Keira Knightley

Born in London to the actors Will Knightley and Sharman Macdonald, Knightley obtained an agent at the age of six. She initially employed in TV commercials and films. In 1999, she was Sabe for the role of Sabe Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Her breakthrough came in 2002's sports movie Bend It Like Beckham, in which she was adolescent footballer. In 2003, Elizabeth Swann, a character from the fantasy show Pirates of the Caribbean became hugely popular. In 2003, she appeared in the romantic comedy Love Actually and was called a promising young woman. Knightley received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005). She was also a star in a range of additional period works in which she played a complicated love interest In Atonement (2007) also a tastemaker Georgiana Cavendish as The Duchess (2008), and as the socialite who plays her of Anna Karenina (2012). In contemporary dramas, she branched out with her role as an aspiring musician on Begin Again (2013) and an physician in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). Knightley returned to historical films in the role of Joan Clarke in The Imitation Game (2014) which earned her an nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress She also played the eponymous writer in Colette (2018).