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Keeley Hawes
Born	January 1, 1977 (1977-01-01) (age 30) London, England
Spouse(s)	Spencer McCallum (2002) Matthew Macfadyen (2004 - present)

Keeley Hawes (born 1 January 1977) is an English actress, 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).

The daughter of a London cab driver, she was born in London and 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. At one point, regarding the filming of the lesbian themed Tipping the Velvet, Hawes commented that she is bisexual, but has not said anything further about her sexuality.^[2]

Her track record in adaptations of classic and modern 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.

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 reins of Crystal Dynamics. She reprised her role in the 2007 remake of the original Tomb Raider game, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary.

She was recently cast as DCI Alex Drake in the new spin-off series of Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes. ^[3] 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.

• Keeley Hawes at the Internet Movie Database
• Keeley Hawes page on the official BBC Spooks site, including an interview.
• Spooks star in Life on Mars sequel