So Keen on Keeley One-time model Keeley Hawes got her break in Dennis Potter’s Karaoke. She’s since proved herself by playing roles as diverse as a young Diana Dors and a hard-hearted, corseted minx in Wives and Daughters. She talks to us about being a mum and her latest roles — as a spy and…Continue readingThe Sunday Mirror: Question Time
School’s Out At first glance, Keeley Hawes doesn’t look like your average Surrey housewife. She stands five foot 10 inches tall without shoes, and strides languidly across the room, her walk the legacy of modelling as a teenager. Her beautiful, angular face creases into fits of infectious giggles every few minutes. Right now, Keeley, 25,…Continue readingThe Scotsman: School’s Out
Cold Call Keeley Hawes, 24, star of Wives and Daughters and Our Mutual Friend, returns to the small screen to play Desdemona in a modern-day Othello on ITV on December 23. She lives in Surrey with her boyfriend, Spencer, and their 16-month-old son, Myles. Alan Jackson: A graduate of the Sylvia Young school of wannabe…Continue readingThe Times Magazine: Cold Call
Keeley Hawes It’s not often that a woman who’s just had a baby admits that she mistook her labour pains for hunger pangs, but that’s exactly what happened to Keeley Hawes. When things started stirring down below, as it were, instead of heading for the hospital — where, ironically, she’d just been for a check…Continue readingSunday Mirror: “I went to hospital with a Filet-o-Fish and came out with a baby boy”
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“I’d rather see sex on screen than violence” Keeley Hawes says co-star Jonny Lee Miller ‘kept a little pair of pants on’ while filming their sex scenes in Complicity. Keeley Hawes has achieved the impossible — she was so sexy in a love scene with co-star Jonny Lee Miller that she made him blush. The…Continue readingNow Magazine: “I’d rather see sex on screen than violence”
Keeley, the reluctant temptress It doesn’t come easy trying to imagine Keeley Hawes, gamine young star of steamy period dramas such as the BBC’s Wives and Daughters and heavily cleavaged ones such as the Diana Dors biopic Blonde Bombshell, sitting at home knitting. She says that her sister has to cast off for her —…Continue reading**London Evening Standard: Keeley, the reluctant temptress
The Last September? In this coming May’s The Last September, a studied but sensuous look at Ireland’s last days under British rule in 1920, Keeley Hawes proves herself a seductive new screen talent as an innocent wild child with a Louise Brooks bob and a sexual energy she barely comprehends. This daughter of a Cockney…Continue readingInterview Magazine February 2000
Costume Drama Queen Keeley Hawes stars in another period piece, but the taxi driver’s daughter is more than happy to keep pulling on the corsets, she tells Ben Atherton. Sunday night is shaping up to be Battle of the Costume Dramas night. While ITV weighs in with Alan Bleasdale’s convention-busting Oliver Twist, the BBC is…Continue readingThe Evening News: Costume Drama Queen
A New Wives TaleContinue readingRadio Times: Wives and Daughters feature
