33 interesting facts about Keira Knightley
- Keira's role as the decoy queen in Star Wars was kept a secret from the public when they were promoting the movie.
- In May 2007, Keira Knightley revealed she was hurt by allegations that her thin frame was promoting anorexia and she was considering quitting acting as a result.
- In May 2008, Keira Knightley moved to France where her actor boyfriend, Rupert Friend, lives. She revealed she was missing him and wanted to be closer to him.
- For her role in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Keira Knightley said that in order for her to appear in it, she wanted to do a sword fight scene.
- Keira does Lux haircare products in Japanese TV commercials.
- Keira Knightley received an Academy Award nomination for "Best Actress" in 2005.
- Keira Knightley dated former cast member of "Princess Of Thieves" Del Synoot. Keira also dated Irish model Jamie Dornan.
- Keira lived for a short time in a flat with some girlfriends in the Mayfair District of Central London, a very upscale area. That came to an end due to problematic structural damages found.
- Some of Keira's talents are drawing, ballet, and playing the flute and piano.
- Keira Knightley had her cleavage painted in for her role as Elizabeth Swann.
- Keira's mother is actress-turned-author Sharman Macdonald, who wrote When I Was A Girl I Used To Scream And Shout and The Winter Guest.
- Keira's childhood nickname was "Boo."
- Keira Knightley shares a birthday with poet Robert Frost, actress Amy Smart, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, and singer Diana Ross.
- Keira Knightley has dyslexia. She had to wear special glasses in adolescence to help her read.
- Keira did all of her own stunts in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. She was thrilled that she actually got to sword fight in this one. In the first one she begged for a sword fight, but they did not let her have one.
- Keira Knightley has denied that she has a problem with anorexia, although she has admitted that anorexia runs in her family as both her grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it.
- Keira Knightley collects shoes.
- Keira is friends with Sienna Miller.
- At age 20, Keira was the second youngest woman to be nominated for Best Actress in Oscar history.
- Keira Knightley was 8 years old when she first appeared on TV.
- At the Oscar Luncheon Keira Knightley revealed that Johnny Depp had been joking around with her on set about her Oscar nomination. After each take he would say to her, "Was that an Oscar-nominated take?"
- Keira Knightley was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for the movie Pride and Prejudice. She is up against Judi Dench, Reese Witherspoon, Felicity Huffman and Charlize Theron.
- Keira was nominated for a Golden Globe for portraying Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice in the best movie actress category but sadly she lost to Reese Witherspoon.
- Keira Knightley suffered from food poisoning while auditioning for the role of Jackie Price in the 2005 thriller The Jacket. The filmmakers liked her acting, as her character is meant to have a lot of issues and pain, as well as being physically sick.
- Keira Knightley did her first nude scene at the age of sixteen, in the 2001 movie The Hole.
- Keira was named the most glamorous film actress by Glamour in 2004.
- Keira's favorite UK football team is West Ham United.
- Keira confesses that she loves Prada and Jimmy Choos' shoes.
- Keira has a shoe fetish, loves Thai food, and the movie Casablanca. She also likes chocolate, especially Cadbury milk chocolate.
- Keira Knightley is 5'7".
- Keira has one brother named Caleb who was born in 1979.
- Keira is the daughter of the actor Will Knightley and playright Sharman MacDonald.
- After a new book titled Diana and the Paparazzi, was at the centre of a bidding war at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, it was revealed that Keira Knightley was the front-runner to play Diana, Princess Of Wales in the movie adaptation on the late royal's life.
