Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawesis an English actress and former model. She stars in film version of The Last Septemberand has voiced roles in video games, such as Lara Croft in several of the Tomb Raider games. She is also known for her roles as Kitty Butler in Tipping the Velvet, Zoe Reynolds in Spooks, Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes, and Lady Agnes in the 2010–12 remake of Upstairs, Downstairs. She stars in the second and third series of the BBC Two...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth10 February 1976
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We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me.
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When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.
Yes, I'm anal. I am just really organised.
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Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life.
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My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.
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Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can't control.
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I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.
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It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life.
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Botox and other fillers make everybody look the same, with the big cheekbones where they fill you up. It's much cheaper to have a fringe - it takes years off everybody.
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There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.
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It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.
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Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.
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I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset.
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I went on two holidays as a child. It wasn't what people did where I grew up.