# List of Keira Knightley performances

Keira Knightley is an English actress who began her career by appearing in commercials and television films, including The Treasure Seekers (1996), Coming Home (1998), and Oliver Twist (1999) before making her major motion picture debut in the space-opera epic Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) as Padmé Amidala's handmaiden. She portrayed the daughter of Robin Hood in the romantic adventure film Princess of Thieves (2001), her first starring role, and earned her breakthrough by playing a teen tomboy footballer in sports comedy Bend It Like Beckham (2002). A year later, Knightley rose to global stardom after appearing as Elizabeth Swann in the fantasy swashbuckler film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, co-starring Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, for which she received two Saturn Award nominations, one for Best Supporting Actress.
She then appeared in the Richard Curtis-directed Christmas romance Love Actually (2003) as a woman whose fiancée's best man is secretly in love with her. Knightley portrayed the daughter of an alcoholic in psychological thriller The Jacket (2005). She starred as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright's romantic drama Pride & Prejudice (2005), for which Knightley received her first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination, becoming the third-youngest Best Actress nominee. The film clinched her long association with period dramas. She reprised her role as Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007); the former is her highest-grossing release. Knightley subsequently appeared in two wartime dramas; as a complex love interest in Wright's Atonement (2007), which earned her an Empire Award for Best Actress and a jazz singer in the biopic The Edge of Love (2008). She starred as eighteenth-century tastemaker Georgiana Cavendish in the drama The Duchess (2008), for which she received positive reviews.
She made her theatre debut as a shallow, amorous film star in The Misanthrope, which earned Knightley her a nomination for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play. Also on West End, she then portrayed a schoolteacher accused of lesbianism in The Children's Hour. She reunited with Wright for the third time with historical romance Anna Karenina (2012), playing the titular aristocratic socialite to critical acclaim. Knightley expanded into contemporary roles with musical drama Begin Again (2014), starring as an aspiring songwriter, and action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) as a medical student. Her role as an overeducated underachiever in the rom-com Laggies (2014) was followed by a return to historical parts as cryptanalyst Joan Clarke in the drama The Imitation Game (2014), which garnered Knightley an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. The following year, she made her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin playing a psychotic and repressed wife. Knightley appeared as the eponymous belle époque writer in biographical film Colette (2018) to positive reception. In wartime drama The Aftermath (2019), Knightley portrayed a cold, complex army wife. She starred in succeeding political dramas as whistleblower Katharine Gun in Official Secrets (2019) and feminist Sally Alexander in Misbehaviour (2020).

## Cinema

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1995 | Innocent Lies | Young Celia | |
| 1999 | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | Sabé | Credit misspelled as "Kiera" Knightley |
| 2001 | Deflation | Jogger | Short film |
| 2001 | The Hole | Frankie Smith | |
| 2002 | Thunderpants | Music School Student | Uncredited |
| 2002 | Pure | Louise | |
| 2002 | Bend It Like Beckham | Jules Paxton | |
| 2002 | New Year's Eve | Leah | Short film |
| 2002 | The Seasons Alter | Helena | Short film |
| 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Elizabeth Swann | |
| 2003 | Love Actually | Juliet | |
| 2003 | Gaijin | Kate | Short film; voice role |
| 2004 | King Arthur | Guinevere | |
| 2005 | The Jacket | Jackie Price | |
| 2005 | Pride & Prejudice | Elizabeth Bennet | |
| 2005 | Domino | Domino Harvey | |
| 2006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Elizabeth Swann | |
| 2007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Elizabeth Swann | |
| 2007 | Atonement | Cecilia Tallis | |
| 2007 | Silk | Hélène Joncour | |
| 2008 | The Edge of Love | Vera Phillips | |
| 2008 | The Duchess | Georgiana Cavendish | |
| 2009 | The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers | The Fairy | Short film |
| 2010 | Never Let Me Go | Ruth C | |
| 2010 | Maze | Constance | Video installation |
| 2010 | Last Night | Joanna Reed | |
| 2010 | Steve | Woman | Short film |
| 2010 | London Boulevard | Charlotte | |
| 2011 | A Dangerous Method | Sabina Spielrein | |
| 2012 | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World | Penelope Lockhart | |
| 2012 | Anna Karenina | Anna Arkadyevna Karenina | |
| 2013 | Once Upon a Time | Gabrielle Chanel | Short film |
| 2013 | Begin Again | Gretta James | |
| 2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Cathy Muller | |
| 2014 | Laggies | Megan Burch | |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game | Joan Clarke | |
| 2015 | Everest | Jan Hall | |
| 2016 | Collateral Beauty | Amy / "Love" | |
| 2017 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | Elizabeth Swann-Turner | Cameo |
| 2018 | Colette | Gabrielle Colette | |
| 2018 | The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | Sugar Plum Fairy | |
| 2019 | Official Secrets | Katharine Gun | |
| 2019 | Berlin, I Love You | Jane | Segment: "Under Your Feet" |
| 2019 | The Aftermath | Rachael Morgan | |
| 2019 | Greed | Herself | Cameo |
| 2020 | Misbehaviour | Sally Alexander | |
| 2021 | Charlotte | Charlotte Salomon | Voice role |
| 2021 | Silent Night | Nell | |

## Television

Key :
| † | Denotes series that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1993 | Screen One | Little Girl | Episode: "Royal Celebration" |
| 1995 | A Village Affair | Natasha Jordan | Television film |
| 1995 | The Bill | Sheena Rose | Episode: "Swan Song" |
| 1996 | The Treasure Seekers | The Princess | Television film |
| 1998 | Coming Home | Young Judith Dunbar | Television film |
| 1999 | Oliver Twist | Rose Fleming | Miniseries |
| 2001 | Princess of Thieves | Gwyn | Television film |
| 2002 | Doctor Zhivago | Lara Antipova | Miniseries |
| 2007 | Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind | Em | Television short film; voice role |
| 2011 | Neverland | Tinker Bell | Miniseries; voice role |
| 2017 | Red Nose Day Actually | Juliet | Television short film |
| 2023 | Boston Strangler | Loretta McLaughlin | Television film |
| 2024 | Totally Spies! | Geraldine Husk | Voice role |
| 2024 | Black Doves | Helen | |
| TBA | The Woman in Cabin 10 † | Laura "Lo" Blacklock | Post-Production |

## Theatre

| Year | Production | Role | Playwright | Theatre |
| 1999 | After Juliet | Rosaline | Sharman Macdonald | Heatham House Youth Centre Twickenham, England |
| 2009–2010 | The Misanthrope | Jennifer (Célimène) | Molière | Comedy Theatre London, England |
| 2011 | The Children's Hour | Karen Wright | Lillian Hellman | Comedy Theatre London, England |
| 2015 | Thérèse Raquin | Thérèse Raquin | Helen Edmundson | Roundabout Theatre Company New York City, NY, U.S. |

## Video games

List of video game credits :
| Year | Title | Voice role | Notes | Ref. |
| 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean | Narrator | | |

## Music videos

List of music video credits :
| Year | Title | Artist(s) | Role | Director(s) |
| 2017 | "Let Her Love In" | Shock Machine (James Righton) | The Girl with the Pink Dress | James Righton |

## Radio

List of radio credits :
| Year | Title | Voice role | Notes |
| 1999 | Villette | Polly | |

## Discography

Guest appearances
List of musical guest appearances :
| Year | Album | Track(s) |
| 2007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | "Hoist the Colours" |
| 2008 | The Edge of Love | "Overture / Blue Tahitian Moon" (featuring Angelo Badalamenti) |
| 2008 | The Edge of Love | "After the Bombing / Hang Out the Stars in Indiana" (featuring Angelo Badalamenti) |
| 2008 | The Edge of Love | "Drifting and Dreaming" (featuring Angelo Badalamenti) |
| 2008 | The Edge of Love | "Maybe It's Because I Love You Too Much" (featuring Angelo Badalamenti) |
| 2014 | Begin Again | "Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home" |
| 2014 | Begin Again | "Lost Stars" |
| 2014 | Begin Again | "Like a Fool" |
| 2014 | Begin Again | "Coming Up Roses" |
| 2014 | Begin Again | "A Step You Can't Take Back" |
| 2014 | Begin Again | "Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home (Roof Top Mix)" (featuring Hailee Steinfeld) |