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Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley : Biography

Keira Christina Knightley was born on March 22, 1986 to parents Sharman Macdonald (actress-turned-playwrite) and Will Knightley (actor) in Teddington, England. Her older brother, Caleb Knightley, was born in 1979. At the age of three, Keira asked for an agent (having seen her parents' agents visit her home), but it wasn't until she was six-years-old that her parents let her have one under the condition that she work hard at school. Keira's first role was when she was six-years-old as 'little girl' in the television movie, A Royal Celebration (1993), also starring Minnie Driver. After that, she went on to star in such films as Innocent Lies (1995) and Treasure Seekers (1996), based on Edith Nesbit's novel of the same name, and even guest-starred on the British television show "The Bill" playing a character called Sheena Rose in the episode The Swan Song in April 1995. Her first blockbuster role was the part of actress Natalie Portman's Queen Amidala's decoy in the first prequel installment of George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy, The Phantom Menace (1999). Although she got little recognition (it was believed Natalie Portman played both the queen and her decoy), Keira went on to play parts in television roles in Oliver Twist (1999) and Disney's Princess of Thieves (2001) as Robin Hood's daughter. It wasn't until Keira starred in Gurinder Chadha's indie hit, Bend It Like Beckham (2002), that Keira gained more recognition as well as critical acclaim. Following her success playing tomboy Jules Paxton, Keira starred in more gritty films as a drug-addict in Pure (2002) and the troubled Lara Antipova in the television mini-series, Doctor Zhivago (2002), a role made famous by Julie Christie in 1965. 2003 was Keira's North American breakthrough year when played Elizabeth Swann in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl alongside such actors as Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Geoffrey Rush. She then starred in Richard Curtis' romantic comedy, Love Actually (2003) opposite the likes of Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman. Within the next year, Keira underwent intense training for the role of warrior queen Guinevere in King Arthur (2004). Ray Winstone and Clive Owen also had roles in the film. Keira's next role was with Adrien Brody in The Jacket (2005), her first role with an American accent. She will be seen in the upcoming films Domino (2005), playing real-life bounty hunter, Domino Harvey; and as Jane Austen's heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice (2005). Keira is currently working on completing the last two films of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, which should be finished filming at the end of January 2006.

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