List of Keira Knightley performances

Keira Knightley is a British actress who began her career by appearing in commercials and television films, including The Treasure Seekers (1996), Coming Home (1998), and Oliver Twist (1999)^[1] before making her major motion picture debut in the space-opera epic Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) as Padmé Amidala's handmaiden.^[2] She portrayed the daughter of Robin Hood in the romantic adventure film Princess of Thieves (2001), her first starring role, and earned her breakthrough by playing a teen tomboy footballer in sports comedy Bend It Like Beckham (2002).^[1][3] A year later, Knightley rose to global stardom after appearing as Elizabeth Swann in the fantasy swashbuckler film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, co-starring Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, for which she received two Saturn Award nominations, one for Best Supporting Actress.^[4][5]

Keira Knightley at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival

She then appeared in the Richard Curtis-directed Christmas romance Love Actually (2003) as a woman whose fiancée's best man is secretly in love with her.^[6] Knightley portrayed the daughter of an alcoholic in psychological thriller The Jacket (2005).^[7] She starred as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright's romantic drama Pride & Prejudice (2005), for which Knightley received her first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination, becoming the third-youngest Best Actress nominee.^[8][9][10] The film clinched her long association with period dramas.^[11][12] She reprised her role as Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007); the former is her highest-grossing release.^[13] Knightley subsequently appeared in two wartime dramas; as a complex love interest in Wright's Atonement (2007), which earned her an Empire Award for Best Actress^[14][15][16] and a jazz singer in the biopic The Edge of Love (2008).^[17] She starred as eighteenth-century tastemaker Georgiana Cavendish in the drama The Duchess (2008), for which she received positive reviews.^[18]

She made her theatre debut as a shallow, amorous film star in The Misanthrope, which earned Knightley her a nomination for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play.^[19] Also on West End, she then portrayed a schoolteacher accused of lesbianism in The Children's Hour.^[20] She reunited with Wright for the third time with historical romance Anna Karenina (2012), playing the titular aristocratic socialite to critical acclaim.^[21] Knightley expanded into contemporary roles with musical drama Begin Again (2014), starring as an aspiring songwriter, and action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) as a medical student. Her role as an overeducated underachiever in the rom-com Laggies (2014) was followed by a return to historical parts as cryptanalyst Joan Clarke in the drama The Imitation Game (2014), which garnered Knightley an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.^[22] The following year, she made her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin playing a psychotic and repressed wife.^[23] Knightley appeared as the eponymous belle époque writer in biographical film Colette (2018) to positive reception.^[24][25] In wartime drama The Aftermath (2019), Knightley portrayed a cold, complex army wife.^[26] She starred in succeeding political dramas as whistleblower Katharine Gun in Official Secrets (2019) and feminist Sally Alexander in Misbehaviour (2020).^[27][28]

Film

List of film credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1995	Innocent Lies	Young Celia
1999	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	Sabé	Credit misspelled as "Kiera" Knightley	^[29]
2001	Deflation	Jogger	Short film
	The Hole	Frankie Smith
2002	Thunderpants	Music School Student	Uncredited
	Pure	Louise
	Bend It Like Beckham	Jules Paxton
	New Year's Eve	Leah	Short film
	The Seasons Alter	Helena
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Elizabeth Swann
	Love Actually	Juliet
	Gaijin	Kate	Short film; voice role
2004	King Arthur	Guinevere
2005	The Jacket	Jackie Price
	Pride & Prejudice	Elizabeth Bennet
	Domino	Domino Harvey
2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Elizabeth Swann
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
	Atonement	Cecilia Tallis
	Silk	Hélène Joncour
2008	The Edge of Love	Vera Phillips
	The Duchess	Georgiana Cavendish
2009	The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers	The Fairy	Short film
2010	Never Let Me Go	Ruth C
	Maze	Constance	Video installation
	Last Night	Joanna Reed
	Steve	Woman	Short film
	London Boulevard	Charlotte
2011	A Dangerous Method	Sabina Spielrein
2012	Seeking a Friend for the End of the World	Penelope Lockhart
	Anna Karenina	Anna Arkadyevna Karenina
2013	Once Upon a Time	Gabrielle Chanel	Short film
	Begin Again	Gretta James
2014	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit	Cathy Muller
	Laggies	Megan Burch
	The Imitation Game	Joan Clarke
2015	Everest	Jan Hall
2016	Collateral Beauty	Amy / "Love"
2017	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Elizabeth Swann-Turner	Cameo	^[30]
2018	Colette	Gabrielle Colette		^[31]
	The Nutcracker and the Four Realms	Sugar Plum Fairy		^[32]
2019	Official Secrets	Katharine Gun		^[33]
	Berlin, I Love You	Jane	Segment: "Under Your Feet"	^[34]
	The Aftermath	Rachael Morgan		^[35]
	Greed	Herself	Cameo	^[36]
2020	Misbehaviour	Sally Alexander		^[37]
2021	Charlotte	Charlotte Salomon	Voice role	^[38]
	Silent Night	Nell		^[39]
2023	Boston Strangler	Loretta McLaughlin		^[40]

Television

Key

†	Denotes series that have not yet been released

List of television credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1993	Screen One	Little Girl	Episode: "Royal Celebration"
1995	A Village Affair	Natasha Jordan	Television film
	The Bill	Sheena Rose	Episode: "Swan Song"
1996	The Treasure Seekers	The Princess	Television film
1998	Coming Home	Young Judith Dunbar
1999	Oliver Twist	Rose Fleming	Miniseries
2001	Princess of Thieves	Gwyn	Television film
2002	Doctor Zhivago	Lara Antipova	Miniseries
2007	Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind	Em	Television short film; voice role
2011	Neverland	Tinker Bell	Miniseries; voice role	^[41]
2017	Red Nose Day Actually	Juliet	Television short film	^[42]
TBA	Black Doves †	Helen	Netflix thriller series	^[43]

Theatre

List of stage credits

Year	Production	Role	Playwright	Theatre	Ref.
1999	After Juliet	Rosaline	Sharman Macdonald	Heatham House Youth Centre Twickenham, England	^[44]^[45]
2009–2010	The Misanthrope	Jennifer (Célimène)	Molière	Comedy Theatre London, England	^[46]
2011	The Children's Hour	Karen Wright	Lillian Hellman	Comedy Theatre London, England	^[47]
2015	Thérèse Raquin	Thérèse Raquin	Helen Edmundson	Roundabout Theatre Company New York City, NY, U.S.	^[48]^[49]

Video games

List of video game credits

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes	Ref.
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean	Narrator

Music videos

List of music video credits

Year	Title	Artist(s)	Role	Director(s)
2017	"Let Her Love In"	Shock Machine (James Righton)	The Girl with the Pink Dress	James Righton

Radio

List of radio credits

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
1999	Villette	Polly

Discography

Guest appearances

List of musical guest appearances

Year	Album	Track(s)
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	"Hoist the Colours"
2008	The Edge of Love	"Overture / Blue Tahitian Moon" (featuring Angelo Badalamenti)
		"After the Bombing / Hang Out the Stars in Indiana" (featuring Angelo Badalamenti)
		"Drifting and Dreaming" (featuring Angelo Badalamenti)
		"Maybe It's Because I Love You Too Much" (featuring Angelo Badalamenti)
2014	Begin Again	"Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home"
		"Lost Stars"
		"Like a Fool"
		"Coming Up Roses"
		"A Step You Can't Take Back"
		"Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home (Roof Top Mix)" (featuring Hailee Steinfeld)

See also

• List of British actors
• List of British Academy Award nominees and winners
• List of actors with Academy Award nominations
• List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories
• List of awards and nominations received by Keira Knightley

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