Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley is a British actress, born in London on 26 March 1985 to the actor Will Knightley and the Scottish playwright Sharman Macdonald. She began working in commercials and television films as a child, and appeared in Star Wars: Episode I in a minor role as Sabe before her breakthrough in Bend It Like Beckham and Love Actually. She became widely recognised as Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, and is especially associated with period dramas such as Pride and Prejudice, Atonement, The Duchess and Anna Karenina. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Pride and Prejudice and for Best Supporting Actress for The Imitation Game, and she won the Empire Award for Best Actress for Atonement. More recently she has starred in the film Colette and the Netflix series Black Doves, and she was appointed an OBE in 2018.