"Which actress played the detective ""Alex Drake"" in the BBC drama ""Ashes to Ashes"""
Alex Drake (Ashes to Ashes) Alex Drake (Ashes to Ashes) DI Alexandra "Alex" Drake is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, "Ashes to Ashes". The character is portrayed by Keeley Hawes and as a child by Lucy Cole. The character of Alex Drake is the main protagonist of "Ashes to Ashes", the sequel to the 2006 series "Life on Mars", which followed the story of Sam Tyler (John Simm) who wakes in 1973 after being hit by a car in 2005. "Ashes to Ashes" follows the similar storyline of Alex Drake who after being shot in 2008 awakes in 1981. The
Alex Drake (Ashes to Ashes) character has been described as "ballsy, confident and bright", along with being "perceptive in deduction" and "understanding the workings of the criminal mind". During the first episode of "Ashes to Ashes", it is revealed that Alex Drake is the unnamed police psychologist mentioned in the finale of "Life on Mars", who interviewed and recorded case notes of Sam Tyler's time in 1973 and studied his subsequent suicide, as witnessed in the finale of "Life on Mars". During the opening scenes of the first episode, Drake, while driving her daughter Molly (Grace Vance) to school is unexpectedly called to a hostage