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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 (1995), an adaptation of the lesbian love story by Joanna Trollope. This was followed by small parts in the British crime series The Bill (1984), an exiled German princess in The Treasure Seekers (1996) and a much more substantial role as the young "Judith Dunbar" in Giles Foster's adaptation of Rosamunde Pilcher's novel Coming Home (1998), alongside Peter O'Toole, Penelope Keith and Joanna Lumley. The first time Keira's name was mentioned around the world was when it was revealed (in a plot twist kept secret by director George Lucas) that she played Natalie Portman's decoy "Padme" to Portman's "Amidala" in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). It was several years before agreement was reached over which scenes featured Keira as the queen and which featured Natalie! a b "The Aftermath (2019)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. 15 March 2019. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019 . Retrieved 16 March 2019. Leaving your beauty routine out in the cold? Three beauty experts on the skin, hair and nail tips they're giving their celebrity clients this winter Keira Christina Knightley was born on 26 March 1985 in the London suburb of Teddington, to stage actors Will Knightley and Sharman Macdonald. [3] She was meant to be named "Kiera", the anglicised form of "Kira", after the Soviet figure skater Kira Ivanova, whom her father admired; however, Macdonald misspelt the name when she registered her daughter's birth certificate, writing the e before the i. [4] Her father is English and her mother is of Scottish and Welsh descent. [5] Knightley has an older brother, Caleb. [6] Macdonald worked as a playwright after her acting career came to an end. Knightley's parents encountered substantial financial difficulties following the birth of her brother; [7] her father, a "middling" actor, agreed to a second child only if her mother sold a script first. However, her parents' varying degrees of success did not deter Knightley's curiosity about the profession. [8] Macdonald introduced her own children to theatre and ballet very early. [9] This inspired Knightley's interest in acting. [10] Tommy Fury's face is playfully squeezed by a female reveller as he parties with Chris Brown - after fiancée Molly-Mae Hague is seen without her ring

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Olivia Culpo models a long white dress as she heads to bridal shops in Beverly Hills before her wedding to NFL star Christian McCaffrey Knightley has been described as "famously open with media", [169] though she has asserted the contrary. [170] During the 2000s, Knightley faced an "extraordinary amount of vitriol" from the press. [16] The Guardian wrote that "if she is not too pretty to be worthy of her success, she is too posh, too thin. If there is a more valid reason why [...] they often struggle to articulate it." [16] Despite multiple successful films and award nominations, the criticism affected her, and Knightley felt that she "didn't know [her] trade." [171] Media scrutiny decreased as her career progressed, and she spaces out her public appearances to maintain attention on her films. [124] Beginning in the 2010s, Knightley regained confidence in her abilities, and by the release of Colette (2018), she felt she had learnt her craft and mentally occupied a "good place where I feel pretty confident about what I can do". [171] In May 2016, Knightley signed a letter imploring Britain to vote "remain" in the UK EU referendum. The letter was also signed by John le Carré, Benedict Cumberbatch and Danny Boyle among others. [197] Later, she appeared in a video aimed at encouraging younger people to vote in the referendum. [198] On 12 September 2016, Knightley, along with Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Peter Capaldi, Douglas Booth, Neil Gaiman, Jesse Eisenberg, Juliet Stevenson, Kit Harington and Stanley Tucci, appeared in a video from the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR to help raise awareness of the global refugee crisis. The video, titled "What They Took With Them", has the actors reading a poem, written by Jenifer Toksvig and inspired by primary accounts of refugees, and is part of UNHCR's #WithRefugees campaign, of which also includes a petition to governments to expand asylum to provide further shelter, integrating job opportunities, and education. [199] In September 2016, Knightley co-hosted A Night to Remember, part of the Green Carpet Challenge, a charity event highlighting sustainability within the fashion industry. [200] Tiffany Haddish vows to 'get help' and 'learn balance and boundaries' after second DUI arrest in under two years Prince William 'has only read passages of Spare', but rejected two attempts by Harry to set up a meeting via a mutual friend after publication

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