All All. Sign In. The most beautiful actresses. See the list of the most beautiful actresses. List activity. Keira Knightley. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald.
An older brother, Caleb Knightley , was born in Her father is English, while her Scottish-born mother is of Scottish and Welsh origin. 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. It was several years before agreement was reached over which scenes featured Keira as the queen and which featured Natalie! Keira had no formal training as an actress and did it out of pure enjoyment. She went to an ordinary council-run school in nearby Teddington and had no idea what she wanted to do when she left. By now, she was beginning to receive far more substantial roles and was starting to turn work down as one project and her schoolwork was enough to contend with.
Keira's first serious boyfriend was her Princess of Thieves co-star Del Synnott , and they later co-starred in Peter Hewitt 's 'work of fart' Thunderpants Nick Hamm 's dark thriller The Hole kept her busy during , and featured her first nude scene 15 at the time, the film was not released until she was 16 years old.
