 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#1 | |||
|
Fan Forum Hero
 
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 71,321
|
Keira Knightley #34: Because her performance in 'Anna Karenina' is spectacular!
 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, 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, an adaptation of the lesbian love story by Joanna Trollope. This was followed by small parts in British crime series The Bill, an exiled German princess in Treasure Seekers and a much more substantial role as the young Judith Dunbar in Giles Foster's adaptation of Rosamunde Pilcher's novel Coming Home, alongside 'Peter O' Toole' , Penelope Keith and Joanna Lumley. The first time Keira's name was mentioned around the world was when it was revealed (in a plot twist kept secret by director George Lucas) that she played Natalie Portman's decoy Padme to Portman's Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. It was several years before agreement was reached over which scenes featured Keira as the queen and which Natalie!   It was a chance encounter with producer Andy Harries at the London premiere of Bridget Jones's Diary which forced Keira to leave her studies and pursue acting full-time. The meeting lead to an audition for the role of Larisa Feodorovna Guishar - the classic heroine of Boris Pasternak' 's novel Doctor Zhivago, played famously in the David Lean movie by Julie Christie. This was to be a big-budget TV movie with a screenplay written by Andrew Davies. Keira won the part and the mini-series was filmed throughout the Spring of 2002 in Slovakia, co-starring Sam Neill and Hans Matheson as Yuri Zhivago. Keira rounded off 2002 with a few scenes in the first movie to be directed by Blackadder and Vicar of Dibley writer Richard Curtis. Called Love Actually, Keira was to play Juliet, a newlywed whose husband's Best Man is secretly besotted with her.   2005 started with the premiere of The Jacket at the Sundance Film Festival, with the US premiere in LA on February 28th. Much of the year was then spent in the CAribbean filming both sequels to Pirates Of The Caribbean. Keira's first major presenting role came in a late-night bed-in comedy clip show for Comic Relief with presenter Johnny Vaughan. In late July, promotions started for the September release of Pride & Prejudice, with British fans annoyed to learn that the US verion would end with a post-marriage kiss, but the European version would not. Nevertheless, when the movie opened in September on both sides of the Atlantic, Keira received her greatest praise thus far in her career, amid much talk of awards. It spent three weeks at No.1 in the UK box office. Domino opened well in October, overshadowed by the death of Domino Harvey earlier in the year. Keira received Variety's Personality Of The Year Award in November, topped the following month by her first Golden Globe nomination, for Pride & Prejudice. KeiraWeb.com exclusively announced that Keira would play Helene Joncour in an adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novella Silk. Pride & Prejudice garnered six BAFTA nominations for Pride & Prejudice in 2006, but not Best Actress for Keira, a fact which paled soon after by the announcement she had received her first Academy Award nomination, the third youngest Best Actress Oscar hopeful. A controversial nude Vanity Fair cover of Keira and Scarlett Johanssen kept the press busy up till the Oscars, with Reese Witherspoon taking home the gold man in the Best Actress category, although Keira's Vera Wang dress got more media attention. Keira spent early summer in Europe filming Silk opposite Michael Pitt, and the rest of the summer in the UK filming Atonement, in which she plays Cecilia Tallis, and promoting the new Pirates movie (her Ellen Degeneres interview becomes one of the year's Top 10 'viral downloads'). Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest breaks many box office records when it opens worldwide in July, becoming the third biggest movie ever by early September.   Into 2008 and Keira finally gets noticed by BAFTA, with a Best Actress nomination, although the Academy overlook her this time. She also gets a nom by the British Film Awards, Satellites, IFTAs, London Critics and Empire Awards. Atonement dominates many of the cast, crew and cosmetic categories at award announcements around the world. The film goes on to win the Best British Film BAFTA, while Keira wins Best Actress at the Elle Style Awards and Empires. The Edge Of Love opens well in June, bolstered by the rarity of two major female British leads.  Full Keira Biography "I know for a fact the work is going to dry up, and people will get bored of me. That's not bitterness, just the truth." "In this business, fame lasts for a second. You can be blown up and be blown down. People keep losing interest in faces because new ones come along every single second. I'm one at the moment. Tomorrow I won't be. That's cool. I'm not saying that when it does end, I'll be like, 'Yay! It's ending.' But I'll move on and do something else because that's what has to be done. It's about survival. If you're sad about it, then you're in the wrong job." "Nudity frightens me, but I will do it when I think it's necessary - or when it makes me giggle."  "I don't read any magazines or newspapers any more, because I find it really scary and I get really scared when I'm followed by photographers. I have, on many occasions, broken down in tears because I find it terrifying. I dropped out of school when I was 16 so there's nothing else that I can do." "I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine." "I don't think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don't think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I'm good, I can say I'm trying to be an actor, but I don't think I've completely made it."  Keira Sites KeiraKnightley.com Keira Forever Keira Knightley Wavefront Keira Knightley.org Walking in Daydreams KEIRA LJ COMMUNITIES _____keiraholics keira daily keira_icons keira knightley fans keira zone KEIRA FANATICS 01. Switch 02. LaraCroft01 03. BehrlyHuman 04. LiL_Starzz 05. WinterPolaris 06. reza 07. *Sarahrooie* 08. D's Girl 09. Tari Isilra 10. JavaJunkie01 11. ~*~Hopeless Romantic~*~ 12. ~Clumsy_Lover~ 13. youdodoodletoo 14. ~*Jade*~ 15. ~AIR~ 16. Floegirl 17. amore85 18. ?? 19. truelovepj 20. zales00 21. MARIAROCKS000 22. Josh'sTexasGal 23. cablenathan 24. In Fair Verona 25. RoswellQueen 26. Ice Queen follower 27. Luthien Ancalimë 28. Tery 29. *GiRl WiTh No NaMe* 30. Mynois16 31. Kat B 32. Orli'sALF 33. WBgal126 34. + - ReD - + 35. abby-anne 36. ashleyboreanaz 37. *Rach* 38. Colin James 39. AfterDark 40. supergirlhero 41. _Annie_ 42. BreathofJasmine 43. ComeAwayWithMe 44. ~OneTreeHill~ 45. Angela12 46. *CinCin* 47. randomalien13 48. Niffler 49. -Louise- 50. **ellie** 51. JessicaMcCartney 52. PiCkLeS4dAwSoN 53. hege_k_t 54. Moonlight~Pixie 55. MartyRoryFan 56. ladyle 57. -Abigail- 58. sweet_lynn 59. DreamWalker 60. Butterflygirl 61. paigepp-charmed 62. addicted2theOC 63. Love_Shane_West 64. Honey-Girl 65. xburningbrightx 66. MarstersAngel 67. Anique 68. Silver`eYe 69. Cela 70. Pottyaboutharry 71. DeadMenTales 72. bbcountry 73. M.I.S.S.Y 74. electricpeppers 75. sherylle 76. Ryan-Marissa<3 77. HarryPotterHermioneFan 78. mhjl_10 79. earthling 80. LPisKiller90 81. Jsebold87 82. Kenjigirl 83. Sark and Draco Lover 84. diavoletta89 85. liltashaq 86. ashleyt 87. DiagonalZipper 88. cannonfloat 89. Insanitic 90. *Lucy_In_The_Sky* 91. R2Roswell 92. StubbornWhite 93. Only Hope 94. mariem201 95. SergeantPepper 96. PirateWizard 97. CaughtInTheMoment 98. Brittmyster 99. crunchydictator 100. Ghost.Of.You 101. - Tina - 102. meatwood 103. andiemurphy 104. rtms 105. KK-cooer 106. is_love 107. Amy Lee__ 108. xXxCaycexXx 109. krizzteh 110. simplyinfatuated 111. milleca 112. Nymph Marty 113. Ruby_Slippers 114. Nadja_S 115. xslayagex 116. misst89 117. Leneoth 118. Tru Davies 119. Ms_Melika 120. Amy_UK 121. cinnamoncookie 122. michelle ling 123. How-very-girl629 124. How Cute Is She 125. sepideh_T 126. freak_girl91 127. Ninja Elizabeth 128. luiza 129. xiggy89x 130. sweetdaisy 131. alexis bledel the best 132. BrighterSuNShine 133. *Fatima* 134. tsforever 135. Hotson 136. evielost 137. FrenchGirl90210 138. Hugo 139. AshleyInWonderland 140. taleasoldastime 141. F3v3r 142. Endlessly 143. XXXEmmaXXX 144. BeautifulN 145. dream once more 146. effie 147. Arawen 148. lisztomania 149. baelfire24 Past Thread Titles ~Keira Knightley #7 - She defies the Boundaries of Elegance. ~Keira Knightley #8 - "I'm the Kick-Ass Guinevere! I'm a Warrior Smurf!" ~Keira Knightley #9: You're every man's fantasy(and woman too)! ~Keira Knightley # 10: "Beauty without Grace is the Fish Without Bait" (R.W. Emerson) ~Keira Knightley #11 - Because she's an Academy Award Nominee for Best Actress! ~Keira Knightley #12- Because she gets to kiss sexy pirates! ~Keira Knightley #13- Because she's an ass-kicking, Guiness-drinking woman! ~Keira Knightley #14- Oscar Nominee & She's Got Style! ~Keira Knightley #15- Because she's taken us through time ~Keira Knightley #16- Because we don't need Atonement for being her fans ~Keira Knightley #17- Because she's got the body of a babe and the mouth of a sailor! ~Keira Knightley #18- Oscar nod or not, she gets our vote! ~Keira Knightley #19 - Because She Has Us On "The Edge of Love"! ~Keira Knightley #20- Make way, the Duchess is here! ~Keira Knightley #21 - We'd Go "At World's End" and Beyond for Her! ~Keira Knightley #22- Because she was a ballsy school girl! ~Keira Knightley #23- She's been a Swann and is now a Duchess! ~Keira Knightley #24- Who else would be lucky enough to kiss Orlando Bloom, Johnny Depp & Jack Davenport? ~Keira Knightley #25- The most fearless actress in Hollywood! Except for cows! ~Keira Knightley #26- Because Keira makes a good bunny! ~Keira Knightley #27 - We Can't Wait to Take a Walk on "London Boulevard" with Her! ~Keira Knightley #28- From CoCo to Jackie... She's not done yet! ~Keira Knightley #29 - "Keira’s just an old soul." ~ Eva Mendes. ~Keira Knightley #32 - b/c she' 'incredibly privileged' to be able to pick and choose when she works Credits: Bio: Taken from Keiraweb.com Art by: ChrisM. Last edited by your creation; 01-30-2013 at 06:32 AM |
|||
|
|
#5 | |||
|
Supreme Fan
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 9,956
|
Tftnt love title. Can't wait to see the movie!!
__________________
"And the oscar goes to...
...Leonardo DiCaprio" Zayn Malik is my son. ~Zohra~ icon : Cereal Killer |
|||
|
|
|
#6 | |||
|
Dedicated Fan
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 734
|
this is cute too
 but one just has to wonder...? What are they doing with four pillows and four life preservers? James, Keira, Will, Shar...? __________________
Are you talking about my teeth playing?
|
|||
|
|
|
#10 | |||
|
Dedicated Fan
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 734
|
 of the pics in that series... they just look so uncomfortable and awkward as they carry all those pillows and life preservers through town__________________
Are you talking about my teeth playing?
|
|||
|
|
  |
| Bookmarks |
| Tags |
| keira knightley |
|
|
