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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The pictures posted in News of the World are in no way recently taken. They’re reprinted by various tabloids nearly every time Keeley Hawes is in a new TV role — Spooks, Tipping the Velvet, Ashes to Ashes, and now, Upstairs Downstairs. This was originally for the January 1997 issue of German Vogue. The one…Continue readingNews of the World: Well-heeled Keeley Unpeeled
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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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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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
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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
“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)
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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The Scotsman: School’s Out
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