BIOGRAPHY
Date of Birth
26 March 1985, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
Original Name
Keira Christina Knightley
Tallness
5' 7" (1.7 m)
Smaller than usual Bio (1)
Keira Christina Knightley was conceived in the South West Greater London suburb of Richmond on March 26th 1985. She is the little girl of performer Will Knightley and on-screen character turned dramatist Sharman Macdonald. A more seasoned sibling, Caleb Knightley, was conceived in 1979. Her dad is English, while her Scottish-conceived mother is of Scottish and Welsh inception. Raised drenched in the acting calling from both sides - composing and performing - it is minimal marvel that the youthful Keira requested her own specialists at three years old. She was conceded one at six years old and performed in her first TV part as "Young lady" in Screen One: Royal Celebration (1993), matured seven.
It was found at an early age that Keira had extreme challenges in perusing and composing. She was not authoritatively dyslexic as she never sat the formal tests needed of the British Dyslexia Association. Rather, she worked staggeringly hard, energized by her family, until the issue had been overcome by her initial teenagers. Her first multi-scene execution arrived in A Village Affair (1995), an adjustment of the lesbian adoration story byJoanna Trollope. This was trailed by little parts in the British wrongdoing arrangement The Bill(1984), a banished German princess in The Treasure Seekers (1996) and a considerably more generous part as the youthful "Judith Dunbar" in Giles Foster's adjustment of Rosamunde Pilcher's novel Coming Home (1998), close by Peter O'Toole, Penelope Keith andJoanna Lumley. The first run through Keira's name was specified the world over was the point at which it was uncovered (in a plot turn kept mystery by executive George Lucas) that she playedNatalie Portman's distraction "Padme" to Portman's "Amidala" in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). It was quite a while before assention was come to over which scenes highlighted Keira as the ruler and which included Natalie!
Keira had no formal preparing as an on-screen character and did it because of immaculate satisfaction. She went to a customary gathering run school in close-by Teddington and had no clue what she needed to do when she exited. At this point, she was starting to get significantly more generous parts and was beginning to turn work down as one task and her schoolwork was sufficient to battle with. She returned on British TV in 1999 as "Rose Fleming" in Alan Bleasdale's reliable revamping of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist (1999), and set out to Romania to film her first title part in Walt Disney's Princess of Thieves(2001) in which she played Robin Hood's little girl, Gwyn. Keira's first genuine beau was her Princess of Thieves (2001) co-star Del Synnott, and they later co-featured inPeter Hewitt's 'work of fart' Thunderpants (2002). Scratch Hamm's dull thriller The Hole(2001) kept her caught up with amid 2000, and included her first bare scene (15 at the time, the film was not discharged until she was 16 years of age). In the mid year of 2001, while Keira examined and sat her last school exams (she got six A's), she taped a film around an Asian young lady's (Parminder Nagra) love for football and the preferences she needs to overcome with respect to both her way of life and her religion). Twist It Like Beckham (2002) was a raving success in football-distraught Britain yet it needed to hold up until another of Keira's movies pushed it to the top end of the US film industry. Twist It Like Beckham (2002) expense only £3.5m to make, and almost £1m of that originated from the British Lottery. It took £11m in the UK and has following gone ahead to score more than US$76m around the world.
In the interim, Keira had begun A-levels at Esher College, examining Classics, English Literature and Political History, however kept on taking acting parts which she thought would enlarge her experience as a performer. The account of a medication dependent server and her fellowship with the youthful child of a medication fanatic, Pure (2002), possessed Keira from January to March 2002. Additionally right now, Keira's first endeavor at Shakespeare was shot. She played "Helena" in a present day translation of a scene from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" entitled The Seasons Alter (2002). This was authorized by the ecological association "Futerra", of which Keira's mom is supporter. Keira got no charge for this execution or for another short film, New Year's Eve (2002), by recompense winning chief Col Spector. In any case, it was a chance experience with maker Andy Harriesat the London debut of Bridget Jones' Diary (2001) which constrained Keira to abandon her studies and seek after acting full-time. The meeting lead to a tryout for the part of "Larisa Feodorovna Guishar" - the exemplary champion of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago (2002), played broadly in the David Lean film by Julie Christie. This was to be a major spending plan TV film with a screenplay composed by Andrew Davies. Keira won the part and the smaller than expected arrangement was recorded all through the Spring of 2002 in Slovakia, co-featuring Sam Neill and Hans Matheson as "Yuri Zhivago". Keira adjusted off 2002 with a couple of scenes in the first motion picture to be coordinated by Blackadder and Vicar of Dibley writerRichard Curtis. Called Love Actually (2003), Keira played "Juliet", a love bird whose spouse's Best Man is covertly besotted with her. A motion picture recorded after Love Actually(2003) however discharged before it was to make the world sit up and consider this delightful new confronted youthful on-screen character with an adorable British pronunciation. It was a film which Keira practically passed up a great opportunity for, out and out. Tryouts were held in London for another blockbuster film called Pirates of the Caribbean: The Black's Curse Pearl (2003), however overwhelming activity in the city constrained Keira to be labeled on to the day's end tryouts list. It helped - she got the part. Shooting occurred in Los Angeles and the Caribbean from October 2002 to March 2003 and was discharged to gigantic film industry achievement and verging on all inclusive praise in the July of that year.
In the mean time, a little British film called Bend It Like Beckham (2002) had sneaked onto a North American discharge slate and was not really setting the movies land. Be that as it may, Keira's predominance in "Privateers" had set tongues wagging and inquiries being gotten some information about the performing artist playing "Elizabeth Swann". Too late, "Curve It's" merchants understood one of its two stars was the same young lady whose name was on everybody's lips because of "Privateers", and stepped of re-discharging "Twist It" to 1,000 screens over the US, catapulting it from no. 26 move down to no. 12. "Privateers", in the mean time, was battling off all contenders at the top spot, and stayed in the Top 3 for a mind boggling 21 weeks. It was maybe nothing unexpected, then, that Keira was on maker Jerry Bruckheimer's needed rundown for the piece of "Guinevere" in an arranged exact recounting the legend of "Ruler Arthur". Recording occurred in Ireland and Wales from June to November 2003. In July, Keira had turned into the superstar face of British gem specialist and extravagance products retailer, Asprey. At a photoshoot for the organization on Long Island New York in August, Keira met and became hopelessly enamored with Northern Irish model Jamie Dornan. Ruler Arthur (2004) was discharged in July 2004 to tepid surveys. It appears gatherings of people needed the legend all things considered, and not so much reality. Keira turned into the breakout star and 'one to watch in 2004' all through the world's media toward the end of 2003.
Keira's 2004 began off in Scotland and Canada shooting John Maybury's time-traveling thriller The Jacket (2005) with Oscar-victor Adrien Brody. An arranged motion picture of Deborah Moggach's novel, "Tulip Fever", about taboo affection in seventeenth Century Amsterdam, was crossed out in February after the British government all of a sudden shut assessment provisos which permitted movie producers to paw back a huge extent of their use. Because of star Keira and Jude Law in the primary parts, the film stays mothballed. Rather, Keira invested her energy carefully, going to Ethiopia for the benefit of the "Entertainment" philanthropy, and spending summer at different pretentious areas around the UK recording what guarantees to be a devoted adjustment of Jane Austen's exemplary novel Pride & Prejudice (2005), alongsideMatthew Macfadyen as "Mr. Darcy", and with Donald Sutherland and Judi Dench in supporting parts. In October 2004, Keira got her first real honor, the Hollywood Film Award for Best Breakthrough Actor - Female, and perusers of Empire Magazine voted her the Sexiet Movie Star Ever. The rest of 2004 saw Keira at the end of the day attempting a totally new type, this time the part-reality, part-fiction biography of model turned abundance seeker Domino (2005). 2005 began with the Jacket's debut (2005) at the Sundance Film Festival, with the US debut in LA on February 28th. A great part of the year was then spent in the Caribbean recording both spin-offs of Pirates Of The Caribbean. Keira's first significant introducing part arrived in a late-night bed-in drama clasp show for Comic Relief with moderator Johnny Vaughan. In late July, advancements began for the September arrival of Pride & Prejudice (2005), with British fans irritated to discover that the US form would end with a post-marriage kiss, however the European adaptation would not. By and by, when the motion picture opened in September on both sides of the Atlantic, Keira got her most noteworthy acclaim up to this point in her vocation, in the midst of much talk of honors. It burned through three weeks at No. 1 in the UK film industry.
Domino (2005) opened well in October, eclipsed by the demise of Domino Harvey prior in the year. Keira got Variety's Personality Of The Year Award in November, topped the next month by her first Golden Globe assignment, for Pride & Prejudice (2005). KeiraWeb.com solely declared that Keira would play Helene Joncour in an adjustment of Alessandro Baricco's novella Silk (2007). Pride & Prejudice (2005) collected six BAFTA selections toward the begin of 2006, however not Best Actress for Keira, a reality which withered not long after by the declaration she had gotten her first Academy Award designation
