Birthday: March 26, 1985
Pixie-ish British actress Keira Knightley went from a relative unknown to a blockbuster leading lady after 2002's sleeper soccer flick Bend It Like Beckham caught on with an international audience. Born in Teddington, London, England, in 1985, young Knightley was enticed by the lure of cinema at an early age. Playwright mother Sharman McDonald and actor father Will Knightley were ...more- 2007
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- Best Actress
- Atonement
- 2007
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Atonement
- 2007
- Golden Satellite Award
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Atonement
- 2005
- National Society of Film Critics
- Best Actress - Runner-up
- Pride & Prejudice
- win
- 2005
- Chicago Film Critics Association
- Best Actress
- Pride & Prejudice
- 2011
- A Dangerous Method
- Sabina Spielrein
- 2010
- Never Let Me Go
- Ruth
- 2009
- The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers
- The Fairy
- 2008
- The Duchess
- Georgiana Spencer
- 2008
- The Edge of Love
- Vera Phillips





































