Keira Christina Knightley, born in 1985, is an English film actress and model, she began her career as a child and came to international prominence in 2003 after co-starring in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. She earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Two years later she again was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Atonement. Between 2010 and 2011, she appeared in Massy Tadjedin's Last Night (in which she co-starred with Eva Mendes, Sam Worthington, and Guillaume Canet), in London Boulevard (with Colin Farrell, written and directed by William Monahan), and in David Cronenberg's historical drama A Dangerous Method, co-starring Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, and Vincent Cassel.