Hawes is one of Britain’s finest actors – so while she is as magnetic as ever as retired hitwoman Julie, it is rather strange ...

Such is Hawes' performance that the audience is always invited back into her good graces – a worthy protagonist in her own story, coming out of the shadow of her more famous sister.

Based on a fictionalized account of Cassandra Austen’s life, “Miss Austen,” led by Keeley Hawes, speculates on what led Cassandra to burn her sister Jane’s letters. Robert Viglasky/Masterpiece ...