2. Keira Christina Knightley (born 26 March 1985) is an English actress and singer. 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 Hole (2001).
3. Her Scottish-born mother is of Scots and Welsh descent, and her father is of English
ancestry. She has an older brother, Caleb.
4. After getting an agent at 6, Knightley worked mostly on 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. Later in 1999, she appeared as Rose in Oliver Twist.
5. 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.In the same year, she also was in the film Pure, in which she
portrays a pregnant teenager who is a heroin addict and had a child taken by social
services.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.
6. Knightley was in a relationship with actor Del Synnott from 2001 to 2003. The couple
met during the filming of Princess of Thieves. Knightley was also in a relationship with
actorJamie Dornan from 2003 to 2005. She dated her Pride & Prejudice co-star Rupert
Friend from 2005 until December 2010. She subsequently began dating
musician James Righton, of Klaxons,in late February 2011. Knightley and Righton
married on 4 May 2013 in Mazan, Vaucluse, Southern France. The couple live
in Islington. On 12 December, 2014 Keira confirmed through a spokesperson that she
was pregnant with her first child.
7. Knightley is the face of an Amnesty International campaign to support human rights,
marking the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. In 2004, she travelled to Ethiopia alongside Richard Curtis, Sanjeev Bhaskar and
Julian Metcalfe on behalf of the Comic Relief charity. She posed for photos for Water
Aida in 2005 and also for the American Library Association's "Read" campaign (a
promotional poster of Pride & Prejudice). The dress she wore to the 2006 Academy
Awards was donated to the charity Oxfam, where it raised £4,300.
8. In April 2009, Knightley appeared in a video to raise awareness of domestic abuse
entitled Cut shot for Women's Aid. The video created controversy, with some sources
calling it too graphic, while other groups support the video for showing a realistic
depiction of domestic violence. In November 2010, Knightley became patron of the
SMA Trust, a British charity that funds medical research into the disease spinal
muscular atrophy.
9. Keira Knightley Movies
• 1. Never Let Me Go
• 2.Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the
Black Pearl
• 3.The Jacket
• 4.Atonement
• 5.The Duchess
• 6.The Edge of Love
• 7.Pride & Prejudice
• 10.Anna Karenina
