Keira Knightley

Knightley was born in London, born in London, the youngest daughter of Will Knightley and Sharman Mcdonald. She obtained her first agent when she was six years old. At that age, she started working in the fields of commercials and television. In 1999, she portrayed Sabe in Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Her first big breakthrough was as a tomboy footballer in the film Bend It Like Beckham (2002) which later achieved international fame for her role as Elizabeth Swann in the swashbuckler fantasy series Pirates of the Caribbean, starting in 2003. She was a part of the romantic comedy Love Actually (2003) and was described as a promising teenage movie star. Knightley got the Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in the role of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005). The actress appeared in a myriad of other period films, playing a complex love attraction at the end of Atonement (2007) as well as a foodie Georgiana Cavendish, in The Duchess (2008), and playing the titular socialite as Anna Karenina. Anna Karenina (2012). She forayed into contemporary dramas, appearing as an aspiring musician as a musician in Begin Again (2013) and a Medical student for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). Knightley made a return to dramatic dramas from the past, as Joan Clarke, in The Imitation Game in which she brought her the Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Also, she appeared in Colette in the role of the title writer.