British actress Keira Knightley has received an Oscar nomination for her incredible work in Pride and Prejudice and The Mimic Game . Her Oscar nominations are just two of numerous nominations that show just how far the actress has come in the game. She acts in a very special way and for those who have seen and loved her on screen, here are a few details of her off-screen life.
Who is Keira Knightley? Bio (Age)
Keira Knightley was born in London, England on 26. March 1985. Her family was all about show business, her father was an actor named Will Knightley and her mother was a playwright named Sharman Macdonald. She has an older brother, Caleb Knightley, with whom she grew up in suburban London. She has cited her childhood as an important reason for her later career choice, noting that she enjoys playing with dollhouses and staying at it for hours making up stories, and the joy of never wanting to stop may have influenced her decision to get into acting to go.
Along the same lines, Keira Knightley also requested for her own agent when she was only three years old. However, she got one when she was six years old. Young Keira struggled with dyslexia and had a very difficult time at school as a result. After getting her agent at 6, she got her first professional acting job at 7, where she appeared in British TV series. However, her first starring role came in her teens in the film Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace (1999). In 1999 she also had a supporting role in Oliver Twist a television series starring Julie Walters, Robert Lindsay and Sam Smith.
In 2002, the film do it like Beckham would give Keira Knightley her career breakthrough. In it, she played the role of a tomboy soccer player named Juliette “Jules” Paxton, and the film was a surprise hit. A year later in 2003 with Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Keira Knightley landed her first blockbuster hit. She played the role of Elizabeth Swann, who along with Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) was involved in the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp’s infamous pirate character. It was a role Keira Knightley would reprise in the 2006 and 2007 sequels Pirates of the Caribbean .
Keira Knightley has played Guinevere in King Arthur (2004) with Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (2005) and also in The Duchess (2008), an 18th-century biography royal. This showed that Knightley’s classic looks made her a contender for contemporary drama. She revealed that she likes contemporary and works in Europe, her home where mostly contemporary is made. Keira received her first Academy Award nomination for Pride and Prejudice . Her second came after she played part of a code-breaking streak in The Impersonation Game(2014) was a World War II drama. She received both Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for the supporting actress category for this part.
The talented actress made her Broadway debut in the play Thérèse Raquin, based on the 1867 novel Émile Zola, performed at the Roundabout Theater Company in New York. She has also worked as a model for advertising campaigns at companies such as Chanel.husband, daughter
Keira Knightley is currently married to a man named James Righton, but before meeting her current husband, she was in a four-year relationship with Rupert Friend. The two met on the set of Pride & Prejudice, but didn’t meet until after filming wrapped. They started dating in 2006, but in November 2010 they both had enough of each other and ended their relationship.
She was introduced to James Righton, a British musician who plays keyboards for the band known as the Klaxons through Alexa Chung, a mutual friend. The two began dating in 2011. In May 2012, Keira Knightley announced her engagement to James Righton and on May 4, 2015 the two were married in Mazan, Vaucluse, southern France. In May 2015, the couple welcomed their first child in London, a daughter they named Edie.
Body stats – height, weight
The British actress stands at a height of 5ft 7in or 170cm and weighs 54kg or 119 pounds. She maintains her slim figure by working with a personal trainer named Pierre Pozzuto and her hard work definitely pays off as the actress always looks fit and slim.
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