A Lesson for Keeley Going back to school was an education for Spooks actress Keeley Hawes. Viewers last week saw MI5 officer Zoe Reynolds taking on yet another undercover role, this time as a secondary school teacher. “For her day job she was English teacher Jane. Then, in her private life, at the same time,…Continue readingManchester Evening News: A Lesson for Keeley
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I bought an inflatable bra for the Spooks audition… it did the trick No one need worry that gorgeous Scottish actress Shauna Macdonald will let her big break in the hit spy series Spooks go to her head. She doesn’t pay much attention to the hype about “fame” and people telling her “this is your…Continue readingThe Mirror: Edinburgh-born Shauna Macdonald on hitting the TV big time
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Spooks Series 1 DVD interview
Starting out: Keeley Hawes {video placeholder} I was spotted on Oxford Street and I was spotted by someone who asked me if I was a model and that was how I got into modelling, but I had been acting kind of for 10 years previously, at school at Sylvia Young’s and so the spotting bit…Continue readingSpooks Series 1 DVD interview
David Oyelowo, a Nigerian prince who stars in BBC1’s Spooks, talks about his amazing rise to fame. As intrepid MI5 officer Danny Hunter in the hit drama Spooks, David Oyelowo Oyelowo first went to drama classes since he fancied a girl who was also going. is used to leading an intriguing double life. But even…Continue readingThe Mirror: Double Life of an African Prince (David Oyelowo interview)
Undercover Lovers Keeley Hawes fell for her Spooks co-star Matthew Macfadyen last series. but will he still be smitten after seeing the disguises she had to wear for the new series of the spy drama? Spooks was a hit with viewers from the start, but news of a real-life romance between the show’s two stars…Continue readingTV Quick Magazine: Undercover Lovers
“I would make an appalling spy” At 27, Keeley Hawes’s acting career is on an upward spiral — and she is getting on famously with her co-stars. Maureen Paton meets her. Few people could live up to Kingsley Amis’s description of Lucky Jim’s dream girl in the way that Keeley Hawes can. The misogynistic old…Continue readingThe Telegraph: “I would make an appalling spy”
Up West With her Essex background, stage-school training and lad-mag appeal, it would be easy to dismiss Denise Van Outen as just another cliche. But her lightning wit, comedic gift and stage success are at last making critics sit up and take her seriously. Now Andrew Lloyd Webber has retailored a musical for her. By…Continue readingThe Telegraph: Up West (Denise Van Outen interview)
Keeley Hawes Keeley Hawes may have made her name in the Dennis Potter drama, Karaoke, but the one thing that absolutely terrified her about appearing in Tipping the Velvet was the singing! “To be honest, it was the worst thing and the best thing,” laughs the 26-year-old actor, who plays Kitty, the young male impersonator…Continue readingGaydarNation: Tipping the Velvet interview
In this exclusive interview, Keeley Hawes reveals the truth about the affair that destroyed her marriage and her starring role in this year’s most notorious drama. Life has a way of throwing up surprises,” sighs actress Keeley Hawes, and after the year she has just had, she is more than qualified to talk. As one…Continue readingLondon Evening Standard: After my traumatic love life, my lesbian sex scenes pale into insignificance
It’s been murder for Keeley Keeley Hawes’ life over the last couple of years reads like a list of stressful events which are best avoided. The model turned actress, who stars this evening with Martin Clunes in the gruesome true story drama, A is for Acid, married and then broke up with her husband within…Continue reading*Evening Times: It’s been murder for Keeley