10 Things You Didn’t Know About Keira Knightley

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9. A Believer in Therapy

When she was in her early twenties, she sought therapy. “I’ve totally done therapy. I highly recommend it. I don’t do it at the moment. But in my early twenties when I found everything completely overwhelming, 100 percent, I did it! Are you kidding? I think when you’re in those moments in your life, and you want to get through them…you have to do whatever it is to help you get over it. You have to give it a go. Try anything that might help,” she told Elle.

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8. An Early Start

She got her first agent at the age of six and worked mostly in commercials and small TV roles until she landed the role of Sabé, Padmé Amidala’s decoy, in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

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6. A Family of Actors

Her mother, Sharman Macdonald, is an actress turned playwright and her father, Will Knightley, is an actor.

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5. Learning Disability

As a child, she was diagnosed with dyslexia and she dealt with it by reading Emma Thompson’s Oscar-winning screenplay for Sense and Sensibility.

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4. Her Misspelled Name

Her name was supposed to be spelled “Kiera,” but her mother misspelled her name when she went to go register, which is why it is spelled “Keira” instead.

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3. Ancestry

Her father is English and her mother is of Scottish and Welsh descent.

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2. Late Bloomer

When she was in school, she never had any boyfriends.

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1. Prom

She took her best friend (who was a girl) to her school’s prom. Keira wore a crop top and leather pants while her friend wore a black tie and ripped jeans. While she had a great time, her teachers weren’t into it. “One of the teachers took us both aside and said we were never going to come to anything if we didn’t know how to dress appropriately for events like that. So that was my prom. We had a great time!” she said. “We had our picture taken underneath the thing, and she’s kissing me, and we were told that that was disgusting. Although our photograph wasn’t allowed to be displayed because it was deemed ‘inappropriate.’

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Cate has a B.A. and an M.A. in English Literature and has been the Managing Editor of Fame10 for more than 6 years. Despite having a love for the works of Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy and Lord Byron, she also has an intense fascination with pop culture. When she isn’t writing for Fame10, she’s planning her next big adventure in Southeast Asia.