Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Keira Christina Knightley was born on 26 March 1985 in the London suburb of Teddington, to stage actors Will Knightley and Sharman Macdonald. [2] She was meant to be named "Kiera", the anglicised form of "Kira", after the Soviet figure skater Kira Ivanova, whom her father admired; however, Macdonald misspelt the name when she registered her daughter's birth certificate, writing the e before ...
Keira Knightley Says Teenage Fame Financially 'Set Me Up for Life' but 'Came at a Big Cost' Personally. ... Knightley was just 18 years old when she starred in Pirates of the Caribbean: ...
At age 20-year-old Knightley became the third-youngest Best Actress nominee at the time for the former. She starred alongside James McAvoy in the romantic war drama Atonement (2007) and gained her first nomination for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
The film received positive reviews from critics upon release, with praise directed towards Knightley's performance. It received four nominations at the 78th Academy Awards, including Best Actress for the 20-year-old Knightley, making her the third-youngest Best Actress nominee at the time.
Keira Knightley has made it clear that she can do pretty much anything onscreen. Now, the 39-year-old is crushing it in a new Netflix action series where she's pretty much always on the go.
The actor was 17 years old when she shot these movies and 18 when they opened. Such instant fame as a teenager came at a “big price,” Knightley recently told the Los Angeles Times .
Keira Knightley at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. Keira Knightley is a British actress who began her career by appearing in commercials and television films, including The Treasure Seekers (1996), Coming Home (1998), and Oliver Twist (1999) [1] before making her major motion picture debut in the space-opera epic Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) as Padmé ...
The Oscar nominee was just 17 years old when she debuted as Elizabeth Swann in 2003’s “Curse of the Black Pearl.” Two “Pirates” sequels followed: 2006’s “Dead Man’s Chest” and ...