Keira Knightley feels conjusted in Hollywood

Keira Knightley has vowed never to live in Hollywood because it’s a city with a one-track mind. The Pirates Of The Caribbean star says that she could never survive in such a suffocating environment.















Keira Christina Knightley was born in the South London suburb of Richmond on March 26th 1985. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald. An older brother, Caleb, was born in 1979.

Brought up immersed in the acting profession from both sides - writing and performing - it is little wonder that the young Keira asked for her own agent at the age of three. She was granted one at the age of six and performed in her first TV role as Little Girl in "Screen One: Royal Celebration (#5.4)" (1993), aged seven.




















It was discovered at an early age that Keira had severe difficulties in reading and writing. She was not officially dyslexic as she never sat the formal tests required of the British Dyslexia Association.

Instead she worked incredibly hard, encouraged by her family, until the problem had been overcome by her early teens. However, Knightley's first high profile role came in 1999, as Sabe, Decoy Queen to Natalie Portman's Queen Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).




















Since then she has completed an impressive array of films including The Hole (2001), but is probably best known for her role of tomboy footballer Jules Paxton in Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham (2002).

Though Knightley has become a well-known name in Hollywood, she says she cannot bear to live amongst her movie-obsessed contemporaries.

The British actress says she loves living in London because of the cosmopolitan lifestyle there helps her development as an actress — something tinseltown could never manage.




















She explains in a magazine interview, “It’s a funny place — I could never live in Hollywood, because there’s nowhere to escape to. You find yourself sitting around a lot and every conversation you have is about movies.

I think you have to be in a city that has different walks of life that you can observe and, for me, that’s London.”