Knightley was born in Teddington, London, England, the daughter of Sharman MacDonald, an award-winning playwright, and Will Knightley, a theatre and television actor. Her father is English and her Scottish mother is of half Welsh ancestry. Knightley lived in Richmond, attending Stanley Junior School, Teddington School and Esher College.

Keira Christina Knightley ( /?k??r. Two years later she again was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Atonement. Her father is English and her Scottish mother is of half Welsh ancestry. She has an elder brother, Caleb. Knightley lived in Richmond, attending Stanley Junior School, Teddington School and Esher College. She was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of six, but nevertheless was successful in school and was thus permitted to acquire a talent agent and pursue an acting career. She later starred in 1995′s Innocent Lies and 1998′s Coming Home.

A Dangerous Method: Freud Helps Keira Knightley With Her Spanking Problem [Video] Here’s a trailer for nutty director David Cronenberg’s new movie, A Dangerous Method, starring Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud, Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung and Keira Knightley as Sabina Spielrein. That’s right, Cronenberg is putting the “psychoanalytic thought” in “psychosexual drama”! More » [link]