Keira Knightley

BIOGRAPHY

A British film and television actress, Keira Christina Knightley rose to fame with Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham. Thereafter, she appeared in a number of acclaimed films like Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Love Actually (2003), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), The Imitation Game (2014), and Everest (2015). For starring in period dramas like Pride and Prejudice and Imitation Game, Knightley received Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Forbes magazine, in 2008, listed her as the second highest paid actress in Hollywood, after Cameron Diaz. She has also been the brand ambassador of Chanel's fragrance ''Mademoiselle''.
Did you Know?
In Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), the makeup of both the actresses- Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman was so good that even their mothers couldn't identify them..


In 2004, Knightley was listed #1 in New Woman magazine's 50 Most Beautiful Celebs.

Keira Knightley has a fetish for collecting shoes.Keira's first name means 'dark'.