Keira Knightley
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Birth Date: March 26, 1983
Birth Place: Teddington, London, England, UK
Height: 5′ 7″
Eye color: Brown
Sex: Female
Nationality: British
Profession: Actress
Education: Teddington School, At 16, She went to Esher College to study for her A Levels, but quit the course when offered the role of Lara in Doctor Zhivago (2002) (TV).
Personal interests/hobbies: Dancing, collects shoes
Notable feature(s): High defined cheekbones, strong square jawline
Relationship: Rupert Friend (actor; began dating on January 2006), Kaz James (Aussie DJ), Jamie Dornan (Irish model; broke up in 2005)
Father: Will Knightley (actor; born on April 23, 1946)
Mother: Sharman Macdonald (writer; born in 1951)
Brother: Caleb Knightley (born in 1979)
Claim to fame: Soccer-playing tomboy Juliette Paxton in Bend it Like Beckham (2003)
Charities/Causes:
* The Children’s Charity of Southern California
* She once visited Ethiopia on behalf of the Comic Relief charity.
* Donated the Vera Wang dress she wore to the 78th Oscar to raise money for Oxfam’s relief work in East Africa.
* Spokesperson of the British Dyslexia Association.
Other:
* Though Keira Knightley had dyslexia, she overcame it with encouragement from her parents.
* Keira Knightley has a sentimental streak. She keeps souvenirs from her movies, including Lara’s coats from Doctor Zhivago and Elizabeth Bennett’s striped socks from Pride & Prejudice.
* Credits her dark looks to her mother’s Black Scottish heritage, who were descendants of the Spanish Armada.
* Supports West Ham United.
* Member of the Heathham House Youth Project
* Shares birthday with poet Robert Frost & playwright Tennessee Williams
* She has bought a flat in Richmond Upon Thames (2005) but has said to have only have spent a few weeks there. However, she plans to fill it with her own painted canvases.
* At age 20, she was the third-youngest woman in Oscar history to be nominated for Best Actress.
Keira Knightley Short Biography
Keira Christina Knightley (pronounced /ˌkɪərəˈnaɪtlɪ/; born 26 March 1985) is an English film actress. She began her career as a child 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 appeared in several Hollywood films and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. Two years later she again was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Atonement.
In 2008, Forbes claimed Knightley to be the second highest paid actress in Hollywood, having reportedly earned $32 million in 2007, making her the only non-American on the list of highest paid actresses.
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