Date of Birth- 26 March 1985, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
Birth Name- Keira Christina Knightley
Height- 5' 7" (1.70 m)
The daughter of actor Will Knightley and playwright Sharman Macdonald. After she requested an agent at the age of three, her parents allowed her to work on productions in her summer holidays. Her first role was at the age of 9, in Moira Armstrong's A Village Affair (1995) (TV). However, Knightley's first high profile role came in 1999, as Sabe, Decoy Queen to Natalie Portman's Queen Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). Since then she has completed an impressive array of films including The Hole (2001), but is probably best known for her role of tomboy footballer Jules Paxton in Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham (2002). Describing Keira Knightley as merely "beautiful" is the equivalent of brushing off Mount Everest as being just plain "tall." It would take us at least a fortnight to amass all the hottest women in the world lists that she's conquered, and only a man with Shakespeare's literary prowess could adequately describe her flawless features.