The word that is most suitable to describe the success of this leading lady Keira Knightley is "Instant Wonder". Very few actresses have enjoyed the kind of successful joy ride Keira Knightley has recently experienced. With her major debut "Pirates Of The Caribbean" this up and coming actress has reserved for herself a place in the all-time Top 20 of box-office hits. Moreover this success of her acted as a catalyst to further push the box office ratings of much talked about "Bend It Like Beckham".

Keira got her first brush with acting at the age of 7,with her TV debut, Royal Celebration, concerning the complicated lives and loves in a London square at the time of Prince Charles' marriage to Diana Spencer and featuring the likes of Kenneth Cranham, Minnie Driver and Rupert Graves. After that she gave acting a break and concentrated on her education. In 1994 she once again came to the stage in a minor role in Joanna Trollope's controversial drama A Village Affair, featuring a lesbian relationship between Sophie Ward and Kerry Fox. Bend It Like Bekham, that won great accolades was much tiring for this young lady. The reason that made the role challenging was, the role being too physically demanding in terms of the hectic training in soccer that actress went through.

Unlike the other young girls of Keira's age , who want to make big into the movie world with a sole aim of making big bucks, this actress is keen on establishing herself as an actress rather than a money making movie star. Her spell bounding performances in movies like King Arthur are evident of this fact.
Further talking about Keira's accomplishments we would like to say that, her scintillating beauty has made her the focus of 2004 feature of TIME magazine. Apart from this, she is one actress who is voted as movie industry's most promising Teen Star in July 2004 by Hello! Magazine.

Talking about the current standing of the actress we have to say that, Keira has begun the year 2005 with The Jacket, where she has appeared nude for the first time. As far as the future plans are concerned, the budding actress is shooting for her movie which is a sequel, named Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest. This movie is scheduled to be released in 2006. Keira's next release in line is Domino, which is supposed to hit the theatres later this year. But the most talked about movie on Keira's resume is Pride and Prejudice, where she is playing one of the five Bennet sisters whose sole aim is to get married and preferably to a rich man. But nothing can be said about Keira's love life in reality.

 So, this means that all Keira has much in store for the eager fans, hope the actress come up to their expectations.