Keira Knightley was born on March 26, 1985 in Teddington, Middlesex, England.

The daughter of actor Will Knightley and Keira Knightley's mother is playwright Sharman Macdonald.

Age of six Keira Knightley performed in her first TV role as Little Girl in ROYAL CELEBRATION in 1993 a made for TV movie.

When auditioning for the role of Jackie Price in THE JACKET, Keira Knightley had suffered food poisoning a few days earlier. She still went to the audition the film makers liked her "acting" for the scene, as Jackie Price was to be a woman with many issues of loss and pain as well as being physically sick in general.

At the age of 9 Keira Knightley was in Moira Armstrong's A VILLAGE AFFAIR in 1994.

Playing Sabe was Keira Knightley first high profile role in 1999, as the Decoy Queen to Natalie Portman's Queen Amidala in STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE.

Probably Keira is best known role as the tomboy footballer Jules Paxton in Gurinder Chadha's BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM in 2002.

In 2000 Keira Knightley shot her first nude scene for the Nick Hamm's dark thriller THE HOLE at the time of the shooting Keira was only 15. The film was not released until she was 16 years old in 2001.

To film her first title role, Keira Knightley travelled to Romania for Disney's PRINCESS OF THIEVES (2001 - TV).