celebrity profile
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
She has been represented by a professional agent since the age of six, she apparently asked her parents for an “agent” at the age of three. Another example of starting early if you want to reach the top of your profession! Her mother Sharman was a writer and her father Will an actor. She has won numerous accolades such as the Empire Hero Award and Hollywood Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in The Imitation Game and been nominated for many more. She is also the celebrity face for Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle perfume, tearing through the streets of Paris on a Ducati Supersport 750 in a fitted biker outfit.
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Keira married James Righton, a musician in the Klaxons, in the South of France in 2013 and they have a lovely daughter named Edie born in 2015. She is well known for her role as the face of Amnesty International, working with Richard Curtis on behalf of Comic Relief in Africa and has spoken out for women’s rights and against domestic abuse. In 2016 she featured in a video with Cate Blanchett, Peter Capaldi, Juliet Stevenson and other famous faces to highlight the global refuge crisis for the United Nations.
Of particular note is her support of women from all walks of life and feminism worldwide, specially at a time when popular politics and misogyny are on the rise. She famously posed topless for Interview Magazine but insisted that it was not photoshopped so it portrayed a realistic view of womanhood. In 2016 she signed a letter imploring Britain to remain in the EU, along with John Le Carré, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bill Nighy, Jude Law, Paloma Faith, Danny Boyle and many others. She is also admired for keeping her spending allowance to a minimum, around £30,000 per year (minimal considering she is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood), so that
eira Knightley is perhaps best known for her role as Elizabeth Swann in Pirates of The Caribbean, but who remembers that she became famous in the Brit flick “Bend It Like Beckham”? She is now one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood with a varied range of roles, from rough and tumble action hero in Domino to maths genius in The Imitation Game, an English rose in Pride and Prejudice to girl next door in Love Actually.
in Hollywood), so that she enjoys a normal life unaffected by Hollywood glitz and conspicuous spending.
At only 32 years old Keira has enjoyed a career many older film stars would envy, though she is also interested in pursuing more roles on the stage. She recently made her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin for the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York and was widely praised for her role as Jennifer in The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre London five years ago. She has frequently stated that she yearns for more complex characters to play and is outspoken about the lack of great female parts in Hollywood movies that cater to a mostly teen, male audience mentality, where producers think the box office takings depend.
Keira: “Female stories and female voices are very often missed out on…but they’re very difficult to find …It’s got to come from female writers, from female producers, from female directors”
She is often shy and self deprecating in interviews and confesses to not being very good at parties, preferring to chat personally with someone rather than working the room, normally a Hollywood prerequisite for success. It’s perhaps this same sensitivity that makes her so popular, matching such a pretty face with depth and an empathic sense of humour. A combination that makes her wildly popular with both men and women worldwide and infers that perhaps her best work is yet to come.
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