Keira Knightley's biography

Keira Christina Knightley is 37 years old actor born at Teddington. Keira was born on Tuesday 26th of March 1985. She is often nicknamed as Keik, Keira Christina Knightley, Keira Knightley. According to year of birth 1985 she belongs to Millennials. Birthday on 26th of March means Keira is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.

Keira is white british. She is citizen of United Kingdom. Keira is atheist. Keira´s primary profession is to be actor. You can know her also as television actor, film actor, voice actor, model. She is recently known as stage actor. She received Teen Choice Award for Choice Hissy Fit Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest in 2006

Keira Knightley's dad

Keira Knightley's father's name is Will Knightley. He is known as stage actor. Her father was born on Tuesday 23rd of April 1946 in London.

Keira Knightley's mom

Keira Knightley's mother's name is Sharman Macdonald. She is known as playwright. Her mother was born on Thursday 8th of February 1951 in Glasgow. Keira Knightley was born when she was 34 years old.

Keira Knightley's family

Keira Knightley's husband

James is known as musician. Keira´s husband was born on Thursday 25th of August 1983 in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Keira Knightley's ex husband

Keira Knightley's schools

We found 2 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: Esher College, Teddington School.

Detailed informations about Keira´s schools

Keira studied high school - Stanley Junior School, Teddington School, Waldegrave School For Girls.

Keira studied university - Esher College.

Keira Knightley's career

Her main focus is to be actor. Keira is famous thanks to Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean. You could see her also in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Atonement.

Is Keira Knightley gay ?

Keira is known to be straight.

Keira Knightley's boyfriends

Rupert Friend

Keira Knightley and Rupert Friend have been together since 2006 for 4 years. Rupert is known as actor. Keira´s boyfriend was born on Thursday 1st of October 1981 in Cambridge.

Jamie Dornan

Keira Knightley and Jamie Dornan have been together since 2003 for 2 years. He is known as actor. Keira´s boyfriend was born on Saturday 1st of May 1982 in Holywood.

Del Synnott

Keira Knightley and Del Synnott have been together. He is known as actor. Keira´s boyfriend was born on Monday 17th of October 1977 in Dublin.

Awards and competitions

Keira Knightley's Awards

Employed a stylist to dress her for premieres and award ceremonies. The stylist also dresses Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Kidman.
Recentlly awarded the TCFF North Star Award for Excellence, for performances in "The Laggies" and "The Imitation Game".
She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama and charity in London, England.

Keira Knightley's Rankings

Ranked #18 in the 2005 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
Ranked #11 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement.
Ranked #9 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2006 list.
Ranked #5 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement.
Ranked #20 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2007 list.
Ranked #10 on Forbes List of The 20 Top-Earning Young Superstars (2007).
Ranked #9 in Empire magazine's list of 100 Sexiest Stars.
Ranked #5 on Entertainment Weekly's "30 Under 30" the actress list (2008).
Ranked #87 on the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
Ranked #10 in the 2008 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
Ranked #29 in the 2011 FHM Australia list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
Ranked #69 in the 2011 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
Ranked #54 in the 2010 FHM UK list of "100 Sexiest Woman in the World".
By age 23, Forbes magazine ranked Knightley as the the second highest-paid actress in Hollywood with estimated earnings of $32 million in 2007. She was also the only non-American actress to make the list at that time (2008).

Keira Knightley's Nominations

Keira was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work The Imitation Game in 2014
Keira was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Pride & Prejudice in 2005
She was nominated for European Film Award for Best Actress for work Anna Karenina in 2013
She was nominated for European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film for work The Imitation Game in 2015

What else you don't know about Keira Knightley ?

Keira´s middle name is Christina.

What Keira Knightley has done for a first time

She did her first topless scene at age 15, in The Hole (2001), whilst the film was released in 2001 it was filmed in 2000. For legal reasons due to her age, her mother had to agree and the set was closed.
Her first name means 'dark'.
Was considered for the role of Peggy Carter in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), but Hayley Atwell was cast instead.
Her film Bend It Like Beckham (2002) became the first Western film to be screened on North Korean television in 2010 (the screening was to celebrate 10 years of diplomatic relations between North Korea and the United Kingdom).
The Jacket (2005) was the first film where she used an American accent.

Keira Knightley's quotes

(on kissing Orlando Bloom in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)) There were these teenaged girls off-cam, and they were ready to kill me because I kissed Orlando Bloom!
I feel less blonde now and, er, smarter!
There's no point having an 18th birthday in America.
I've always been a snob about qualifications.
On Bend It Like Beckham (2002): I thought there would be doubles--stunt doubles--and I would just run in for the close-ups, but unfortunately they didn't have the money for that.
(After being called the new Hayley Mills) That was cruel! Nothing against Hayley Mills, but I'm trying to be cool here. I'm trying to be edgy.
Do you know that on all the sets I've been on, nobody has ever made a pass at me?
(on shoes) I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn't matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.
(on The View (1997)) I met Barbara Walters backstage and didn't know who she was. She's an American phenomenon, I was told later. I'm just sooo English.
(at a photo shoot) I'm a hooker in these pictures, and I must be a high priced one because I'm staying at the Ritz, which is good.
I'm a tomboy beanpole? I can't use a computer, so maybe I'm a bit out of the loop. I don't know whether to be flattered or not flattered. The beanpole bit, is that good? Can you be a sexy beanpole?
Katharine Hepburn and Vivien Leigh are my heroes. Not because of their ability, but because of their perseverance.
When in doubt, faint.
I know for a fact the work is going to dry up, and people will get bored of me. That's not bitterness, just the truth.
(on her conception) I was a bet. My mum was desperate for another child, and my dad told her that the only way they could afford to have one was if she sold a play. So Mum wrote "When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout".
I don't think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don't think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I'm good, I can say I'm trying to be an actor, but I don't think I've completely made it.
Acting requires me to be very observant, which means being able to sit in cafes for hours and watch people.
I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine.
I'm a bit of a tomboy so the action stuff was fantastic.
It's also strange when people recognise you in the street and they know you but you don't know them. It's a little weird, but nothing to complain about.
[on the love scene with Clive Owen in King Arthur (2004)] It was part of the job. There's no point in being embarrassed about it, because that is the name of the game. It was just another day at the office. A very nice day at the office.
I don't think about nutrition. The very thought of a diet makes me want chips and ice cream. And I just hate going to the gym. I cannot stand it.
The fact that we haven't focused on the love triangle between Arthur, Lancelot and Guinevere was actually one of the things that made me want to do the film. It's interesting to tell it in a completely new way.
Every part I've ever got, I always thought it was completely ridiculous that I was up for it. With Pirates, I only packed for a week because I was sure that I was going to get sacked. I thought they'd made the hugest mistake.
We're all fans of cinema, you know. Forget about being an actor, I love watching films. I really do. That's what I love doing, as a hobby. I find the whole process fascinating, as do my parents, they go to the cinema a lot.
I don't do a thing to keep fit, I just cannot make myself work out. My abs are just luck - my mum has good ones so it's a family trait.
I don't like parties very much. I'm not a very sociable being.
I've always been quite tomboyish.
In L.A., I'm twice the size - height and everything else - of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
Three years after that I was diagnosed as dyslexic, and we struck a deal: I was allowed to start acting on condition that I would read constantly and get good grades at school.
I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove.
I paint and draw, but very badly.
A newspaper here voted me one of the scruffiest people in Britain. I'm quite proud of that. It's completely true.
I suppose I'm more of a tomboy than the girly-girl, which is why I can't walk on stilettos very well.
I do remember, at six, thinking I should be earning my own living. My mum says I was born 45.
The most fantastic date I've ever had was going bowling, because I don't bowl and I'm awful.
There are pressures to conform to a certain type, tall, blonde, thin, big breasts, you know - The Type.
Last year, I went to the Vanity Fair party after the Oscars and I stood in the corner and had a lot of champagne. It's very, very scary.
I'm dyslexic, and at six years old, they realized I couldn't read a word and had been fooling them. My mum said to me: "If you come to me with a book in your hand and a smile on your face every day through the summer holiday, I'll get you an agent.".
I don't court attention, which is why I've never been to nightclubs like Chinawhite.
I'm not a social person, so I really have very few friends in the business.
To be honest, I'd sooner be with my mates having a pint.
If I have a dark side, I haven't discovered it yet. How very boring of me.
Producers usually hire a stylist for me when I got to premieres because they think I'm so pathetic.
I'm incredibly self-conscious about my body.
There's no individuality on the red carpet. That's why I loved BjÃ¶rk's Oscar swan dress. I wish I had the courage.
[on Guinevere] She's very manipulative and calculating and would use whomever to get her own way, whether it was with her sexuality or by killing someone. It felt very empowering playing her!
People send over dresses for me to wear to these functions, but I often feel like a 5-year-old in my mom's clothes. So I just wear jeans and a top every single time.
Nudity frightens me, but I will do it when I think it's necessary - or when it makes me giggle.
The most exercise I do is turning on the television.
I'm naturally an extremely lazy person, so if someone did everything for me, I really think I would do nothing at all.
I don't read anything and I don't look at newspapers. It's too weird, so I'm not really aware of hype anywhere.
[on her costumes for The Duchess (2008)] I was literally sewn into these dresses. Because of that, and the hoops, I just couldn't fit into the loo at all - I just had to hang on all day.
I think it's important to make time for the people in your life who you love and who love you back.
[on her wardrobe] I go for whatever is clean.
[on being asked if she would go out with Robbie Williams] I don't know, I don't know him. He's very good looking though.
I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
I could never have an affair with any of my leading men, though. They always turn into brothers. I'm a classic turn-them-into-brothers kind of girl.
On screen these days, you rarely see a big, strong man. You see slender, androgynous-looking boys. I've worked with very few people whom I feel small against. The most manly thing ever is a guy who can cry, who's in touch with himself.
I started acting when I was 7, but I asked for an agent when I was 3. I don't remember it, but that's what everybody says. I don't think I knew what agents did, but I thought it was kind of unfair that my mom and dad had one and I didn't.
IÂm a total romantic Â I love romantic films, but I donÂt like being raped by sugar.
The thing about great fictional characters from literature is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
[on yoga classes being recommended to assist in developing her characterization of Anna Karenina] Marathon training would have been slightly more helpful.
People liked the spanking on A Dangerous Method (2011) an awful lot. In England, it was pretty much the only thing I got asked about.
There's always the moral question when you're playing real people. Is there any reason to do this, or are you simply exploiting somebody?
[on Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)] The movie itself has comic moments, but it's about the end of the world, so obviously it has an apocalyptic feel to it that's not that comic, because everybody dies.
I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema. I don't want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don't want to know that the person is an alcoholic.
Hollywood has a really long way to go. I don't think that anybody can deny that, really, and I think as much as you are getting more women playing lead roles... they're still pretty few and far between.
I like being private. I haven't asked a lot of the actresses who I really admire, "How do you do it?" because I don't want to know. Maybe I'm childish in that way; I just don't want to know about your life.
If you are on social media and if you do put anything out in the public, you are opening yourself up now to a lot of criticism and a lot of people telling you they hate you.
[on plastic surgery] I look the way I look, I am not willing to cut my face up.
My mother and I would always talk about sex. She'd come up to my room and have me roll cigarettes for her and then tell me I had to have one with her.
[on Harvey Weinstein] I absolutely knew he was a bully, and I absolutely knew he was a womaniser, but I totally thought that was consensual. But rape?

Keira Knightley's height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color

Lets describe how Keira Knightley looks. We will focus on Keira´s height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color and shoe size. She is tall as 5' 7" (170 cm). She weights 122lbs (55 kg). Body build is slim. Keira´s eyes are tinted brown - dark. Her hair is shade of brown - dark. If you are really curious, you may find interesting Keira´s shoe size is 9 (US), 41.5 (EU), 7.5 (UK), 260 (J).

Keira Knightley