Name: Keira Knightley
Birth Date: March 22, 1985
Birth Place: Teddington, London, England, UK
Height: 5' 7
Profession: Actress
Nationality: British
Mother: Sharman MacDonald, actress and playwright
Father: Will Knightley, actor
Siblings: one brother, Caleb (24)
Boyfriend: Jamie Dornan, model and actor
First Movie: "A Village Affair" at age 9
Breakthrough: "Bend It Like Beckham"
Favourite Movie: Star Wars movies
Favourite TV Shows: Neighbours
Favourite Music: Eminem, Nirvana
Favourite Food: italian
Favourite Actresses: Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn
Hobbies: watching fils, boxing
Random Facts
Keira's Dad agreed to have a second child if her mother sold a script, she wrote "When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout" and London's Bush Theater bought it, and later it was done at West End too. Because of that Keira still calls herself a "Bush baby".
She's dyslexic and her brother is too.
She did ballet as a kid.
She won the British Newcomer of the Year trophy courtesy of the London Critics Circle Film Awards
and Best Actress award by the Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema (where she Parminder Nagra), both for her performance in "Bend It Like Beckham".
She's a member of the Heathham House Youth Project.
She supports Westham United.
Tatler announced her "Most Desirable Woman" of 2004.
She was chosen "Most Glamorous Film Actress" by Glamour on 2004.
She was chosen on Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It List".
Her first nude scene was when she was 16 in "The Hole".
Dated former cast member of "Princess Of Thieves" Del Synoot.
Has been credited as Kiera too.
She was soley cast by Curtis for "Love Actually" because of his liking for her belly piercing.
"Bend It Like Beckham" made $25,335,497 on the box office.
"Pirates of the Caribbean" over $600,000,000 worldwide.
She claims to have beaten the men hands down during King Arthur's training "boot camp". And she was by far the best in archery.
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