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\"\"Keira Knightley<\/strong>\u00a0(born March 26, 1985,\u00a0Teddington, Middlesex, England) is an English actress who is best known for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and a number of period dramas, including\u00a0Pride & Prejudice<\/em>\u00a0(2005). Although extremely\u00a0versatile, she is especially noted for portraying plucky heroines and tragic figures.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Early life and career<\/h2>\n

Knightley is the youngest of two children born to Sharman Macdonald and Will Knightley, both of whom acted; her mother was also a playwright and novelist. Caleb Knightley, her elder brother, later composed music for films. From a very young age, Keira Knightley knew that she wanted to act, and, when she was six years old, her parents helped her obtain an agent. In 1993 Knightley made her television debut, making a brief appearance in an episode of\u00a0Screen One<\/em>. Two years later she acted in her first film,\u00a0Innocent Lies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For the next few years, Knightley was cast in minor roles, appearing in such projects as the TV movie\u00a0The Treasure Seekers<\/em>\u00a0(1996) and the miniseries\u00a0Coming Home<\/em>\u00a0(1998). During this time she was also\u00a0attending\u00a0school, and there she struggled early on because of\u00a0dyslexia. She was able to overcome this disability, in part, by reading books and screenplays.<\/p>\n

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Star Wars: Episode I\u2014The Phantom Menace<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Bend It Like Beckham<\/em><\/h2>\n

Knightley\u2019s first role in a major film came at the age of 12 when she was cast as Sab\u00e9 in\u00a0<\/span>Star Wars: Episode I\u2014The Phantom Menace<\/em>\u00a0(1999). Her character is a handmaiden of Queen Amidala (played by\u00a0Natalie Portman), and she serves as the monarch\u2019s decoy. The film was a blockbuster, and much was made about Knightley\u2019s uncanny resemblance to Portman. Knightley continued to act in a variety of roles, including those of Rose Fleming in the miniseries\u00a0Oliver Twist<\/em>\u00a0(1999) and the main character Gwyn, who was the daughter of Maid Marian and\u00a0Robin Hood, in the TV movie\u00a0Princess of Thieves<\/em>\u00a0(2001). She subsequently enrolled at Esher College in Surrey, England, but left during her first year to devote herself to acting.<\/p>\n

Knightley\u2019s breakthrough in England came with her role in\u00a0<\/span>Bend It Like Beckham<\/em>\u00a0(2002). She played Jules, a\u00a0football (soccer)\u00a0fanatic who befriends a British-Indian teenager whose parents disapprove of her playing sports. The sports film proved enduring, in part because it deftly addressed such universal themes as gender and race. Also in 2002 Knightley starred in the miniseries\u00a0Doctor Zhivago<\/em>\u00a0(2002), an\u00a0adaptation\u00a0of\u00a0Boris Pasternak\u2019s\u00a0classic novel. She played the strong-willed Lara Antipova, the wife of a revolutionary who has a love affair with the title character.<\/p>\n

Stardom:\u00a0Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>,\u00a0Pride & Prejudice<\/em>, and\u00a0Atonement<\/em><\/h2>\n

The actress was starting to land more prominent roles, but it was the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise that made Knightley a global star. In\u00a0<\/span>Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl<\/em>\u00a0(2003), which starred\u00a0Johnny Depp\u00a0and Orlando Bloom, Knightley played the adventurous Elizabeth Swann. The film was a major box-office success, and Knightley\u00a0reprised\u00a0her role in three other Pirates of the Caribbean films:\u00a0<\/span>Dead Man\u2019s Chest<\/em>\u00a0(2006),\u00a0<\/span>At World\u2019s End<\/em>\u00a0(2007), and\u00a0<\/span>Dead Men Tell No Tales<\/em>\u00a0(2017). The popularity of the franchise brought renewed interest in\u00a0Bend It Like Beckham<\/em>, which became a modest hit in the\u00a0United States.<\/p>\n

Other movies from the early 2000s include the hugely popular rom-com\u00a0<\/span>Love Actually<\/em>\u00a0(2003) and the action-drama\u00a0King Arthur<\/em>\u00a0(2004). In 2005 Knightley played the high-spirited\u00a0Elizabeth Bennet\u00a0in an\u00a0<\/span>adaptation of\u00a0Jane Austen\u2019s\u00a0Pride and Prejudice<\/em>. For her role in the\u00a0romantic\u00a0film, Knightley received\u00a0Academy Award\u00a0and\u00a0Golden Globe\u00a0nominations for best actress. The movie was directed by Joe Wright, and the two reunited for\u00a0<\/span>Atonement<\/em>\u00a0(2007), which was based on\u00a0Ian McEwan\u2019s novel of the same name. Knightley played the wealthy Cecilia Tallis, whose secret affair with the housekeeper\u2019s son (James McAvoy) in pre-World War II\u00a0England sets off a series of tragic events. For her performance, she earned Golden Globe and\u00a0BAFTA\u00a0Award nominations.<\/p>\n

Later films and theatrical workKnightley subsequently appeared in\u00a0The Duchess<\/em>\u00a0(2008), a biopic about the scandalous Georgiana Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire;\u00a0<\/span>Never Let Me Go<\/em>\u00a0(2010), an adaptation of\u00a0Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s novel about the\u00a0ethics\u00a0of\u00a0genetic engineering; and\u00a0Anna Karenina<\/em>\u00a0(2012), an adaptation of\u00a0Leo Tolstoy\u2019s\u00a0classic novel\u00a0that was also directed by Wright. In 2013 she showcased her singing in\u00a0Begin Again<\/em>, a crowd-pleaser about a singer-songwriter and a struggling record-label executive (Mark Ruffalo). The following year she appeared in the action thriller\u00a0Jack Ryan: A New Recruit<\/em>; it was directed by\u00a0Kenneth Branagh\u00a0and featured\u00a0Chris Pine\u00a0and\u00a0Kevin Costner.<\/h2>\n
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In 2014 Knightley took a supporting role in the World War II film\u00a0The Imitation Game<\/em>, about\u00a0Alan Turing\u00a0(Benedict Cumberbatch). Her portrayal of cryptanalyst Joan Clarke earned Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe nominations. Knightley later was featured in the action-drama\u00a0Everest<\/em>\u00a0(2015), about an ill-fated\u00a0expedition\u00a0on the mountain, and\u00a0Colette<\/em>\u00a0(2018), a biopic of the legendary\u00a0French author. Her credits from 2019 include\u00a0The Aftermath<\/em>, a romantic drama about a British colonel\u2019s wife who has an affair with a German widower (Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd) in post-World War II Hamburg. Knightley later appeared in\u00a0Misbehaviour<\/em>\u00a0(2020), a dramedy about a beauty pageant, and the true-crime drama\u00a0<\/span>Boston Strangler<\/em>\u00a0(2023), in which she played the reporter who broke the story about the\u00a0infamous serial killer. In 2024 she took on the role of a spy who is joined by an old friend in her effort to avenge her lover\u2019s murder in the Netflix miniseries\u00a0<\/span>Black Doves<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In addition to film and television, Knightley occasionally acted in theater. She made her\u00a0West End\u00a0debut\u00a0in an updated take on\u00a0Moli\u00e8re\u2019s comedy\u00a0The Misanthrope<\/em>\u00a0(2009). Despite mixed reviews, she earned an Olivier Award nomination for best supporting actress. In 2015\u201316 Knightley starred in her first Broadway production, an adaptation of\u00a0\u00c9mile Zola\u2019s\u00a0Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Raquin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Other activities and personal life<\/h2>\n

Knightley frequently appeared on the covers of fashion magazines, notably\u00a0Vogue<\/em>. In 2006 she was introduced as the face of the\u00a0Chanel\u00a0line of perfume Coco Mademoiselle.<\/p>\n

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Knightley married musician James Righton in 2013, and the couple later had two daughters, Edie (2015) and Delilah (2019). In 2018 Knightley was made an Officer of the Order of the\u00a0British Empire\u00a0(OBE).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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