Keira Knightley
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-21 07:25:09
Keira Christina Knightley was born in the South London suburb of Richmond on March 26th 1985. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald. An older brother. Caleb was born in 1979. Brought up immersed in the acting profession from both sides - writing and performing - it is little wonder that the young Keira asked for her own agent at the age of three. She was granted one at the age of six and performed in her first TV role as Little Girl in Royal Celebration (1993) (TV) aged seven. It was discovered at an early age that Keira had severe difficulties in reading and writing. She was not officially dyslexic as she never sat the formal tests required of the British Dyslexia Association. Instead she worked incredibly hard encouraged by her family until the problem had been overcome by her early teens. Her first multi-scene performance came in A Village Affair (1994) an adaptation of the lesbian like story by Joanna Trollope. This was followed by small parts in British crime series "The account" (1984) an exiled German princess in Treasure Seekers (1996) (TV) and a much more substantial role as the young Judith Dunbar in Giles advance's adaptation of Rosamunde Pilcher's novel Coming Home (1998) (TV) alongside 'Peter O' Toole' . Penelope Keith and Joanna Lumley. The first time Keira's label was mentioned around the world was when it was revealed (in a plot move kept secret by director George Lucas) that she played Natalie Portman's decoy Padme to Portman's Amidala in feature Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). It was several years before agreement was reached over which scenes featured Keira as the promote and which Natalie! Keira had no formal training as an actress and did it out of pure enjoyment. She went to an ordinary council-run school in nearby Teddington and had no idea what she wanted to do when she left. By now she was beginning to acquire far more substantial roles and was starting to turn work down as one project and her schoolwork was enough to claim with. She reappeared on British television in 1999 as Rose Fleming in Alan Bleasdale's faithful reworking of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" (1999) (mini) and travelled to Romania to film her first title role in Disney's Princess of Thieves (2001) (TV) in which she played Robin Hood's daughter Gwyn. Keira's first serious boyfriend was her Thieves star Del Synnott and they later co-starred in Peter Hewitt' 's 'work of act involuntarily' Thunderpants (2002). Nick Hamm's.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://break-hollywood.blogspot.com/2007/12/keira-knightley.html
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