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Date of Birth: March 26, 1985

Place of Birth: Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK

Keira Christina Knightley was born in the South London suburb of Richmond on March 26th 1985. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald. An older brother, Caleb Knightley, was born in 1979. Brought up immersed in the acting profession from both sides - writing and performing - it is little wonder that the young Keira asked for her own agent at the age of three.

She was granted one at the age of six and performed in her first TV role as "Little Girl" in "Screen One: Royal Celebration (#5.4)" (1993), aged seven. It was discovered at an early age that Keira had severe difficulties in reading and writing. She was not officially dyslexic as she never sat the formal tests required of the British Dyslexia Association. Instead, she worked incredibly hard, encouraged by her family, until the problem had been overcome by her early teens.

Her first multi-scene performance came in A Village Affair (TV), an adaptation of the lesbian love story by Joanna Trollope. This was followed by small parts in the British crime series "The Bill", an exiled German princess in The Treasure Seekers (TV) and a much more substantial role as the young "Judith Dunbar" in Giles Foster's adaptation of Rosamunde Pilcher's novel Coming Home (TV). The first time Keira's name was mentioned around the world was when it was revealed (in a plot twist kept secret by director George Lucas) that she played Natalie Portman's decoy "Padme" to Portman's "Amidala" in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.

By now, she was beginning to receive far more substantial roles and was starting to turn work down as one project and her schoolwork was enough to contend with. She reappeared on British television as Rose Fleming in a faithful reworking of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist", and traveled to Romania to film her first title role in Walt Disney's Princess of Thieves (TV) in which she played Robin Hood's daughter, Gwyn. Later co-starred in Peter Hewitt's Thunderpants.

In 2001, while Keira studied and sat her final school exams (she received six A's), she filmed a movie about an Asian girl's (Parminder Nagra) love for football and the prejudices she has to overcome regarding both her culture and her religion. Bend It Like Beckham was a smash hit in football-mad Britain but it had to wait until another of Keira's films propelled it to the top end of the US box office.

Meanwhile, Keira had started A-levels at Esher College, studying Classics, English Literature and Political History, but continued to take acting roles which she thought would widen her experience as an actress.

Auditions were held in London for a new blockbuster movie called Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), but heavy traffic in the city forced Keira to be tagged on to the end of the day's auditions list. It helped - she got the part. Filming took place in Los Angeles and the Caribbean from October 2002 to March 2003 and was released to massive box office success and almost universal acclaim in the July of that year. But Keira's dominance in "Pirates" had set tongues wagging and questions being asked about the actress playing "Elizabeth Swann".

Keira spent her time wisely, visiting Ethiopia on behalf of the "Comic Relief" charity, and spending summer at various grandiose locations around the UK filming what promises to be a faithful adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride & Prejudice (2005), alongside Matthew Macfadyen as "Mr. Darcy", and with Donald Sutherland and Judi Dench in supporting roles. In

Domino (2005) opened well in October, overshadowed by the death of Domino Harvey earlier in the year. Keira received Variety's Personality Of The Year Award in November, topped the following month by her first Golden Globe nomination, for Pride & Prejudice (2005). KeiraWeb.com exclusively announced that Keira would play Helene Joncour in an adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novella Silk (2007).

Pride & Prejudice (2005) garnered six BAFTA nominations at the start of 2006, but not Best Actress for Keira, a fact which paled soon after by the announcement she had received her first Academy Award nomination, the third youngest Best Actress Oscar hopeful.

Keira sued British newspaper The Daily Mail in early 2007 after her image in a bikini accompanied an article about a woman who blamed slim celebrities for the death of her daughter from anorexia. The case was settled and Keira matched the settlement damages and donated the total amount to an eating disorder charity.

The year saw more accolades and poll-topping for Keira than ever before, including Women's Beauty Icon 2007 and gracing the covers of all the top-selling magazines. She won Best Actress for Atonement (2007) at the Variety Club Of Great Britain Showbiz Awards, and ended the year with her second Golden Globe nomination. Christmas Day saw - or rather heard - Keira on British TV screens in a new Robbie The Reindeer animated adventure, with DVD proceeds going to Comic Relief.

At the start of 2008, Keira received her first BAFTA nomination - Best Actress for Atonement, and the movie wins Best Film: Drama at the Golden Globes. Seven Academy Award nominations for Atonement soon follow. Keira wins Best Actress for her role as Cecilia Tallis at the Empire Film Awards.

Meanwhile, in late October it was finally confirmed that Keira had won the role of Eliza Doolittle in a brand new adaptation of My Fair Lady (2012). With a script by Emma Thompson and produced by Duncan Kenworthy and Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its director was also finally confirmed as Joe Wright (after Danny Boyle and Stephen Daldry were linked at various stages). Filming is not due to start until late 2010, with Daniel Craig a possible Professor Higgins.

1. The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers .... The Fairy [2009]
2. Looking Over: The Edge of Love (V) .... Vera Phillips [2008]
3. The Duchess .... Georgiana [2008]
4. The Edge of Love .... Vera Phillips [2008]
5. Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind (TV) (voice) .... Em [2007]
6. Silk .... Hélène Joncour [2007]
7. Atonement .... Cecilia Tallis [2007]
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End .... Elizabeth Swann [2007]
9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest .... Elizabeth Swann [2006]
10. Domino .... Domino Harvey [2005]
11. Pride & Prejudice .... Elizabeth Bennet [2005]
12. The Jacket .... Jackie Price [2005]
13. Stories of Lost Souls .... Leah [segment "New Year's Eve"] [2005]
14. King Arthur .... Guinevere [2004]
15. Love Actually .... Juliet [2003]
16. Pirates of the Caribbean (VG) (voice) .... Narrator [2003]
17. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl .... Elizabeth Swann [2003]
18. Gaijin (V) (voice) .... Kate [2003]
19. The Seasons Alter .... Helena [2002]
20. Doctor Zhivago (TV) .... Lara Antipova [2002]
21. New Year's Eve .... Leah [2002]
22. Pure .... Louise [2002]
23. Thunderpants (uncredited) .... Music School Student [2002]
24. Bend It Like Beckham .... Juliette 'Jules' Paxton [2002]
25. The Hole .... Frances 'Frankie' Almond Smith [2001]
26. Princess of Thieves (TV) .... Gwyn [2001]
27. Deflation .... Jogger [2001]
28. Oliver Twist .... Rose Fleming [3 episodes] [1999]
29. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace .... Sabé [1999]
30. Coming Home (TV) .... Young Judith [1998]
31. The Treasure Seekers (TV) .... The Princess [1996]
32. The Bill .... Sheena Rose [1 episode] [1995]
33. Innocent Lies .... Young Celia [1995]
34. A Village Affair (TV) .... Natasha Jordan [1995]
35. Screen One .... Little Girl [1 episode] [1993]

Trivia

The similarity between Knightley and Natalie Portman meant that during the filming of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, their own mothers could not tell them apart once in makeup.

Her role as the decoy queen in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) was kept secret in order to not spoil the surprise, it was maintained through the promotions that Portman played both the Queen and the decoy.

She did her first topless scene at the age of 15, in The Hole, whilst the film was released in 2001 it was filmed in 2000. For legal reasons due to her age her mother had to agree and the set was closed.

Tatler announced that Keira is the most desirable single woman in the UK [2004]

Voted #1 in New Woman magazine's 50 Most Beautiful Celebs [2004]
Voted The Sexiest Film Star of All Time by Empire magazine poll. [September 2004]
Voted #18 in FHM 100 Sexiest Women [2005].
Named #53 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of [2005] list.
Named #11 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" special supplement. [2005]
Named #9 on MAXIM magazines "Hot 100" list of [2006]
Named #5 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" supplement. [2006]
Ranked #20 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of [2007] list.
Voted #15 in the AfterEllen Hot 100, a list of the hottest women in entertainment as voted by lesbian and bisexual women [June 2007]
Was ranked #10 on Forbes List of The 20 Top-Earning Young Superstars [2007]
Ranked #87 on Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture" [2008]
Voted #10 in FHM 100 Sexiest [2008]