Transcript and Matthew’s interview: I play Jane, erm Daniel’s wife and um the daughter-in-law of Sandra, who hates Jane. [laughs] Quite why, we don’t know. I think it’s just that sort of mother-in-law, daughter-in-law love-hate type relationship.Continue readingDeath at a Funeral DVD interview
The full movie can be legally (from its distributor WYSIWYG Films) watched online for free on Blinkx or on Vimeo which I uploaded. Two young newlyweds, geeky Edward and innocent but alluring Samantha, turn up at a majestic and remote country house hotel for their honeymoon, which has been taken over by the high-spirited members…Continue readingWatch Chaos and Cadavers online
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
The whole thing has been posted on YouTube in five 15-minute episodes. “I’d worked with Art Malik about 12 years ago.” from the Upstairs Downstairs press pack interview. Hotel! was recently repeated on FIlm24 on 24 April. Air Force One, carrying the President, is forced to land not far from The Nearby Hotel and Country…Continue reading*Hotel! (Channel 5)
A children’s programme filmed in Canada and broadcast on ITV in the 1999/2000 Christmas season. A Canadian-British co-production between Catalyst Entertainment Production and Tetra Films. Interestingly, it stars Alison Pill (Queen Maud in The Pillars of the Earth) as Katy and Michael Cera as Dorry Carr. First mentioned in a Radio Times feature on Wives…Continue readingWhat Katy Did (1999)
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14630578[/vimeo] Saturday Night was shot in the Holborn underground station [Kingsway, London], the only station where filming is allowed. There’s this disused line heading to Aldwych that can be used for shooting. For the party scene, they [these party people are fanclub members] go 50 feet further down the track into the tunnel. It features…Continue readingSuede – Saturday Night
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/14630239[/vimeo] If you pay close attention to the video for Pulp’s 1995 hit Common People, you’ll spot a delicate, dark-haired girl dancing her heart out. Before she became a full-time actress, Keeley Hawes paid the rent doing pop videos. “I’m the one doing a little dance a bit further along from Sadie Frost,” she recalls.…Continue readingPulp – Common People
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/14630186[/vimeo] Released 3 April 1995. The entirety of the music video is filmed in black and white. This creates an atmosphere of mystery and anonymity as well as causing the exterior shots of the bus to contrast strongly with well lit interior shorts of the band performing. There are both performance and narrative elements to…Continue readingThe Lightning Seeds – Marvellous
An early role as Sarah Mabledene in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries 6.12 Talking to Strange Men. Aired 27 December 1992.Continue readingThe Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Keeley’s first TV role as Carol in Forever Green 1.03. Aired 12 March 1989. (Source: keeley-hawes.com)Continue readingForever Green