Telly drama relieves family’s amazing story of triumph over autism A Greenock family who battled to cope with autism will settle down to watch an amazing story on television this Christmas — their own. After Thomas, which stars Spooks actress Keely Hawes, Coupling‘s Ben Miles and Sheila Hancock, is the dramatisation of the Gardners’ fight…Continue reading*Evening Times: Share our Xmas tale of courage and hope
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Keeley Hawes (Wendy Leather) attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School with Spice Girl Emma Bunton, before being ‘discovered’ in London’s Oxford Street at the age of 15 and becoming a successful model. A casting agent, who had seen pictures of her in campaigns for Sisley and Benetton, asked her to audition for Dennis Potter’s Karaoke,…Continue readingMentions of Sisley and Benetton modelling campaigns
The big interview Spooks star Rupert Penry Jones is worn-out after new baby keeps him up Nerves are jangling on the set of Spooks as star Rupert takes his bad temper out on the hit TV show’s cast. He may project the image of an ultra-sophisticated MI5 agent but beneath the cool veneer Rupert Penry…Continue readingThe Daily Record: Lack of sleep is Spooky (Rupert Penry-Jones interview)
The Happy Coupling Coupling‘s Richard Coyle had an interesting first day on set with The Best Man — almost naked in a bath of milk and water, gasping for breath and surrounded by real-life paramedics. “It was a pretty hardcore way to start the shoot. In the scene my character had slashed his wrists and…Continue reading*Coventry Evening Telegraph: The Happy Coupling
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The Independent: Life After Spooks
Life After Spooks Keeley Hawes is a fine actress, a proud mother, a witty interviewee, extremely gorgeous and married to Mr Darcy (well, Matthew Macfadyen, anyway). Liz Hoggard isn’t jealous. Not a bit of it.Continue readingThe Independent: Life After Spooks
The role of the brooding Darcy in the 1995 TV version of “Pride & Prejudice” helped make Colin Firth a star. Will the big-screen remake opening tomorrow do the same for Matthew MacFadyen? The studio is banking on the chemistry between the film’s leads to bring in young filmgoers who have probably never picked up…Continue readingThe Boston Herald: Austen’s power: ‘Pride & Prejudice’ role could make Matthew MacFadyen a star
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The Observer: Leading Lady
Leading Lady After the hoo-ha over her marriage to her Spooks co-star, Keeley Hawes is back with a stunning take on Macbeth for TV and her first big British film.Continue readingThe Observer: Leading Lady
Pride and Prejudice star Matthew Macfadyen on his love for Keeley Hawes and role as pin-up Darcy. Pride and Prejudice star Matthew Macfadyen has revealed his anguish at falling for his actress wife — eight weeks after she married her first husband. The 30-year-old actor, who plays heart-throb Mr Darcy in the new film adaptation…Continue readingThe Mail on Sunday: Falling for a married woman was awful
Spooks co-stars Matthew and Keeley marry in secret, a month before their baby is due. On TV, they inhabit the shadowy world of espionage and counter-terrorism, where stealth and secrecy are paramount. But for Spooks stars Matthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes, covert tactics are not confined to the MI5 operations they recreate on the small…Continue readingThe Mail on Sunday: A Spooky wedding
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The Sun: A spy who loves me…
It’s the spy who hugged me! Matthew Macfadyen gets to grips with Spooks co-star and real-life love Keeley Hawes. Matthew, 29, and Keeley, 27 — spies Tom Quinn and Zoe Reynolds in the BBC1 drama — enjoyed a cuddle at an East London theatre. The pair plan to wed and expect their first baby together…Continue readingThe Sun: A spy who loves me…