Keira Knightley

The US Trends | Keira Knightley | Keira Knightley, born Keira Christina Knightley on 26 March 1985 inLondon, England,is anEnglish actress and model. Shebegan acting as achild and cameto international notice in2002 after co-starring inthe film Bend It Like Beckham. From2003 her appearances inthe Pirates ofthe Caribbean film series tookher tomuch greater prominence.

Keira Knightley has appeared inseveral Hollywood films andearned nominations forthe Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet inJoe Wright's2005 adaptation ofJane Austen'snovel Pride and Prejudice. Twoyears later she againwas nominated forthe Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, aswell asthe BAFTA Award for Best Actress inaLeading Role for herperformance in Atonement.

In 2008, Forbes claimed Keira 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.

Keira Knightley was born in Teddington, London, England, the daughter of Sharman MacDonald, an award-winning playwright, and Will Knightley, a theatre and television actor. Her father is English and her Scottish mother is of half Welsh ancestry. She has an elder brother, Caleb. Knightley, born Kiera, switched her name to Keira to make it easier for international audiences to pronounce.

Keira lived in Richmond, attending Stanley Junior School, Teddington School and Esher College. She was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of six, but nevertheless was successful in school and was thus permitted to acquire a talent agent and pursue an acting career. She requested an agent as early as the age of three and got one when she turned six, from her mother as a reward for studying hard. Knightley has noted that she was "single-minded about acting" during her childhood. She performed in a number of local amateur productions, including After Juliet (written by her mother) and United States (written by her then drama teacher, Ian McShane, no relation to the actor of the same name). She focused on art, history, and English literature while at Esher, but left after a year to focus on her acting and she also turned down her spot at the London Academy of Music and Drama.

Keira Knightley, who lives in London, had a relationship with actor Jamie Dornan. They were first seen together in 2003, and split up in 2005. She dated her Pride & Prejudice co-star Rupert Friend from 2005 until the couple split in December 2010. She has reportedly been dating James Righton since late February 2011.

Keira Knightley has denied rumors that are anorexic, although she says, after HERappearance in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest from the media has led to speculation that her extremely thin figure is due to an eating disorder, that HERfamily has a history of anorexia. Knightley sued the Daily Mail, after she claimed to have lied to anorexia, the article said that a girl died from anorexia nervosa, which indicates that the appearance OF Knightley may have influenceD HER in someway. SHe got the solution.

In July 2006, Keira Knightley said that SHEhas become a workaholic, in detail, that "over the past five years are blended together. I can not tell you what it was last year and what was the year before" and specifying that was "working too much" and was "full of fear, that if I continue at this rate I will start to hate what I love," which refers to the fact that it would take a year off from acting to travel and focus onher personal life.

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