Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes | |
---|---|
File:Khawes.jpg | |
Spouse | Matthew Macfadyen |
Keeley Hawes (born 1 January 1977 in London) is an English actress, best known for her role as Zoe Reynolds in the BBC One drama series Spooks (2002-2004).
She has also appeared in a number of other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's Karaoke (BBC One / Channel 4, 1995), and Othello (ITV, 2001). She also played the young Diana Dors in the ITV biopic, Blonde Bombshell (1999) and Nicola Graham in the ITV drama After Thomas (2006).
Her track record in adaptations of classic novels is also strong and includes Tipping the Velvet (BBC Two, 2002), Wives and Daughters (1999), Our Mutual Friend and Under the Greenwood Tree.
Hawes has also appeared in films such as 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.
The daughter of a London cab driver, she had ten years of elocution lessons. [1] She married cartoonist Spencer McCallum in December 2001, but they divorced in 2004. They have a son, Myles (b. 2000). She married actor Matthew Macfadyen on 8 October 2004, who played Tom Quinn with Keeley in Spooks. Their first child, daughter Maggie, was born in December 2004. Their second child was born in September 2006
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 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend, now under the reigns of Crystal Dynamics.
External links
- Keeley Hawes at IMDb
- Keeley Hawes page on the official BBC Spooks site, including an interview.