"Blimey... Who is she?"
"She's the most amazing woman I have ever met."

I don't think there's a better description for the exceptional Keeley Hawes. She truly is a marvel, and I am not exagerrating. I've spent a great part of the last 5 months going through her filmography, not having seen half of it yet, but I've seen plenty already. And let me tell you, I am ASTOUNDED. DUMBFOUNDED. SPEECHLESS.

Keeley Hawes has this amazing ability of taking a character and building them from top to bottom. There's no trace of one in the other. Not physically. Not vocally. Not in any single way. Even when you think you will manage to spot a glimpse, she proves you wrong. I watched more than 10 of her shows back to back and I just couldn't believe this was the same person in every single one of them. I am proud and honoured to have become her fan. And quite irritated with myself that I hadn't discovered her sooner. But this has changed, now she has a fan for life in me.

This video contains some of my absolutely most favourite Keeley characters of all time. Some date back to 2001, some are brand new 2019 ones. I loved them all and I will never decide which one is my top favourite, it's impossible to choose. So I give you 5:30 minutes of her brilliance. Not nearly enough in my opinion, but plenty to realize what kind of an exceptional artist she is.

Featuring Keeley as:
Zoe Reynolds (BBC's "Spooks", 2001-2003)
Alex Drake (BBC's "Ashes to Ashes", 2008-2010)
Lady Agnes Holland (BBC's "Upstairs, Downstairs", 2010-2012)
DI Lindsay Denton (BBC's "Line of Duty", 2014-2016)
Samantha Mollison (BBC and HBO's "The Casual Vacancy", 2015)
Miss Delphox/Madam Karabraxos (BBC's "Doctor Who", 2015)
Gemma Webster (BBC's "The Missing", 2016)
Louisa Durrell (ITV's "The Durrells", 2016-2019)
Julia Montague (BBC's "Bodyguard", 2018)
Dorothy Wick (Masterpiece PBS' "Mrs Wilson", 2019)
Priscilla Garrick (Channel 4's "Traitors", 2019)

and Snow Patrol's "Open Your Eyes"

PS: this video is one of the hardest ones I had to work on. More than 100 files to go through with an impossible selection of brilliant scenes and quotes to choose from... I hope I did her justice, although I am not that good. All the quotes in the end do refer to her characters, they were not random.
The song selection came from the fact that Keeley is a Snow Patrol fan and this is probably one of my favourite of their songs so I found it fitting.

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DISCLAIMER: I OWN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL. ALL SHOWS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTFUL PRODUCTION COMPANIES AND DISTRIBUTORS. ALL CLIPS USED ARE FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. And of course, to promote the brilliance and blessing that is Keeley Hawes. The entire world needs to know about her, it's a blasphemy to human kind that they don't.