She was born Kiera Knightley on the 22nd of March, 1985, in Teddington, south-west London. Her name would become Keira as her Hollywood career took off,

As the child had recently been diagnosed as dyslexic, and Keira had been ridiculed by her schoolmates for her supposed stupidity. In fact, her dyslexia meant she couldn't read words and wrote numbers backwards. It got so bad that she'd get hold of book-tapes and memorise them so that no one would recognise her failings.

Keira Knightley's mom is a screenwriter and her dad's an actor, so Keira caught the acting bug early.

Angelina Jolie growed up in Los Angeles. As she was 14 years old and her parents divided she traveled with her mother to NewYork, London and Paris. Her career aspiration was in this time mortician but since she was 14 years it seems somebody saw her impressive beauty and her extravagance and she begun to model. Since this time she was very dedicated in theater and took part in some videoclips of Rolling Stones

While still at Teddington School, Knightley received a most extraordinary offer - to play a handmaiden of Natalie Portman's Queen Amidala in the forthcoming The Phantom Menace, part one of the Star Wars saga. (when George Lucas, saw Keira Knightley he thought he was seeing double. She looks so much like Natalie Portman that he thought they must have been separated at birth).

Lately Keira Knightley played Elizabeth Swann in the Hollywood blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean.