Keira Knightley (born March 26 1985 in Teddington, London, England) is a British actress, the girl of Scottish playwright Sharman Macdonald and actor Will Knightley. She has lived virtually all of her life inside Richmond upon Thames.

Career

She began to watch around her parents' footsteps at an early stage, making her film debut at the age of nine inside The Village Affair (1994). Her 1st major a portion was Sabé in The Phantom Menace, Padmé Amidala's decoy. Knightley was presumptively cast because of her resemblance to star Natalie Portman.

Knightley is better known for her breakthrough roles within Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Bend It Rather Beckham was especially physically demanding for Knightley within terms of the acute football training she underwent but opened a way for her into Hollywood. Her role in the blockbuster Pirates cemented her higher-&-gumptious position inside international cinema.

When Knightley has recently appeared in the blockbuster King Arthur, her dedication to developing herself as an actress like than the film star was noted by Time magazine in a 2004 feature. Inside July 2004, Knightley was voted by readers of Hello! magazine as a movie industry's virtually all promising teenage star. In addition, Knightley was voted a sexiest film star ever per readers of Empire magazine, leaving behind others stars such as Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts, Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot.

Beside acting, Knightley is presently modelling for Asprey, the British luxury things company. She is trained within dancing and is a supporter of West Ham United football team.

Within 2005 Knightley starred as Domino Harvey, a noted British born model-turned- L.A. bounty hunter in Tony Scott's fact based film Domino and also as the lead Elizabeth Bennett in a film adaption of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice with Donald Sutherland and Matthew MacFadyen. It recently opened at There is no.One within the UK pack professional, her sixth film to launder and so in her short however implausibly successful career.

She is presently filming a sequels to the vastly popular Pirates of the Caribbean series, due for release in the summers of 2006 and 2007 severally.

Filmography