Keeley Clare Julia Hawes is an English actress, born in London and educated at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. She began her career in a number of literary adaptations, including Our Mutual Friend, Wives and Daughters, Tipping the Velvet, and The Canterbury Tales. She portrayed Zoe Reynolds in the BBC espionage drama series Spooks from 2002 to 2004, followed by her co-lead performance as DI Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes, for which she won a Glamour Award. She played leading roles in the 2010 revival of Upstairs, Downstairs, the limited series The Casual Vacancy, The Missing, and the ITV comedy-drama The Durrells.