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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I love fashion; I adore it. I love the madness of it.
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I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.
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I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.
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I worked in McDonald's, but I didn't mind it. You got free cheeseburgers. I love eating a bit of junk food.
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I love washing, hoovering, ironing, you name it. I find it very therapeutic.
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I've nothing against stay-at-home mums, but I love going to work, I love what I do and I wouldn't want to start resenting my home life if I was staying home 365 days a year.
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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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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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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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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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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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Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life.
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When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.
posh
There are lots of actors who are posh and stick with that, and there are lots of actors who are cockney, and that's what they do. That's fine, but I don't think that could be said about me.