Keira Knightley Trivia

Keira Knightley Facts

• Keira Knightley is trained in dancing.
• When Keira played Natalie Portman’s decoy in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), she and Natalie would wear the same costume and makeup. Even their own mothers couldn’t tell them apart.
• She did her first nude scene at the age of 15, in The Hole (2001). The film was released when she was 16.
• At age 20, she is the third youngest woman to be nominated for Best Actress in Oscar history.
• Keira is friends with Sienna Miller.
• Said auditioning for the role of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera was the singularly most embarrassing moment of her life because “I knew I couldn’t sing it.” The role eventually went to trained opera singer Emmy Rossum.
• She has a belly-button ring.
• Her favorite actresses are Vivien Leigh and Katharine Hepburn.