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Keira Knightley

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Keira Christina Knightley^[1] (/ˌkɪərə ˈnaɪtli/; born 26 March 1985)^[2] is an English actress. She began acting as a child on television and made her film debut in 1995. She had a supporting role as Sabé in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) and her first significant role came in the psychological horror film The Hole (2001). She gained widespread recognition in 2002 after co-starring in the film Bend It Like Beckham and achieved international fame in 2003 after appearing as Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.

Knightley became known for starring in period dramas^[3][4] such as Pride & Prejudice (2005), for which she earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress; Atonement (2007), for which she was nominated again for a Golden Globe; Silk (2007); The Duchess (2008); A Dangerous Method (2011); and Anna Karenina (2012). She has also appeared in a variety of other genres, including the romantic comedy Love Actually (2003), as Guinevere in the historical action King Arthur (2004), the psychological thriller The Jacket (2005), biographical action Domino (2005), the historical romantic drama The Edge of Love (2008), the film noir London Boulevard (2010), the dystopian science fiction Never Let Me Go (2010), the romantic drama Last Night (2010), and the dark comedy Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012).

In its 2008 list, Forbes identified Knightley as the second-highest-paid actress in Hollywood, with reported earnings of US$32 million in 2007, making her the only non-American on the list of highest-paid actresses that year.^[5][6][7] In 2014, she was nominated for a Golden Globe, a SAG, a BAFTA Award, and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the historical drama The Imitation Game. In October 2015, Knightley made her Broadway debut in the title role of Thérèse Raquin.

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• 1Early life

• 2Career

  • 2.11993–2002: Career beginnings

  • 2.22003–07: Worldwide recognition

  • 2.32008–10: Transition into independent films

  • 2.42011–present: Continued career and Broadway debut

• 3Media attention

• 4Personal life

  • 4.1Charity work

• 5Filmography

• 6Theatre appearances

• 7Soundtrack appearances

• 8Awards and nominations

• 9Notes

• 10References

• 11External links

Early life[edit]

Knightley was born in Teddington, London, England, the daughter of Sharman Macdonald, an actress turned playwright, and Will Knightley, an actor.^[8] Her Scottish-born mother is of Scottish and Welsh descent, while her father is English.^[9] She was meant to be named "Kiera",^[10] after the Russian ice skater, Kira Ivanova, but her mother misspelled the name when she went to register her. She has an older brother, Caleb.^[11]

Knightley lived in Richmond, attending Stanley Junior School, Teddington School and Esher College.^[12] She requested an agent at the age of three.^[13] At six it was noticed that she was dyslexic but by eleven, with her parents' support and much tuition, Knightley says "they deemed me to have got over it sufficiently", though she is still a slow reader and can not sight-read.^[14] Knightley has noted that she was "single-minded about acting" during her childhood.^[15] She performed in a number of local amateur productions, which included After Juliet, written by her mother, and United States, written by her drama teacher, Ian McShane.^{[Note 1]} She focused on art, history, and English literature while at Esher, but left after a year to focus on her acting.^[16]

Career[edit]

1993–2002: Career beginnings[edit]

After getting an agent at six, Knightley worked mostly in commercials and small TV roles. Her first role was "Little Girl" in Royal Celebration, a 1993 TV film. A year later, she had a small role in the film A Village Affair. She later starred in 1995's Innocent Lies and 1998's Coming Home. She was a princess in the 1996 film The Treasure Seekers.^[17] Later in 1999, she appeared as Rose in Oliver Twist.^[18]

Knightley appeared in several television films in the mid-to-late 1990s—as well as ITV1's The Bill^[19]—before being cast as Sabé, Padmé Amidala's decoy, in the 1999 science fiction blockbuster Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Sabé's dialogue was dubbed over with Natalie Portman's voice. This was to hide the fact that the handmaiden Padmé (played by Portman) was actually disclosed as the real Queen Amidala at the end of the film. Knightley was cast in the role because of her close resemblance to Portman; even the two actresses' mothers had difficulty telling their daughters apart when the young women were in full makeup.^[20]

Knightley's first starring role was in 2001, when she played the daughter of Robin Hood in the made-for-television Walt Disney Productions feature Princess of Thieves. She trained for several weeks in archery, fencing and horse riding.^[21] During this time, Knightley also appeared in The Hole, a thriller that received a direct-to-video release in the United States. Its director Nick Hamm described her as "a young version of Julie Christie".^[22]

She appeared in the miniseries adaptation of Doctor Zhivago as Lara, alongside Scottish actor Hans Matheson in the title role, which first aired in 2002 to good reviews and high ratings.^[23] In the same year, she also performed in the film Pure, in which she portrays a pregnant teenager who is a heroin addict and had a child taken by social services.^[21] Knightley's breakthrough role was in the football-themed film Bend It Like Beckham, which was a success in its August 2002 UK release, grossing US$18 million, and in its March 2003 U.S. release, grossing US$32 million.^[24]

2003–07: Worldwide recognition[edit]

After Bend It Like Beckham's UK release raised her profile, Knightley was cast in the big-budget action film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, along with Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, it opened in July 2003 to positive reviews^[25] and a worldwide gross of $654 million,^[26]becoming one of the biggest hits of summer 2003.

Knightley had a role in the British romantic comedy Love Actually, which opened in November 2003, which co-starred her childhood idol Emma Thompson.^[27] Her next film, King Arthur, opened in July 2004 to negative reviews;^[28] in preparation for the role she took boxing, fighting, archery and horseriding lessons for four days a week for three months.^[27][29]

In the same month, Knightley was voted by readers of Hello magazine as the film industry's most promising teen star.^[30] Additionally, TIME magazine wrote in a 2004 feature that Knightley seemed dedicated to developing herself as a serious actress rather than a film star.^[31]

She appeared in three films in 2005, the first of which was The Jacket, alongside Adrien Brody.^[32] She next appeared in Tony Scott's Domino, an action film based on the life of bounty hunter Domino Harvey. Rotten Tomatoes, in their critical consensus, called the film "overwrought and excessive"; it received a 19% approval rating based on 153 catalogued reviews.^[33]

Knightley at the premiere of Atonement in Leicester Square, London, 2007

Pride & Prejudice was released in 2005.^[34] Knightley had loved the book since she was seven, and with her first cheque for acting she bought a doll's house of the hero's mansion.^[35] She said of her character, "The beauty of Elizabeth is that every woman who ever reads the book seems to recognise herself, with all her faults and imperfections. If you give an actress who is even remotely good the chance to play a fantastic character like that, they are going to revel in it."^[35] Variety wrote about her portrayal of Elizabeth Bennet: "Looking every bit a star, Knightley, who's shown more spirit than acting smarts so far in her career, really steps up to the plate here, holding her own against the more classically trained Matthew Macfadyen, as well as vets like Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Penelope Wilton and Judi Dench with a luminous strength that recalls a young Audrey Hepburn. More than the older Jennifer Ehle in the TV series, she catches Elizabeth's essential skittishness and youthful braggadocio, making her final conversion all the more moving."^[36] The film grossed more than US$100 million worldwide,^[37] and Knightley earned a Golden Globe nomination and an Oscar nomination (the Oscar ultimately went to Reese Witherspoon). The Academy Award nomination made her the third-youngest performer ever nominated.^[38] BAFTA's decision not to nominate her drew criticism from Pride & Prejudice producer Tim Bevan.^[39]

In 2006, Knightley was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.^[40] Her biggest financial hit thus far, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, was released in July 2006.^[41]

Knightley starred in three major films in 2007: Silk, an adaptation of the novel by Alessandro Baricco, Atonement, a feature film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel of the same name (co-starring James McAvoy, Vanessa Redgrave and Brenda Blethyn),^[42] and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which was released in May 2007. For her performance in Atonement, Knightley was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the Best Dramatic Actress category for the role and a BAFTA Award. Critic Richard Roeper was puzzled by both Knightley's and McAvoy's Academy Award snubs, stating "I thought McAvoy and Knightley were superb."^[43]

2008–10: Transition into independent films[edit]

In 2008, Knightley appeared alongside Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys in John Maybury's The Edge of Love, a fictional wartime drama about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, his wife Caitlin Macnamara, childhood friend Vera Williams, and her romance and marriage with a British soldier. Penned by Knightley's mother, Sharman Macdonald, the playwright initially crafted the screenplay with Knightley as Macnamara in her mind.^[44] Once her daughter agreed to portray Williams, Macdonald enlarged the character, making her a singer.^[44]

Knightley, who watched Marlene Dietrich films for preparation, was expecting to mime to her prerecorded voice, but was told by Maybury to sing live in front of the crew while shooting. "I was shaking like a leaf," Knightley later commented, "I thought my knees were going to buckle. In the first couple of songs, I sounded like a pubescent boy, it was so embarrassing."^[44] While the actress received positive reviews for her role,^[45] the film became a moderate critical and commercial arthouse success.^[46][47]

Knightley at the BAFTA Awards in 2008