Keira Knightly Gallery

Keira Knightley, few actresses enjoy the kind of success Keira Knightley saw in 2003. A slender but lean brunette beauty, pixyish British actress Keira Knightley hitched herself to a star with memorable roles in such hits as Bend It Like Beckham (2002) and Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)

Born in Teddington, London, England, in 1985,young Knightley was enticed by the lure of cinema at an early age. Reported to have asked her parents for a manager at age of three playwright mother Sharman McDonald and actor father Will Knightley were at first reluctant to let their daughter follow them into show a business.

Taking back her own face for the television  miniseries Oliver Twist (2000) , Knightley stayed with the small screen as a Robin Hood's daughter in the 2001 adventure Princess of Thieves. Although audiences would truly begin to take note of her talent in the thriller The Hole that same year her star- making turn in the sleeper comedy drama in Bend It Like Beckham endeared  her to audiences everywhere and ultimately served as her breakthrough role.