Keira Knightley

In London to the two actors Will Knightley and Sharman Macdonald, Knightley obtained an agent at the age of six. She initially was involved in television commercials as well as films. Knightley portrayed Sabe, a small character on the set of Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1998). She broke through with the 2002 sports documentary Bend It Like Beckham, in which she portrayed an adult soccer player. In 2003, Elizabeth Swann, a protagonist in the fantasy film Pirates of the Caribbean became hugely loved. In 2003, she was a star as a romantic in Love Actually and was called a promising teenager. Knightley got her first Academy Award nod for Best Actress in 2005, for her performance as Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine of the historical romance Pride & Prejudice. The actress appeared in a myriad of more period pieces, playing a complex love passion in Atonement (2007) and a tastemaker Georgiana Cavendish, in The Duchess (2008), and as the socialite who plays her of Anna Karenina (2012). The actress also appeared in contemporary dramas with her role as an aspiring musician on Begin Again (2013) and an medical student on Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). Knightley returned to historical films as Joan Clarke in The Imitation Game (2014) which earned her a nomination to the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film, as well as starring as the writer whose name is Colette (2018).