Keira Christina Knightley (born 26 March 1985) is an English actress. She began acting as a child on television and made her film debut in 1995. She had a supporting role as Sabé in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) and her first significant role came in the psychological horror film The Hole (2001). She gained widespread recognition in 2002 after co-starring in the film Bend It Like Beckham and achieved international fame in 2003 after appearing as Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. One of the highest-paid actresses of Hollywood, Knightley has won numerous awards and has garnered multiple nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award. Knightley became known for starring in period dramas such as Pride & Prejudice (2005), for which she earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress; Atonement (2007), for which she was nominated again for a Golden Globe; Silk (2007); The Duchess (2008); A Dangerous Method (2011); and Anna Karenina (2012). She has also appeared in a variety of other genres, including the romantic comedy Love Actually (2003), as Guinevere in the historical action King Arthur (2004), the psychological thriller The Jacket (2005), biographical action Domino (2005), the historical romantic drama The Edge of Love (2008), the film noir London Boulevard (2010), the dystopian science fiction Never Let Me Go (2010), the romantic drama Last Night (2010), the dark comedy Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012), the musical comedy-drama Begin Again (2013), the action spy thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) and the romantic comedy Laggies (2014). In 2014, Knightley was nominated for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the historical drama The Imitation Game. In October 2015, she made her Broadway debut in the title role of Thérèse Raquin. Her recent films include the biographical adventure film Everest (2015), the drama Collateral Beauty (2016) and her return to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in the fifth instalment, Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). In 2018, she will star as the novelist Colette in the biographical drama of the same name and in the Disney fantasy film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, as the Sugar Plum Fairy. In its 2008 list, Forbes identified Knightley as the second-highest-paid actress in Hollywood, with reported earnings of US$32 million in 2007, making her the only non-American on the list of highest-paid actresses that year.

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