Full name: Keira Christina Knightley
Famous as : Actress
Birth Name : Keira Christina Knightley
Birth Date : March 26, 1985
Birth Place : Teddington, Middlesex, UK
Claim to fame : As Juliette Paxton in "Bend It Like Beckham" (2003)
Height: 5' 7"
Nationality: British
Thanks to her standout performance in the surprising hit "Bend It Like Beckham" (2002), unknown actress Keira Knightley vaulted to the attention of moviegoers outside her native England. Prior to her playing a young semi-pro soccer player who befriends an Indian girl more interested in joining the team than following her parents' traditional ways, Knightley had already amassed a long list of film, television and theater credits, including a famed - albeit brief - appearance in "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" (1999) as Sabe, Natalie Portman's decoy queen. But it was the juggernaut pirate adventure "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" (2003) and its two sequels, "Dead Man's Chest" (2005) and "At World's End (2007), that cemented Knightley as a truly international star, able to hold her own with the likes of Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. Not one to be pigeonholed, however, she broadened her range in 2005, starring as the headstrong Elizabeth Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice," a role that earned Knightley her first Oscar nomination and demonstrated that she was more than just a pretty face in the midst of testosterone-fueled action movies.
Despite her popularity in Hollywood, Knightley retained a home in London and made no bones about her interest in remaining a UK citizen and resident, while continuing to do business Stateside. Her next few projects remained outside the studio system, allowing Knightley to further broaden her resume. She starred in the adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's period novel, "Silk" (2007), playing the loving and doting wife of a silkworm merchant (Michael Pitt), who falls in love with a concubine (Sei Ashina) while on business in Japan. Following "Silk," Knightley portrayed the sister of a fledgling writer whose life is irrevocably changed when her lover is accused of a crime he did not commit in "Atonement" (2007).
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