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Keira Knightley is prettiest 34-year-old English actress broke out and took over the mainstream media as a teen actress, but the journey wasn’t so easy as it looks like!!
She started her acting career since childhood, at the same time when she had dyslexia. Dyslexia is reading disability; kids having dyslexia even can’t read simple general knowledge quiz. But she didn’t give up and rose to super fame at teenage. She had brilliant films, such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Bend it like Beckham, and the Curse of the Black Plearn.
Keira Knightley has earned the first Oscar nomination for the best film, “Pride and prejudice. She also had a post-traumatic stress disorder just after out of the blue rise to super fame.
Keira Knightley Lifestyle
Keira Knightley was born in a South West London, Teddington, her parents Will Knightley was an English actor, and mother Sharman Macdonald was a play writer and Scottish actress. Knightley also has an older brother named Caleb.
At the age of three, she desired to be an actress, but her parent’s advice to wait until seven. She also had dyslexia disorder at the age of six.
At very little she started working as an actor in small roles; she was cast in Star Wars, Episode I at the age of six.
She got lots of appreciation because of her outstanding performances and resemblance to Natalie Portman, who appeared in Padme in prequel movies.
She was 14 years old when her movie released in 1999.
Keira Knightley had her best breakout role in Bend It like Beckham; the film was a romantic comedy released in 2002.
After, she had a role as a soccer player and started training for the three months for preparation. Because of outstanding performance, the movie earned the Golden Globe nomination.
Who can deny her fantastic acting in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie?
She worked as leading actress in the Pirates of the Caribbean and The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003. That was the time when Keira Knightley recognized as a rising superstar actress on mainstream media at the age of 17 years old.
The Pirates of the Caribbean movie was a box office smash; it earned more than $305 million in the box office.
She carried on as a leading star in Pirates of Caribbean-Dead man’s chest in 2006, Pirates of Caribbean-At world’s end in 2007. She also had a cameo in the Pirates of Caribbean-Dead men tell no tales in 2017.
Keira Knightley was also part of the famous British romantic comedy “Love Actually,” which most often plays at the Christmas season.
Every actress in her career faces some flops, so Knightley also did – she had some flops such as Domino, and King Arthur in 2004 and 2005, but soon after, she had a super hit film “Pride and Prejudice”.
Keira Knightley had two Oscar’s nominees; the first one was in 2006 for the best performance as a leading actress role in Pride and Prejudice in 2005 and best performance as a supporting actress role in The Imitation Game (2014).
She recently had the best performances at Collet in 2018.