KEELEY HAWES

'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 trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School which included some ten years of elocution lessons.^[1] She has a son, Myles, with cartoonist Spencer McCallum, whom she married in 2002 when Myles was 20 months old. They separated eight weeks later, however, when Keeley fell in love with Spooks co-star Matthew Macfadyen. She married Macfadyen on 2 October 2004 and their first child together, Maggie, was born 2 months later in December. Their second child, Ralph, 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 '', now under the reins of Crystal Dynamics. She reprised her role in the 2007 remake of the original Tomb Raider game, .
She was recently cast as DCI Alex Drake in the new spin-off series of ''Life on Mars'', ''Ashes to Ashes''. ^[2] 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 is turning into a bit of a disaster with a drugged naked man on the roof and a gay blackmailer threatening to divulge a side of the dead patriarch that no one expected to find.

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1. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/mullan.htm
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/07_july/03/ashes.shtml

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★ Keeley Hawes page on the official BBC ''Spooks'' site, including an interview.

★ Spooks star in Life on Mars sequel