Keira Knightley

She was raised in London to actor 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 starred as Sabe in a minor character in Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1998). Her breakthrough came in 2002's sports movie Bend It Like Beckham, in which she portrayed an adolescent football player. In 2003, Elizabeth Swann, a Swashbuckler from the fantasy series Pirates of the Caribbean became incredibly famous. Knightley was labeled a promising teenage star after appearing as a character in Love Actually (2003). In her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the period romance Pride & Prejudice (2005), Knightley was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The actress appeared in a myriad of period dramas with her character playing a complicated love attraction 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 and acted as an ambitious musician in Begin Again (2013) and an physician on Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). Knightley was back in historical movies in The Imitation Game in 2014 when she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress. In 2018, Knightley played the writer Colette.