| She's the daughter of famed actor Will Knightley and actress-turned-author Sharman MacDonald. She was born on March 22, 1985 in Teddington, England. By the age of three, she asked her parents for an agent. But her parents wanted her to concentrate on her studies, since she was dislexic.
She followed in her parents’ footsteps quite early, staring at the age of 11 in A Village Affair (1994). She then appeared in her first Hollywood blockbuster, playing Padmé's double Sabé, in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
She the stared in the TV movie, The Princess of Thieves (2001), Keira played the title role of Robin Hood’s daughter Gwyn. Despite her lack of soccer experience, she was chosen for a lead role in the Bend It Like Beckham (2002), a movie based on soccer phenom, David Beckham. Along with Parminder Nagra, who played the lead role in the film, Keira trained full time with a coach for three months in order to successfully play a soccer-obsessed teenager. They learned to play soccer and repeated the moves over and over, even practising them at home each night. At one point, when Keira sustained a concussion, the director suggested that they use doubles, but the girls refused, saying they wanted to do the soccer action themselves.
Bend it Like Beckham was number one in Britain and stayed there for several weeks, it was clear that the film was a massive sucess. It was then shown in Europe, Australia, India and eventually in the United States it became a super hit! Soon after, Keira landed a lead role in the Hollywood blockbuster as Elizabeth Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) acting alongside Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom . She then stared as Guienevere in the Disney update of King Arthur. POTC went on to conquer the box office by landing at #1, beating out the Arnold Schwartznegger movie Terminator 3 and Reece Witherspoon in Legally Blonde 2.
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