was for the BBC One soap opera, Ashes to Ashes , that she landed a leading role for the first time. Her interpretation of Alex Drake, an expert in profiling, allowed her to be crowned best actress in a British series at the 2008 Glamor Awards.
In parallel with her television career, Keeley Hawes tried her hand at dubbing and became the voice of Lara Croft in the world of video games, replacing Jonell Elliott . The actress also plays in several feature films, including Happy Funeral , English Heist and High-Rise , which gives her the opportunity to work with recognized British actors such as Jason Statham , Peter Dinklage and Tom Hiddleston . She nevertheless remains much more active on the small screen and from 2014 to 2016, she takes up a role as an investigator in the series Line of Dutywhich earned him a nomination for the British Academy Television Awards.
In 2018, Keeley Hawes joined the cast of the thriller miniseries, Bodyguard , as Julia Montague, a powerful neo-conservative Secretary of State, protected by Sergeant David Budd ( Richard Madden ), a war veteran. Added to the Netflix catalog at the end of 2018, the program is very successful and offers the actress even more visibility. At the same time, she continued her rise on the small screen by playing the real personality and heroine of the Corfu Trilogy, Louisa Durell, in the adaptation The Mad Adventure of the Durells , and returned to the world of MI-5 with Summer of Rockets , where she plays a mysterious aristocrat.
In 2020, seven years after High-Rise , Keeley Hawes collaborated again with director Ben Wheatley in the Netflix film, Rebecca , adapted from the work of Daphné du Maurier . She lends her features to the character of Béatrice Lacy, the older sister of the hero here played by Armie Hammer . The same year, she appeared alongside Keira Knightley in Miss Revolution , a historical comedy about the beauty pageants of the 1970s. She was also announced in the casting of It’s a sin , a historical-dramatic series about the discovery of AIDS in the 1980s England, with Neil Patrick Harris .