Keira Knightley Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Performer (songs from the film) , Associate producer more
Birth name Keira Christina Knightley
British nationality
Birth March 26, 1985 (Teddington, London – England)

BIOGRAPHY
Keira Knightley is what you might call a ball girl. Daughter of actor Will Knightley and playwright Sharman MacDonald , Keira, born in Teddington in Middlesex, England, began her career on television by appearing in numerous commercials . In 1999, at the age of sixteen, she landed the role of Sabé in Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace . After this sensational start and in parallel with a television career (the series Princess of Thieves and Oliver Twist ), the young woman progresses at her own pace, taking care to vary the genres.

Thus, in 2001, Keira Knightley was one of the young stars of the horror thriller The Hole . The following year, she radically changed register by portraying a football player in the comedy Play It Like Beckham (2002). In 2003, she took it up a notch by playing one of the main roles in the Disney adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean, the Curse of the Black Pearl alongside Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush . Three years later, she again donned the dress of the aristocratic Elizabeth Swann for the two other parts Pirates of the Caribbean: The Secret of the Cursed Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean, At World’s End .

Her beauty radiates the screen as evidenced by her performance in the romantic comedy Love actually (2003) by Richard Curtis . Hollywood is snatching it up: Keira Knightley lends her features to Guinevere in the epic fresco King Arthur (2004), before swapping her bow and arrows for the firearms favored by bounty hunter Domino Harvey. But from 2005, the beauty turned to a more classical repertoire, touring twice under the direction of the British Joe Wright ( Pride and Prejudice , Come Back to Me ) and tasting the work of Alessandro Baricco ( Soie ).

In 2008, she toured again, after The Jacket , under the direction of John Maybury , in The Edge of Love , the screenplay of which was written by her mother. The same year, she played the title role in The Duchess alongside Ralph Fiennes , then left cinema for a while to go on stage for the first time. Thus, she made her theatrical debut in an adaptation of theMisanthrope by Molière by Martin Crimp where she reprises the role of Célimène in a more modern version. The start of 2011 marks his return to the screens with 2 films released a few weeks apart. The first, Last Night , sees her play a woman confronted with adulterous temptation while the second, Never Let Me Go , based on the acclaimed short story by Kazuo Ishiguro , allows her to play a clone alongside rising stars such as Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield .

David Cronenberg then transforms her into Sabina Spielrein, a Jewish patient suffering from hysteria who brings trouble to the relationship between the two famous psychoanalysts Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud in A Dangerous Method . She continues to rub shoulders with big names, like Jude Law ( Anna Karenina , 2012), Steve Carell ( Until the End of the World Do Us Part , id.), Chris Pine ( The Ryan Initiative , 2013), Mark Ruffalo ( New York Melody , 2014) and Benedict Cumberbatch ( Imitation Game , 2015). The same year, we found her in the casting of the romantic comedy Girls Only alongside the young Chloë Grace Moretz then in the adventure film Everest .