Keira Knightley Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Boyfriend & More)

Keira Knightley is an English actress who is 37 years of age as of the year 2022 and she was born in  Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK. She was born on 26th March 1985. Keira Christina Knightley is the birth name of Keira Knightley.

She acts in both independent films and big-budget blockbusters and she is mainly known for her roles in period projects/dramas and she has won and has been nominated for many awards which includes two Empire Awards and nominations for two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, one Laurence Olivier Award and three Golden Globe Awards.

Keira was also been made an OBE in the year 2018’s Birthday Honours for services to drama and charity. She has got her own agent at the early age of six and has worked in tv films and also commercials and she was in a science fiction Sabé, Padmé Amidala’s handmaiden in the world-wide recognized Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace in the year 1999. She got a major breakthrough for her as a tomboy footballer in the sports film Bend It Like Beckham in the year 2002.

Keira Knightley Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Boyfriend & More)

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Full Name Keira Christina Righton OBE
Nick Name Keira Knightley
Date of Birth March 26, 1985
Age 37 Years old as of January 2023
Birth Place Teddington, United Kingdom
Original Inhabitants Teddington, United Kingdom
Ethnicity English, Scottish and Welsh descent
Religion Christian
Nationality British
Occupations Actress
Education
  • Teddington School, London, England
  • Esher Sixth Form College, Thames Ditton, England
Net Worth $ 80 Million USD as of 2022
Marital Status Married
Debut
  • 1993 – Screen One (TV)
  • 1995 – Innocent Lies (Film)

Physical Appearance

Eye Colour Brown
Hair Colour Dark Brown
Figure 32-23-32
Height 5’7″ Feet
Weight 54 kg

Personal Life (Family, Friends, Boyfriends, Children)

Father Will Knightley
Mother Sharman Macdonald
Sibling Caleb Knightley
Boyfriend James Righton (married in 2013)

Early life, Family and Relationship

Keira Christina Knightley is the birth name of Keira Knightley and her parents are stage actors Will Knightley and Sharman Macdonald. She was named after  Kira Ivanova to whom her father was a great admirer though she got the name Keira as her mother misspelt her name on the birth certificate and yes she is Keira.

Keira’s father is an English man while her mother is of Scottish and Welsh descent. She has an older brother Caleb and her mother was a playwright after her acting career was coming to an end at a point in time.

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Keira Knightley Success and career

Keira Knightley made her first on-screen appearance in the year 1993 in the Screen One television episode named Royal Celebration and she has acted in the romantic drama A Village Affair in the year of 1995 in which she had a role of a young girl whose mother is involved in an extramarital affair and her name in it was  Natasha Jordan. Kiera is also well-known for her part in the Pirates of the Caribbean series in which she got very much world-wide recognised and she always makes her way mostly while acting and established herself in the H-Town with her own spot.

Keira Knightley Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Boyfriend & More)

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