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Keeley Hawes (born 10 February 1976) 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 (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Tipping the Velvet (2002), and The Canterbury Tales (2003). She portrayed Zoe Reynolds in the BBC espionage drama series Spooks from 2002 to 2004, followed by her co-lead performance as Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes (2008–2010), for which she won a Glamour Award. She played leading roles in the 2010 revival of Upstairs, Downstairs, the limited series The Casual Vacancy (2015), The Missing (2016), and the ITV comedy-drama The Durrells (2016–2019). Hawes was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her performance in Jed Mercurio's police procedural Line of Duty as DI Lindsey Denton. She teamed again with Mercurio for the 2018 thriller Bodyguard in which she played Home Secretary Julia Montague. Hawes has also appeared in films, including Death at a Funeral (2007) and High-Rise (2015), and she provided the voice of Lara Croft in a series of Tomb Raider video games.
Trailing a suspected terrorist, Bond is surprised to find himself at an auction house where his target bids an exobertant amount on a painting belonging to Lady Maria Krest. Apprehending his target Bond finds out the purchase of the painting was actually payment for the location data of a missing German WWII U Boat which had aboard a working Atomic Bomb. Lady Krest is said to be in possession of the information. Bond gets permission to interogate her but when he arrives at her country estate in Southern France he determines that she does not have the information. Lady Krest husband, Milton Krest, is an American millionaire who holds a party on his luxury yacht, Bond attends as he is very attracted to Lady Krest. He is drugged and wakes up 48 hours later with the boat of the coast of Argentina. It turns out that Milton Krest is the broker of the information and he has worked out who Bond is. He has agreed to exchange both Bond and the Sub to a new buyer. Lady Krest helps Bond escape but is killed by her husband who fights Bond using a cattle prod hidden in his cane he has been constantly carrying. Bond manages to escape but cannot stop the exchange from going down. Managing to contact M15 he lets them know the target is New York City. Ordered to stand down and let the Americans handle it Bond disobeys and contacts Felix Leiter who accepts Bonds help. Bond arrives in New York and fights Krest again this time on the top of the Empire State Building, Krest falls to his death after Bond shocks his hand gripping to the ledge with his own cattle prod. The Bomb is diffused and the end of the movie sees Bond tracking down the leader of the terrorist cell.
