Keira Knightley is a well-know actress and we are waiting to see her in the new movie The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.
The actress has a big career in Hollywood and she is considered to be an A-list actress.
These are some facts you should know about her!
- She was born on the 26th of March 1985.
- She was born in Teddington, Greater London.
- She grew in an artistic family because her parents were theatre actors .
- Her mother is of Scottish and Welsh descent, while her father is English.
- She was meant to be named “Kiera”, the Anglicized form of “Kira”, a name influenced by the Russian ice skater, Kira Ivanova, whom her father admired. However, Macdonald misspelled the name when she went to register her daughter, writing the “e” before the “i”.
- She has an elder brother called Caleb.
- At the age of six, she was diagnosed with dyslexia but by the time she was eleven, with her parents’ support she was able to get over it.
- As a child she started taking a number of small parts in TV dramas .
- She focused on art, history, and English literature while studying at the Esher College, but left after a year to pursue a full-time acting career.
- Her first major role, was the 2001 Walt Disney Productions feature film Princess of Thieves, and she played the daughter of Robin Hood. To prepare for the film, she trained for several weeks in archery, fencing and horse riding.
- In 2007, Knightley sued the Daily Mail for publishing an article about whether she has anorexia or other eating disorder.
- She married James Righton, of Klaxons on 4 May 2013, in Mazan, Vaucluse.
- Together they have a daughter .
- She had a mental breakdown at 22 and was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder as she struggled to adjust to her sudden rise to fame, as she said!
- She posed topless for the September 2014 issue of Interview, on the condition that she not be photoshopped, to draw attention to how “women’s bodies are a battleground, and photography is partly to blame”.
