In 2007, she was cast as Alex Drake in the Ashes to Ashes, the spin-off to the hit BBC series to 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 February 2008, follows her fighting to wake up from the world of 1981 so she can get back to the present day and save her daughter, Molly. She starred along with Philip Glenister who played the TV's iconic Gene Hunt. Hawes was awarded the "Best UK Television Actress Award" in 2008 by the Glamour Awards for her role. In September 2008, she began filming the second series of Ashes to Ashes, later broadcast in early 2009. In September 2009, Hawes filmed the final series of Ashes to Ashes along with Philip Glenister. The last ever episode was aired in May and gained more than seven million viewers. In April 2008, Hawes began filming the BBC TV drama, Mutual Friends, which was then aired later in 2008. She has also 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? hosted by comedian Rob Brydon. Hawes signed up to play DSI Martha Lawson in a new six-part ITV series, Identity, currently being aired on ITV on Mondays. Identity has received fairly positive reviews. Over Christmas in December 2010, Keeley Hawes starred in the 3-episode re-launch of [Upstairs, Downstairs], in which she played the leading role of Lady Agnes Holland. Computer games - On 23 February 2006, it was revealed that Hawes had replaced Jonell Elliott as the voice of Lara Croft. She voiced the role of Eidos Interactive's globe-trotting adventurer in Tomb Raider: Legend, now under the reins of Crystal Dynamics. She reprised 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, titled Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, released in August 2010. Films of which she has appeared in are those such as The Avengers (1998), The Last September, Complicity (2000), A Cock and Bull Story (2006), The Bank Job (2008), In 2008, Hawes starred in the film Flashbacks of a Fool with Daniel Craig, where she plays the adult version of his younger sister, Jessie. She also starred in The Bank Job alongside Jason Statham and Daniel Mays.

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