Clare Julia Hawes (born 10 February 1976), known professionally as Keeley Hawes, is an English actress. After beginning her career in a number of literary adaptations, including Our Mutual Friend (1998) and Tipping the Velvet (2002), Hawes rose to fame for her portrayal of Zoe Reynolds in the BBC series Spooks (2002–2004), followed by her co-lead performance as DI Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes (2008–2010).
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The ambitious and powerful Home Secretary is assigned a new Specialist Protection Officer to keep her safe. Divorced, she lives alone in her London constituency. She is pushing forward a controversial new counter-terrorism bill (RIPA 18) which would give the security services unprecedented powers of surveillance.
And I think this role has put him very much in the spotlight for bigger things.” Despite speculation that Keeley Hawes’ character Julia Montague was not really dead, it was pretty clear by the end of series one that she definitely wasn’t coming back, leaving the way open for a new co-star.