Keira Knightley movies

born 26 March 1985) is an Academy Award-nominated English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress, and came to international prominence in 2003, after co-starring in the films Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Knightley has since become a notable lead actress, having appeared in several Hollywood films and earning an Academy Award nomination for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wrights 2005 adaptation of Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice.BiographyEarly lifeKnightley was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England to Sharman Macdonald, a Scottish actress turned award-winning playwright, and Will Knightley, an English theatre and television actor.

She has an elder brother, Caleb who was born in 1979. Knightley lived most of her life in Richmond, attending Teddington School and Esher College. Knightley suffers from dyslexia, but nevertheless achieved good grades in school to please her parents, and was thus permitted to acquire a talent agent and pursue an acting career. Knightley has noted that she was "single-minded about acting" during her childhood. She performed in a number of local amateur productions including After Juliet (written by her mother) and United States (written by her then drama teacher, Ian McShane).|Keira as Elizabeth in Pirates of the Caribbean
Knightley began acting at age seven in her television debut in Royal Celebration (1993) and appearing on the television series, The Bill (1995). She appeared in several other made-for-television films in the mid to late 1990s, before being cast as Sabé, Padmé Amidalas decoy, in the 1999 science fiction blockbuster Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace.

Keira Knightley Movies

All movies starring Keira Knightley.

• The Hole
• Bend It Like Beckham
• King Arthur
• Love Actually
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• Pure
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl