Keira Knightley
She was raised in London to actors Will Knightley and Sharman Macdonald, Knightley obtained an agent aged six. Initially, she was involved in television commercials as well as films. She had a minor role as Sabe in the space-opera Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). After gaining international fame as a character in the fantasy show Pirates of the Caribbean in 2003 in the role of Elizabeth Swann (a swashbuckling footballer) and was able to debut as a character in the film sports Bend It Like Beckham in where she played a tomboy. Knightley was regarded as an exciting young star following her having a role in Love Actually (2003). Knightley earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005). She starred in a number of other period films, playing a complex love relationship on the screen in Atonement (2007), tastemaker Georgiana Cavendish as The Duchess (2008), and playing the titular socialite as Anna Karenina. Anna Karenina (2012). In addition, she branched out into modern dramatics. Begin Again, (2013) saw her play an aspirant singer, and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, (2014) saw her as a medical student. Knightley made a return to the world of historical film as Joan Clarke in The Imitation Game (2014) that earned her a nomination to the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress She also played the writer of the same name in Colette (2018).



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