Keira Knightley
In London to the two actors Will Knightley and Sharman Macdonald, Knightley obtained an agent when she was just six years old and employed in TV commercials and films. The role she played was a small one as Sabe in the space-opera Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). Her breakthrough came as a tomboy footballer in the sports movie Bend It Like Beckham (2002) in which she later achieved the world's attention for her performance as Elizabeth Swann in the swashbuckler fantasy show Pirates of the Caribbean, from 2003. She was a part of the romantic comedy Love Actually (2003) and was considered a promising young star. Knightley received the Academy Award nod for Best Actress in 2005 when she played Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in the classic romance Pride & Prejudice. The actress appeared in a myriad of additional period works, playing a complex love attraction In Atonement (2007) as well as a foodie Georgiana Cavendish as The Duchess (2008), as well as the socialite of the title as Anna Karenina. Anna Karenina (2012). She forayed into contemporary dramas and acted as an ambitious singer on Begin Again (2013) and the doctor on Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). Knightley returned to dramatic dramas from the past, as Joan Clarke, in The Imitation Game that earned her the Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Additionally, she appeared in Colette in the role of the title writer.
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