About Keira Knightley:
Keira Knightley was born March 26, 1985, is an Academy Award-nominated English film actress. Knightley is best known for her roles in films such as "Bend It Like Beckham," and the "Pirates of the Caribbean " movies.
When she was just three, Knightley famously asked her parents -- Sharman Macdonald, an award-winning playwright, and Will Knightley, a theater and television actor -- for an agent. After striving at school despite her dyslexia, Knightley's parents awarded their daughter an agent when she was seven. Knightley's otherworldly beauty was no doubt a factor when she began landing roles in amateur stage productions around London
Many would agree that a movie about pirates starring Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom would be a hit no matter what actress joined them on their swashbuckling adventure. But who could argue that Keira Knightley's presence as the tough-as-nails Elizabeth Swann had nothing to do with Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl's worldwide gross of over $650,000,000. Knightley did more than hold her own opposite cinematic titan Depp and fellow rising star Bloom on her way to becoming a bona fied action star. She went on to appear in the uber-lucrative sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean : At World's End before announcing that she would not return for the planned fourth installment. We guess that after helping the franchise gross $2.79 billion worldwide, Knightley felt it was time to move on.
