Keira Knightley
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Height: 1.70 m
Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 17 wins & 38 nominations »
Alternate Names: Kiera Knightley
Biography: The daughter of actor Will Knightley and playwright Sharman Macdonald. After she requested an agent at the age of three, her parents allowed her to work on productions in her summer holidays. Her firs... More »
Filmography
The Beautiful and the Damned (2011)
The Emperor's Children (2011)
A Dangerous Method (2011)
Last Night (2010)
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he\'s attracted. While he\'s resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
London Boulevard (2010)
Never Let Me Go (2010)
As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school...
The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers (2009)
Looking Over: The Edge of Love (2008)
The Duchess (2008)
Long before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley), was the original \"It Girl.\" Like her direct ancestor Princess Diana, she was ravishing, glamorous and adored by an entire country. Determined to be a player in the wider affairs of the world, she proved that she could out-gamble, out-drink and outwit most of the aristocratic men who surrounded her. She helped usher in sweeping changes to England as a leader of the forward-thinking Whig Party. But even as her power and popularity grew, she was haunted by the fact that the only man in England she seemingly could not seduce was her very own husband, the Duke (Ralph Fiennes). And when she tried to find her own way to be true to her heart and loyal to her duty, the resulting controversies and convoluted liaisons would leave all of London talking. \"The Duchess\" is the story of an extraordinary woman who rose to fame by staying true to her passions in a world of protocol, gossip and social rules – and paid the price. Academy Award® nominee Knightley and Academy Award® winner Fiennes head an international cast that also includes Dominic Cooper (\"The History Boys\") as the abolitionist Charles Grey, the Duchess\'s favorite lover; Haley Atwell (\"Cassandra\'s Dream\") as the Duchess\'s alluring best friend and rival, Lady Elizabeth \"Bess\" Spencer; and Charlotte Rampling (\"Swimming Pool\") as the Duchess\'s mother, the Lady Spencer. Rising UK director Saul Dibb (\"Bullet Boy,\" \"The Line of Beauty\") brings to life a vibrantly lavish, yet rapidly changing England in the time of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the madness of King George. The film is written by Dibb, Jeffrey Hatcher (\"Casanova\") and Anders Thomas Jensen (\"After the Wedding\") based on the award-winning biography Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman. The producers are Gabrielle Tana and Michael Kuhn. The executive producer is Carolyn Marks Blackwood.
The Edge of Love (2008)
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind (2007)
Silk (2007)
The story of a married silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler in 19th century France traveling to Japan for his town's supply of silkworms after a disease wipes out their African supply. During his stay in Japan, he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.
Atonement (2007)
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister\\\'s lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Elizabeth is captured by the oriental pirate Sao-Feng, while more problems surface and other rescues must be staged.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Once again thrown into the world of the supernatural, Captain Jack Sparrow finds out that he owes a blood debt to the legendary Davey Jones, Captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. With time running out, Jack must find a way out of his debt or else be doomed to eternal damnation and servitude in the afterlife. And as if this weren't enough, the Captain's problems manage to wreck the wedding plans of a certain Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who are forced to join Jack on yet another misadventure.
Domino (2005)
From director Tony Scott and inspired by a real-life story, Keira Knightley stars as Domino Harvey, who rejected her privileged Beverly Hills lifestyle as the daughter of a famous actor (Lawrence Harvey) and a Ford agency model to become a bounty hunter in pursuit of society's nastiest criminals. The film features a diverse supporting cast including Lucy Liu, Christopher Walken, Mena Suvari, Mickey Rourke, Jacqueline Bisset and Delroy Lindo.
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
An opinionated young woman and an arrogant, aristocrat overcome their initial antipathy and various other social obstacles to fall in love.
The Jacket (2005)
The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He is hitching and gets picked up by a stranger, things go pear shaped when a cop pulls them over and is murdered by the stranger. The vet. is wrongly accused of killing the cop and lands up in an asylum. A quack doctor prescribes a course of experimental therapy, restraining him in a heavy duty straight jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. During course of his treatment he gets flashbacks and visions of his future , where he can foresee he is to die in four days time. The catch is he doesn\'t know how. Thus commences the classic race against time.
