Keeley Hawes born 10 February 1976 is an English actress born in London and educated at the Sylvia Young Theatre School She began her career in a number of literary adaptations including Our Mutual Friend 1998 Wives and Daughters 1999 Tipping the Velvet 2002 and The Canterbury Tales 2003 She portrayed Zoe Reynolds in the BBC espionage drama series Spooks from 2002 to 2004 followed by her colead performance as Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes 20082010 for which she won a Glamour Award She played leading roles in the 2010 revival of Upstairs Downstairs the limited series The Casual Vacancy 2015 The Missing 2016 and the ITV comedydrama The Durrells 20162019 Hawes was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her performance in Jed Mercurios police procedural Line of Duty as DI Lindsey Denton She teamed again with Mercurio for the 2018 thriller Bodyguard in which she played Home Secretary Julia Montague Hawes has also appeared in films including Death at a Funeral 2007 and HighRise 2015 and she provided the voice of Lara Croft in a series of Tomb Raider video games
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