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Keira Knightley, 21, is taking English tabloid the Daily Mail to court, The Online Press Gazette reports. The Pirates of the Caribbean star claims the newspaper indicated that she tried to mislead the public about whether she had an eating disorder.
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Keira Knightley’s romantic epic Atonement is leading the way at the Evening Standard British Film Awards with seven nominations. Knightley goes up against her co-star Romola Garai for the Best Actress award, while James MCAvoy - who plays her love interest - is nominated in the Best Actor category. Atonement is shortlisted for Best Film as well as Best Screenplay for writer Christopher Hampton. The 2007 picture ... has nods in the Technical Achievement category for costume design. Joining Knightley in the Best Actress category is Helena Bonham Carter, who is nominated for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and for her role in Conversations With Other Women; Julie Christie, in Away From Her; Samantha Morton, in Control; and Tilda Swinton, in Michael Clayton. Read the rest of this entry »
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Keira Knightley has really had an impressive career for someone who is so young. That is really the most striking thing about her. She's just turned twenty and has the demeanor of someone still flush with youth. She's had a pretty busy year and continues full steam ahead. She's currently shooting the sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean.
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From All Movie Guide: Pixie-ish British actress Keira Knightley went from a relative unknown to a blockbuster leading lady after 2002's sleeper soccer flick Bend It Like Beckham caught on with an international audience. Born in Teddington, London, England, in 1985, young Knightley was enticed by the lure of cinema at an early age. Playwright mother Sharman McDonald and actor father Will Knightley were at first reluctant to let their daughter follow them into show business. Although they would accommodate her wish three years later, their strict demand that their daughter study through school holidays and only take jobs that didn't interfere with her education ensured that Keira would keep her priorities straight.
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Keira Knightley took the #10 spot on Forbes magazine Top 20 under 25. She mostly got this for her $5 million dollar paycheck for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. She ... got it because she sued a magazine called the Daily Mall in a libel suit when it insinuated she was anorexic. She won $6,000 in the suit, which is hardly anything for her, but it is the way she got it, not how much it was that matters in this case. There are a couple of actors and a bunch of sports stars ahead of her in this list including Maria Sharapova, Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame and the Olsen twins which continue to amaze people. Since it’s a smaller list, I’ll mention that the other 2 Harry Potter stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint also make the list.
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Growing up in an entertainment family, Keira Knightley became involved in show biz at an early age. First asking for an agent when she was only a little girl, Keira eventually got her own manager by age six. By the time she was ten, Knightley had made her professional acting debut as Little Girl in the European television film Royal Celebration (1993). She received her first big screen role as Natasha Jordan in Moira Armstong's A Village Affair (1994), played Young Celia in Innocent Lies (1995), was cast as an expelled German Princess in Treasure Seekers (1996,TV) and moved on to more important role Young Judith, opposite Penelope Keith, Peter O' Toole and Joanna Lumley, in Giles Foster's adaptation of Rosamunde Pilcher's novel Coming Home (1998,TV).
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