Keira Christina Knightley (born 26 protestst 1985) is an English performerer and classicic. She began acting as a productct and came to international notice in 2002 similar toar to co starring in the film Bend It Like Beckham. From 2003, her appearances in the Pirates of the Caribbean film cycletook her to much greater prominence. Clothed inothed in 2008, Forbes claimed Knightley to be the flashhighest paid performerer in Hollywood, having purportedlyy earned $32 million in 2007, making her the solitarytary non-American on the file of highest paid actresses. Knightley has appeared in several Hollywood films and earned nominations in place ofplace of the Academy Award in place ofplace of Best Actress and Golden Globe Award in place ofplace of Best Actress in place ofplace of her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. Two years soonshe again was nominated in place ofplace of the Golden Globe Award in place ofplace of Best Actress, as well as the BAFTA Award in place ofplace of Best Actress in a Leading Role in place ofplace of her performance in Atonement.
Career
1993–2002
After getting an agent by the side of the side of 6, she did toil mostly on commercials and small televisionlevision roles. Her basic role was tinyirl in Royal Celebration, a 1993 televisionlevision film A time soon she had a small role in the filmA Village Affair. She soonstarred in 1995's Innocent Lies and 1998's Coming Home. She was a princess in the 1996 filmThe Treasure Seekers. Later in 1999, she appeared as Rose in Oliver Twist. Keira Knightley appeared in several television films in the middledle to last-minute-minute 1990s as well as ITV1's The amountnt byng cast as Sabé, Padmé Amidala's distractact, in the 1999 science fiction blockbuster Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Sabé's dialogue was dubbed onith Natalie Portman's voice. This was to withholdhold the verityty with the aim of the aim of the handmaiden Padmé (played by Natalie Portman) was in point of fact of fact disclosed as the real Queen Amidala by the side of the side of the last partt part of the film. Knightley was cast in the role due to her close resemblance to Portman; even the two actresses' mothers had inconveniencence significantcant their daughters apart whilstst the girls were in rotundnd compositionition.
Knightley's basic starring role followed in 2001, whilstst she played the daughter of Robin Hood in the made in place ofplace of television Walt Disney Productions element, Princess of Thieves. She educatedd in place ofplace of several weeks in archery, sword fighting, and horse riding. During this scheduledule, Knightley besidesdes appeared in The Hole, a spy storyy with the aim of the aim of traditionalnal a target to capture on tapere on tape liberationion in the United States. She appeared in a miniseries adaptation of Doctor Zhivago which basic aired in 2002 to sundryy reviews but prohibitiveibitive ratings. Clothed inothed in the same time, she besidesdes was in the filmPure, in which she portrays a pregnant teenager who is a heroin addict and had a productct taken by social services.[18] Knightley's breakthrough role was in the football themed film, Bend It Like Beckham, which was a achievementment in its majesticic 2002 UK liberationion, grossing $18 million, and in its protestst 2003 U.S. Liberationion, grossing $32 million.
2003–2007
After Bend It Like Beckham's UK liberationion raised her profile, she was cast in the great bigat big planogfightht film, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black nuggett (along with Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp) which was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and opened in July 2003 to helpfulreviews and prohibitiveibitive box companyy grosses, suitable singlegle of the biggest hits of summer 2003 and cementing Knightley as the anotherther It girl. Knightley had a role in the British romantic comedy passionion Actually, which opened in November 2003, which co starred her childhood idol Emma Thompson. Her subsequentlyequently film, queenn Arthur, opened in July 2004 to harmfulreviews, however in groundworkin place ofplace of the role she took boxing, fighting, archery, and horseback riding teachingg in place ofplace of four days a week in place ofplace of three months. Clothed inothed in the same month, Knightley was voted by readers of Hello! Magazine as the film industry's nearly everyonely everyone promising youngstergster star. Additionally, TIME magazine famouss in a 2004 element with the aim of the aim of Knightley seemed committed to on the increaserease herself as a serious performerer considerablyerably than a film star.
She appeared in three films in 2005, the basic of which was The Jacket, alongside Adrien Brody. She subsequentlyequently appeared in Tony Scott's Domino, an dogfightht film based on the life of bounty hunter Domino Harvey. The film has been Knightley's furthermostost essentiall fiascoco to engagementgement. Knightley's critics often suggested she was nothing more than a pretty look, which led the adolescentscent starlet to comment to Elle magazine, "I every timetime feel like I’m the singlegle with everything to corroborateborate. Pride & Prejudice rounded barredred 2005. Knightley loved the put your name down foryour name down for since she was seven, and with her basic acting incomehe bought a dollhouse of the hero's manorShe thoughtght of her character, The beauty of Elizabeth is with the aim of the aim of eachwoman who continuallyinually reads the put your name down foryour name down for seems to recognise herself, with all her faults and imperfections. If you allott an performerer who is even at alligh-quality-quality the abilityy to theatrical productiontrical production a fantastic character like with the aim of the aim of, they are going away away to revel in it. Variety wrote not far off fromar off from her portrayal of Elizabeth Bennet: Looking eachcrumbmb a star, Knightley, who's given away away more spirit than acting smarts so far in her career, really steps up to the plate at this pointhis point, holding her own contrary toy to the more characteristicallytically educatedd Matthew Macfadyen, as well as vets like Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Penelope Wilton, and Judi Dench with a shimmeringng strength with the aim of the aim of recalls a adolescentscent Audrey Hepburn. Extraa than the elder Jennifer Ehle in the televisionlevision cycle she catches Elizabeth's essential skittishness and childish braggadocio, making her final conversion all the more poignantnt. The film grossed more than $100 million worldwide, and Knightley earned a Golden Globe proposalnd an Oscar proposalthe Oscar ultimately went to Reese Witherspoon). The Academy Award proposalade her the third youngest entertainerer continuallyinually nominated. BAFTA's decision not to nominate her drew reportom Pride & Prejudice producer Tim Bevan. Clothed inothed in 2006, Knightley was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her biggest economicdestroytroy like so so far, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, was released in July 2006.
Knightley starred in three major films in 2007: Silk, an adaptation of the novel by Alessandro Baricco, Atonement, a element film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel of the same refer tor to (co starring James McAvoy, Vanessa Redgrave, and Brenda Blethyn), and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which was released in May 2007. For her performance in Atonement, Knightley was nominated in place ofplace of a Golden Globe Award in the Best Dramatic Actress kindplace ofplace of the role, as well as a BAFTA Award. Critic Richard Roeper was puzzled by both Knightley's and McAvoy's Academy Award snubs, stating I thinkingg McAvoy and Knightley were superb.
2008–present
Clothed inothed in 2008, Knightley appeared in The Edge of passionion with Cillian Murphy as her companionon, Matthew Rhys as her childhood sweetheart Welsh lyricistcist Dylan Thomas, and Sienna Miller as Thomas' wife Caitlin Macnamara. She traditionalnal helpfulreviews in place ofplace of her role. The film was penned by Knightley's look afterfter, Sharman Macdonald, and directed by John Maybury. She after thatr that filmed The Duchess, based on the superlativerlative promotionon biography, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, in which she played Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire; the film was released in cinemas on 5 September 2008 in the U.K. Clothed inothed in 2009, Knightley made her West End first appearance appearance in Martin Crimp's version of Molière's comedy, The Misanthrope, by the side of the side of the Comedy Theatre in London alongside Damian Lewis, Tara FitzGerald, and Dominic Rowan. In December 2009. Reviews in place ofplace of her portrayal of Jennifer in the theatrical productiontrical production were in the mainin helpful The Daily Telegraph described her performance as illuminatinging both power and poignancy and The Independent called her performance not solitarytary unusuallyconvincing but, by the side of the side of time considerablyerably thrilling in its satiric coolhe Guardian, however, famouss with the aim of the aim of due to the nature of the role singlegle may wellell say with the aim of the aim of she is not unduly stretched and The Daily Mail described her as little better than acceptablele and dull and the Daily Express acknowledgedledged with the aim of the aim of Her lack of stage experience is on occasionon painfully evident. Knightley has been nominated in place ofplace of the Laurence Olivier Award as Best Supporting Actress as Jennifer in The Misanthrope, recognising her theatre first appearance appearance. Knightley besidesdes traditionalnal an Evening Standard Award proposaln place ofplace of the Natasha Richardson Award in place ofplace of Best Actress.
Clothed inothed in 2010, Knightley appeared in the drama Last Night, in which she co starred with Eva Mendes, Sam Worthington, and Guillaume Canet; it was directed by Massy Tadjedin. The same time, Knightley completetoil on an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novel, Never Let Me Go with Andrew Garfield and Carey Mulligan. Filming took place in Norfolk and Clevedon in Somerset. Also in 2010, she starred in London Boulevard with Colin Farrell, in black and whitek and white by William Monahan. Knightley's solitarytary film of 2011 was David Cronenberg's historical drama A Dangerous Method, co starring Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, and Vincent Cassel. Based on writer Christopher Hampton's 2002 stage theatrical productiontrical production The Talking Cure and collectionlection on the eve of World War I, the film depicts the unrulylationships sandwiched betweenhed between baby bird psychiatrist Carl Jung, his guruigmund Freud, and Sabina Spielrein, played by Knightley, the troubled but beautiful adolescentscent analystomes sandwiched betweenhed between them. The outfitfilm premiered by the side of the side of the 68th Venice International Film Festival to a helpfulreception, while Knightley, who had almost backed barredred of the filmdue to its opennes, earned in the mainin favourable reviews by critics, with Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.Com noting her "the real star of this film. Knightley is slated to appear in The Emperor's Children with Rachel McAdams, Emma Thompson and Richard Gere. The film, a dark comedy, was in black and whitek and white by Noah Baumbach and will be directed by Scott Cooper. Clothed inothed in addition, she has reunited with director Joe Wright in place ofplace of the production of Anna Karenina (2012), in which she will star as the title character. She besidesdes appeared with Steve Carrell in 2012's Seeking a Friend in place ofplace of the End of the World.
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