Keira Knightley

Knightley was born in London she was born in London, the youngest daughter of Will Knightley and Sharman Mcdonald. She was first spotted by an agent when she was six years old. Then she began to work on commercials and television. In 1999, she was Sabe on Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Her breakthrough came in the 2002 sports drama Bend It Like Beckham, in which she was young football player. In 2003, Elizabeth Swann, a swashbuckler in the fantasy series Pirates of the Caribbean became incredibly famous. Knightley was regarded as one of the promising young stars following her being featured in Love Actually (2003). Knightley won her first Academy Award nod for Best Actress in 2005 when she played Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in the classic romance Pride & Prejudice. Apart from Atonement as a character, she acted in the role of Georgiana Cavendish as the tastemaker in The Duchess and Anna Karenina's titular socialite. The actress also ventured into modern dramatics. Begin Again, (2013) was a role for her as the role of a singer who is aspiring to be one, while Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, (2014) saw her as a medical student. Knightley returned to historical films as Joan Clarke in The Imitation Game (2014) that earned her a nomination to The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress she also acted as the eponymous writer in Colette (2018).