How We Met: Keeley Hawes and Gina Bellman Gina Bellman (right) was born in New Zealand in 1965, but came to the UK with her parents at 11. She started her acting career at the National Theatre, aged 14, before appearing in Dennis Potter’s ‘Blackeyes‘. She currently stars in the BBC comedy ‘Coupling‘. She is…Continue readingHow We Met: Keeley Hawes and Gina Bellman
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Being a spook almost as good as being Bond An MI5 team disguised as gas inspectors prepare to bug a house. They tell a neighbour there’s been a gas leak and spray gas in the air to authenticate the story. They go into their target house. “Shit, I’ve let the bloody cat out! They never…Continue readingNew Zealand Herald: Being a spook almost as good as being Bond
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The Times Magazine July 2003
A born showgirl Rather like Truman Capote’s heroine Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, life just seems to happen to the actress Keeley Hawes. The daughter of a London cabbie, Hawes grew up practically on top of Marylebone station, listening to the noise of the trains. Perhaps as an antidote to all this she enrolled…Continue readingThe Times Magazine July 2003
In real life, the FBI was never like this. WASHINGTON — Among the many differences between the Land of the Free and that Sceptred Isle is the no-holds-barred, down-and-dirty seriousness with which the Brits take their domestic security. Our FBI agents may be inching toward black leather trench coats with some of the provisions of…Continue readingChicago Tribune: In real life, the FBI was never like this
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
“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”
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
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InStyle Magazine September 2002
Secrets & Spies As her mobile trills for the umpteenth time, Keeley Hawes — one-time bodice-ripper, erstwhile celluloid spy, current tabloid favourite — checks the caller ID, blushes, calls time out on the photo shoot, and disappears into a shadowy corner of the studio. Her boyfriend [and co-star in this summer’s hit TV drama Spooks], Matthew…Continue readingInStyle Magazine September 2002
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The Daily Record: Scent of Success
Scent of Success Keeley Hawes smells, but not of cigarette smoke despite her chain-smoking throughout our interview. No. Today, despite the nicotine-stained atmosphere, Ms Hawes smells so good you could eat her.Continue readingThe Daily Record: Scent of Success