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Keira Knightley has received two Academy Award nominations. She was nominated for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (2005), and for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Joan Clarke in The Imitation Game (2014).
Knightley revealed in 2018 that she had a mental breakdown at age twenty-two and was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. She did not leave her home for three months leading up to early 2008 and required hypnotherapy to manage panic attacks before attending that year's BAFTA Awards.
Knightley played Elizabeth Swann across the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, from The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003 through At World's End in 2007, and returned for a cameo in Dead Men Tell No Tales in 2017. Dead Man's Chest earned worldwide revenues of $1.066 billion, making it the biggest financial hit of her career.
Knightley made her West End debut in December 2009 at the Comedy Theatre, playing Jennifer in Martin Crimp's version of Molière's The Misanthrope. The performance earned her a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Knightley was intended to be named Kiera, after Soviet figure skater Kira Ivanova, whom her father admired. Her mother Sharman Macdonald, who is dyslexic, misspelt the name when registering the birth certificate, writing the e before the i, which produced the spelling Keira.
Knightley has worked extensively with Amnesty International, Oxfam, and Comic Relief. She donated the £3,000 in damages from a 2007 libel case, supplemented from her own funds, to the eating disorder charity Beat, bringing the total to £6,000. She also travelled to South Sudan in July 2014 on behalf of Oxfam to meet refugees of the South Sudanese Civil War.