Spooks star refused entry into the US Spooks star Keeley Hawes found herself at the sharp end of the authorities when she was refused entry into the US on a recent trip to promote the series’ DVD. Hawes had less than six months left on her passport before it expired and, under new US customs…Continue readingBroadcast Magazine: Spooks star refused entry into the US
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When in Rome (California) It’s an arcane bit of Los Angeles culture, but then Matthew Macfadyen likes to invoke the “when-in-Rome” rule. Rome in this case is Hollywood, and more specifically the Santa Monica Pier, the fabled timber-and-pilings amusement park, which reminds him of the seaside arcades in his native Britain. “Well, except the ones…Continue readingNew York Times: A Night Out With: Matthew Macfadyen
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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 bought an inflatable bra for the Spooks audition… it did the trick No one need worry that gorgeous Scottish actress Shauna Macdonald will let her big break in the hit spy series Spooks go to her head. She doesn’t pay much attention to the hype about “fame” and people telling her “this is your…Continue readingThe Mirror: Edinburgh-born Shauna Macdonald on hitting the TV big time
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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
David Oyelowo, a Nigerian prince who stars in BBC1’s Spooks, talks about his amazing rise to fame. As intrepid MI5 officer Danny Hunter in the hit drama Spooks, David Oyelowo Oyelowo first went to drama classes since he fancied a girl who was also going. is used to leading an intriguing double life. But even…Continue readingThe Mirror: Double Life of an African Prince (David Oyelowo interview)
Undercover Lovers Keeley Hawes fell for her Spooks co-star Matthew Macfadyen last series. but will he still be smitten after seeing the disguises she had to wear for the new series of the spy drama? Spooks was a hit with viewers from the start, but news of a real-life romance between the show’s two stars…Continue readingTV Quick Magazine: Undercover Lovers
“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”