Early life and education

Hawes was born in Marylebone, London, the daughter of a cab driver. She was trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, which included ten years of elocution lessons. She left home at age 17 and worked in a casino until she was spotted by a modelling scout on Oxford Street and signed up by Select.

Career

Early on in her career, Hawes starred in at least four music videos, for the singles "Saturday Night" by Suede, "Marvellous" by The Lightning Seeds, "Come Around" by The Mutton Birds, and "She's a Star" by James. She first came into the public eye in the 1990s, having supporting roles in Troublemakers, Dennis Potter's Karaoke (1995), Heartbeat (1995), The Beggar Bride (1997), and as the young Diana Dors in the biopic, The Blonde Bombshell (1999).

Hawes appeared in several adaptations of classic and modern literature: Our Mutual Friend (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Tipping the Velvet (2002), and Under the Greenwood Tree (2005). From 2002 to 2004, she appeared as Zoe Reynolds in the spy drama series Spooks. Among the co-stars was her future husband Matthew Macfadyen. In 2003, she appeared in the BBC's re-telling of The Canterbury Tales. From 2006 to 2007, she appeared as Rosie in the British comedy Vicar of Dibley. She was also cast as Jane in the 2007 comedy Death at a Funeral. In February 2006, it was revealed that Hawes had replaced Jonell Elliott as the voice of Lara Croft. She voiced the role in Tomb Raider: Legend, reprising her role in the 2007 remake of the original Tomb Raider game, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, and again in 2008's Tomb Raider: Underworld. She has also recorded her lines for the arcade-style Tomb Raider game Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, released in 2010. She returned to voice Lara again in Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light sequel Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, released in 2014.

In 2007, Hawes was cast as Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes, the spin-off to the hit BBC series Life on Mars. It told the story of a female police officer in service with London's Metropolitan Police, who, after being shot in 2008, inexplicably regains consciousness in 1981, having assimilated Sam Tyler's fantasies after being imprisoned in a coma. The series, broadcast in 2008, follows her fighting to wake up from the world of 1983 so she can get back to the present day and save her daughter. She was awarded the Best UK Television Actress Award in 2008 by the Glamour Awards for her role. In September 2009, Hawes filmed the final series. The finale aired in May and gained over seven million viewers.

In April 2008, Hawes began filming the BBC drama Mutual Friends, which aired later that year. She appeared in the BAFTA award winning That Mitchell and Webb Look, and in 2010, was a guest on the comedy panel show Would I Lie to You?. In 2009, she portrayed Det Supt Martha Lawson in a six episode ITV series, Identity. In December 2010, she starred as Lady Agnes Holland in the three episode relaunch of Upstairs, Downstairs.

On 25 April 2011, Hawes narrated the documentary Kate and William: A Royal Love Story on BBC One, prior to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. On 20 June 2011, she narrated the ITV1 documentary Four of a Kind as part of ITV's Extraordinary Families season. She appeared as Catherine Mundi in the fantasy adventure film Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box. In 2014, she starred as Detective Inspector Lindsay Denton on the second series of the BBC Two drama Line of Duty. In the autumn of 2014 she guest starred as Ms. Delphox in the eighth series of Doctor Who.

Personal life

Hawes married the cartoonist Spencer McCallum in December 2001; their son was 20 months old. They divorced in 2004. In November 2004 Hawes married Matthew Macfadyen her Spooks co-star. Their first child, a daughter, was born two months later. Their second child, a son, was born in September 2006.

In 2002, after working on the television adaptation of Tipping the Velvet, Hawes was quoted in interviews with Diva magazine and Radio Times as saying that she is bisexual. Later, in a Daily Mail article, she explained that "what I actually said was that everybody is probably perfectly capable of finding somebody of the same sex attractive, but I certainly haven't had any lesbian relationships", and in the Radio Times, she said "maybe what I meant is that everyone is a little bit bisexual. I've been married twice, both times to men".

Along with her husband, Hawes is a patron of CHASE hospice care for children. In 2009, she filmed a video introduction and recorded voiceovers for a Virtual Tour of Christopher's, the CHASE Children's Hospice in Surrey. The couple are also both patrons of the Lace Market Theatre in Nottingham.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	The Moonstone	Rachel	Television film
1998	The Avengers	Tamara
1999	The Last September	Lois Farquar
2000	Complicity	Yvonne
2001	Othello	Dessie Brabant	Television film
2003	Chaos and Cadavers	Samantha Taggert
2005	A Cock and Bull Story	Elizabeth
2007	Death at a Funeral	Jane
2008	The Bank Job	Wendy Leather
	Flashbacks of a Fool	Adult Jessie
2013	Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box	Catherine Mundi
2015	High-Rise	Ann Royal

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Forever Green	Carol	Season 1, episode 3
1990	Troublemakers	Mandy	6 episodes
1992	Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Sarah Mabledene	Episode: "Talking to Strange Men"
1996	Pie in the Sky	Stella Jackson	2 episodes
	Karaoke	Linda Langer	Episode: "Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday"
	Heartbeat	Michelle	Episode: "Snapped"
1997	The Beggar Bride	Angela Harper
1998	Our Mutual Friend	Lizzie Hexam	4 episodes
	The Cater Street Hangman	Charlotte Ellison
1999	The Blonde Bombshell	Younger Diana Dors
	Wives and Daughters	Cynthia Kirkpatrick	4 episodes
2001	Hotel!	Tricia
	Murder in Mind	Deborah	Episode: "Sleeper"
2002	A Is for Acid	Gillian Rogers
	Me and Mrs Jones	Jane
	Tipping the Velvet	Kitty Butler
	Spooks	Zoe Reynolds
2003	Lucky Jim	Christine Callaghan
	The Canterbury Tales	Emily
2004	Sex & Lies	Kate
	The Murdoch Mysteries	Dr. Julia Ogden	2 episodes
2005	ShakespeaRe-Told	Ella Macbeth	Episode: "Macbeth"
	Agatha Christie's Marple	Philippa Haymes	Episode: "A Murder Is Announced"
	Under the Greenwood Tree	Fancy Day
	The Best Man	Kate Sheldrake
2006	After Thomas	Nicola Graham
	The Vicar of Dibley	Rosie Kennedy	2 episodes (2006-2007)
2008-2010	Ashes to Ashes	DI Alex Drake	Series Regular
2009	Mutual Friends	Jen
2010	Identity	DSI Martha Lawson
2010-2012	Upstairs, Downstairs	Lady Agnes Holland	Regular Cast
2013	The Lady Vanishes	Mrs Todhunter	Television film
	The Tunnel	Suze Harcourt
	Ambassadors	Jennifer
2014-2016	Line of Duty	DI Lindsay Denton	Main Cast
2014	Doctor Who	Ms Delphox/Madame Karabraxos	Episode: "Time Heist"
2015	The Casual Vacancy	Samantha Mollison	Regular Cast
2016	Fungus The Bogeyman	Wendy Snow	Sky 1 mini series
	The Hollow Crown	Queen Elizabeth	2 episodes
	The Durrells	Louisa Durrell	Main Cast
	The Missing	Gemma Webster	Main Cast

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Rocket to the Moon	Belle	National Theatre
2013	Barking in Essex	Chrissie	Wyndham Theatre

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2006	Tomb Raider: Legend	Lara Croft
2007	Tomb Raider: Anniversary	Lara Croft
2008	Tomb Raider: Underworld	Lara Croft
2009	Tomb Raider: Underworld - Beneath the Ashes	Lara Croft
	Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara's Shadow	Lara Croft
2010	Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light	Lara Croft
2014	Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris	Lara Croft

Awards

Hawes won the "Glamour Best UK Television Actress Award" in 2008 for her role in Ashes to Ashes. She was also nominated for a TV Choice Award for the same role, and for the Best Actress award at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards. She received a Leading Actress nomination for her role on Line of Duty for the 2015 British Academy Television Awards but ultimately lost out to Georgina Campbell.

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