Man Arrested For Harassing Keira

A man has appeared in court charged with harassing actress Keira Knightley.

Marek Daniluk, 41, a Polish national, of Godolphin Close, Enfield, appeared before magistrates in Westminster who set a trial date for 4 June.

He was arrested on Thursday outside the Comedy Theatre, Panton Street, London where Knightley, 24, is currently appearing in Moliere’s The Misanthrope.

It came after a woman complained to police about the behaviour of a man outside the theatre on Wednesday.

Knightley complained of being stalked by five people two years ago. It is believed to have led to her decision to move from the UK to the US.

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Feb01

Keira the Poetry Reader

The Poetry Archive, to celebrate Valentine’s Day, have compiled a selection of poems, one of which is read by Keira. The poems can be sent via mobile phones as a Valentine. Keira narrates Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, Loves’ Philosophy. Other celebrities who took part in the project include Rosamund Pike, Romola Garai and Alan Rickman. The recordings will be released next week.

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Feb01

News on “The Beautiful and the Damned”

British actress Keira Knightley will film her new movie in Croatia this spring.

Croatian daily newspaper Jutarnji List has reported that Knightley will play the role of Zelda, the wife of American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald, in a movie about his life.

The movie “The Beautiful and the Damned” will be filmed in capital Zagreb and in former Austro-Hungarian holiday resort Opatija on the northern Adriatic coast.

The newspaper has speculated that Hollywood star Leonardo Di Caprio may play the role of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

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Jan27

Keira’s Mitch Griffiths Portrait to be Displayed in 2011

The Mitch Griffiths portrait of Keira will be part of a 2011 exhibition at The Halcyon Gallery, not 2010 as The Daily Mail reported in December. Press release.

This is the portrait we earlier reported Keira poised nude for.

Thanks to Keira Web, Source, & Keira Zone.

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Jan15

No ‘My Fair Lady’ For Keira!!!

According to The Daily Mail:

Keira Knightley will not play Eliza Doolittle in the new movie version of My Fair Lady.
The Oscar-nominated actress, currently energising the London theatre scene with her stage debut in The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre, has withdrawn herself from consideration for the role created by Audrey Hepburn in the landmark film based on the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical.
Over a period of two years, the 24-year-old star met producers Cameron Mackintosh and Duncan Kenworthy to discuss the possibility of playing the Covent Garden flower girl who becomes a Maycould fair lady after she meets Professor Henry Higgins.

Although strongly linked with the role (she had singing lessons and sang for Mackintosh), Keira was never officially offered the part. She is believed to have felt that the project was taking too long to get off the ground.

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Dec23

Keira’s New Role: From Play To Film

According to the guardian.co.uk, Keira is to star in the film production of “The Talking Cure”. No word yet on the truth of this, but we will keep you updated.

Keira Knightley is to take the lead in David Cronenberg’s first film in three years, reports the Playlist blog.

The Talking Cure, based on the Christopher Hampton play of the same name, will star Knightley as Sabina Spielrein, a Russian-Jewish psychiatric patient, who is said to have inspired some of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud’s most remarkable discoveries. Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender – who both featured in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds – are set to co-star, with Waltz as Freud, and Fassbender as Jung.

Hampton’s play focuses on the relationship between Spielrein and Jung, when he was treating her at the Burghölzli mental hospital near Zurich in 1904. Jung used Freudian techniques to try and overcome Spielrein’s association of paternal punishment with physical arousal.

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Dec14

Did Keira Pose Nude For A Painting?

This is the second nude portrai for Ms. Knightley. Keira first posed nude for Vanity Fair Magazine in 2006 with actress Scarlett Johansson and designer Tom Ford. This hasn’t been confirmed by Keira, so think of this as a rumor until otherwise stated.

Keira Knightley has posed nude for a painted portrait.

Actress Keira Knightley posed naked for a portrait by painter Mitch Griffith, and has reportedly been attending sittings at London’s Halcyon Gallery for a new exhibition.

A source said: “It’s considered a great honour to be painted by Mitch. He is a highly respected nude painter and is painting as number of subjects for a new exhibition next year. He is delighted Keira decided to take part.”

The 24-year-old actress – who is widely considered to be one of Hollywood’s most beautiful women – previously posed nude for the cover of Vanity Fair in 2006 with actress Scarlett Johansson and designer Tom Ford.

Keira is currently starring in play The Misanthrope, which is running in London’s West End theatre district.

In the production, a modern-day version of Moliere’s 17th Century comedy work, Keira plays a vacuous Hollywood starlet.

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Dec01

John Madden to Direct ‘My Fair Lady’

The rain in Spain might fall on the plains for director John Madden.

The Brit director, perhaps best known for 1998’s ‘Shakespeare in Love,’ could take on George Bernard Shaw if he does indeed direct the Columbia Pictures remake of ‘My Fair Lady,’ as reported by Variety. Madden is in talks to come on board the reboot, which does not have a Prof. Higgins or an Eliza Doolittle attached. Keira Knightley’s name has been oft repeated to play Eliza, but — as she told Moviefone earlier this year — nothing so far has been signed.

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Nov25

$35,000 for the Green Dress?!

Yes, thats right! The LA Times is reporting that the green dress worn by Keira in Atonement was recently sold for a whooping $35 grand! Amazing, huh? It was all for a good cause, though.

Someone recently paid $35,000 at auction for an emerald-green silk gown. It’s backless and a diminutive size 2, so we know that the stiletto-high price wasn’t pegged to the amount of fabric that went into its making.

This striking piece, worn by Keira Knightley in the film ” Atonement,” is already regarded in some quarters as on its way to becoming one of the iconic dresses in film history. Someday it could be right up there with the little black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and Marilyn Monroe’s fabled white number blown heavenward in “The Seven Year Itch.”

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Nov07

Joe Wright Will NOT Direct ‘My Fair Lady’

So, this just in. Joe Wright will NOT, I repeat will not be directing ‘My Fair Lady’.

When we reported earlier this week that Keira Knightley would star in a Joe Wright-directed remake of My Fair Lady, we were already getting conflicting reports that neither Knightley nor Wright had a thing to do with the movie.

Now we have confirmation from one participant, at least. Screenrush caught up with Wright on the red carpet at the London Film Festival, and he assured them that the reports of him directing My Fair Lady are “all a lie.”

Interestingly, he couldn’t say much about Knightley’s participation– “Keira might well do it”– which probably mean the years-old reports about Knightley being in the film are still valid. Below you can see Wright’s rebuttal for yourself, including what seems to be utter bewilderment that anyone would make up this story to begin with.

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