Keira Christina Knightley, OBE (/ˈkɪərə ˈnaɪtli/; born 26 March
1985) is a British actress. Her starring roles in independent films,
and period dramas as well as big-budget blockbuster productions have
earned her nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, three
Golden Globe Awards, three British Independent Film Awards, and two
Academy Awards.Knightley began acting as a child on television and
made her feature film debut in 1995, before making her breakthrough
with the 2002 sports film Bend It Like Beckham, for which she won the
London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Newcomer. She gained wider
recognition for playing Elizabeth Swann in the 2003 fantasy
swashbuckler film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black
Pearl, a role she reprised in subsequent films of the
franchise.Knightley received a nomination for the Academy Award for
Best Actress for starring as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice
(2005) and later became known for starring in several other period
dramas, earning praise for her roles as Cecilia Tallis in Atonement
(2007), Georgiana Cavendish in The Duchess (2008), and the titular
characters in Anna Karenina (2012) and Colette (2018). Knightley
received her second Academy Award nomination for portraying Joan
Clarke in the historical film The Imitation Game (2014), as she
continued to experiment with comedic and dramatic roles in the musical
film Begin Again (2013), the adventure thriller Everest (2015), and
the docudrama Official Secrets (2019).
1985) is a British actress. Her starring roles in independent films,
and period dramas as well as big-budget blockbuster productions have
earned her nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, three
Golden Globe Awards, three British Independent Film Awards, and two
Academy Awards.Knightley began acting as a child on television and
made her feature film debut in 1995, before making her breakthrough
with the 2002 sports film Bend It Like Beckham, for which she won the
London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Newcomer. She gained wider
recognition for playing Elizabeth Swann in the 2003 fantasy
swashbuckler film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black
Pearl, a role she reprised in subsequent films of the
franchise.Knightley received a nomination for the Academy Award for
Best Actress for starring as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice
(2005) and later became known for starring in several other period
dramas, earning praise for her roles as Cecilia Tallis in Atonement
(2007), Georgiana Cavendish in The Duchess (2008), and the titular
characters in Anna Karenina (2012) and Colette (2018). Knightley
received her second Academy Award nomination for portraying Joan
Clarke in the historical film The Imitation Game (2014), as she
continued to experiment with comedic and dramatic roles in the musical
film Begin Again (2013), the adventure thriller Everest (2015), and
the docudrama Official Secrets (2019).
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