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
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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
Keeley Hawes (Wendy Leather) attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School with Spice Girl Emma Bunton, before being ‘discovered’ in London’s Oxford Street at the age of 15 and becoming a successful model. A casting agent, who had seen pictures of her in campaigns for Sisley and Benetton, asked her to audition for Dennis Potter’s Karaoke,…Continue readingMentions of Sisley and Benetton modelling campaigns
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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
“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
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An Ex-model’s Hope for the Future
Translated from Estonian using Google Translate.Continue readingAn Ex-model’s Hope for the Future
Nick Foulkes meets the woman who can spot a potential top model at 20 paces It is a clammy afternoon in a Covent Garden office. Messy, frantic and frenetic, rows of young people toil at banks of computer screens. Imagine a high-pressure City dealing room with a slightly loopy dress-down ethos. In my suit and…Continue reading*London Evening Standard: Twenty-one years in search of the next look
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
She’s better known for playing elegant toffs, but in a remarkable transformation Keeley Hawes has captured the feisty spirit and courage of British sex siren Diana Dors. In a skin-tight dress that accentuates every curve, ruby red lipstick drawing her mouth into a full pout, her hair bleached a platinum blonde and curled into a…Continue reading**The Mirror: I binged on chips, chocolate and beer to look like Diana Dors, but I loved my fuller figure