Actress Keeley Hawes is best known for her roles in Spooks and Ashes To Ashes. She talks to Metro about her current stage play, Rocket To The Moon, the monkey in Upstairs Downstairs and her husband Matthew MacFadyen. Tell us something we don’t know about you. I’ve just started knitting again. Someone has set up…Continue reading*Metro: Keeley Hawes: ‘I didn’t mind working in McDonald’s. I love junk food’
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After TV hits including Upstairs Downstairs, Keeley Hawes talks about her first theatre role. It’s odd. When you mention Keeley Hawes to people in her profession, the word they always use is “beautiful”. Which may be true, but television is much less interested in looks for their own sake than film is. A young actress needs…Continue readingThe Telegraph: Keeley Hawes interview
Upstairs Downstairs: We meet the stars of the Christmas TV treat BBC One has dusted off and revamped the Seventies classic Upstairs Downstairs for Boxing Day, and we got a chance to find out all about it. In this show the fates of the servants “downstairs” and their masters “upstairs” are intimately linked, making for…Continue readingAOL TV: Upstairs Downstairs: We meet the stars of the Christmas TV treat
Keeley Hawes and Ed Stoppard’s stairway to heaven Hi-res and [nearly] text-free pics: Cover, pics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. His father is a world-famous playwright, hers was a London cabbie, but they make a perfect upper-crust couple in Upstairs Downstairs. Ed Stoppard and Keeley Hawes put on a show for Hermione Eyre. He looks…Continue readingLondon Evening Standard: Keeley Hawes and Ed Stoppard’s stairway to heaven
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Stella Magazine: Her Upstairs
Her Upstairs From Spooks and Ashes to Ashes to the eagerly awaited sequel to Upstairs Downstairs, Keeley Hawes is one of our classiest television actresses. She talks to Julia Llewellyn Smith about ‘mannies’, motherhood and life as Mrs Matthew Macfadyen. I’ve long nursed a huge girl-crush on Keeley Hawes. Not only has she starred in…Continue readingStella Magazine: Her Upstairs
What was it that appealed to you about working on Upstairs Downstairs? I had never seen the original series. So it was actually like getting any other script and reading it and not having an idea of what was going to be inside. I didn’t come to it with any baggage. One of the first…Continue readingBBC: Upstairs Downstairs press pack interview
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Surrey Life: Out of the Ashes
Ashes to Ashes star Keeley Hawes on co-stars, Surrey life and hitting the big time Actress Keeley Hawes set pulses racing after her first appearance in Ashes to Ashes in suspenders and a micro-mini. But in real life she’s a devoted wife to actor Matthew Macfadyen, and a mother of three. That’s why the Guildford-based…Continue readingSurrey Life: Out of the Ashes
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DVDReview Interview
Don’t have this! September 2010 issue of DVD Review magazine. NEWS INTERVIEW: ON THE COUCH Ashes To Ashes and Identity star Keeley Hawes invites us into her DVD den to watch some old Mike Leigh flicks and Flight Of The Conchords episodes. With Spooks and Ashes to Ashes under her belt, Keeley Hawes is fast…Continue readingDVDReview Interview
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This Morning TV Appearance
Keeley Hawes: Detecting a rise from the Ashes The human whirlwind and acclaimed actress talks to Metro about leaving the 1980s for an altogether more modern phenomenon in Identity.Continue readingThe Metro: Detecting a rise from the Ashes