Name	Keeley Hawes
Height	5' 9
Naionality	British
Date of Birth	1977,
Place of Birth	London, England, UK
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Keeley Hawes is a British actor, best known for her role as MI5 agent Zoe Reynolds in the BBC television drama series Spooks / MI5.

Keeley grew up in Marleybone across the road from the famous Sylvia Young Theatre School. She would frequently hear the students singing and decided to attend for the fun of it. Keeley attended school on a free grant and became friends with Baby Spice Girl, Emma Bunton. She took elocution lessons as part of the school curriculum.


Keeley began her career by being spotted at the age of 16 walking in Oxford Street in London by an agent who inquired if she modeled. She began her modeling career from that point on and continued for nearly eighteen months. Keeley did not enjoy modeling, referring to it “as a bit scummy”. She instead became a fashion assistant for Cosmopolitan. But her passion was always acting and when a TV exec saw a picture from her modeling days she was cast in the penultimate Dennis Potter TV adaptation Karaoke (1996) with Albert Finney. This role was also memorable for her scenes of sexual contortion with Richard E. Grant.

She then landed roles in The Beggar Bride (1997), and the movie The Avengers (1998), as Sean Connery’s secretary. In the intervening years, she became known for doing Victorian costume dramas. But she rose to prominence when she portrayed Diana Dors in The Blonde Bombshell (1999). For the role she had to gain 15 pounds. As a model, Keeley learned to be comfortable with her body and accepted the controversial role of a lesbian in Tipping the Velvet (2002). But Keeley played her most prominent undercover role as Zoe Reynolds from Spooks/MI5 during series one through three (2002 - 2004). It was here that she met and married her husband, Matthew.

Keeley is also known as the voice of Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend in 2006. She has reprised this voice portrayal for the 2007 release of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary, a remake of the original Tomb Raider game. She has also provided the voice of Maid Marion in the computer game Robin Hood’s Quest, also released in 2007.

She enjoyed playing the on-screen wife of real-life husband, Matthew Macfadyen, in Death at a Funeral, which is to be released in the United States in June 2007. It is a comedy involving the the chaos that ensues when a dark secret is threatened to be revealed among a dysfunctional family at the funeral of patriarch.

Her most current project is a Hollywood movie called The Bank Job which is based on the true story of the 1971 Baker Street bank robbery which was prevented from being told for over thirty years because of a Government gagging order. The real story of how one of the biggest robberies in British history took place with no arrests ever made nor money ever recovered. It is currently in production and is scheduled to be released cinematically in 2008.

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