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Keira Knightley signs autographs for fans after performing at the West End at London’s Comedy Theatre on Saturday (December 5).

The 24-year-old British actress had just performed Martin Crimp’s blistering version of Molière’s greatest comedy, The Misanthrope.

Synopsis: Transported from 17th Century Paris to modern-day London, Alceste (Damian Lewis) is a famous British playwright, disillusioned and angry with the hypocrisy, shallowness and vanity of the contemporary world. Vowing to reject society, Alceste’s plans are derailed when he falls madly in love with Jennifer (Knightley). An ambitious American film star and darling of the social scene, she may prove to be his biggest challenge yet.

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The professional stage debut of Keira Knightley has been astutely packaged. The star of Pirates of the Caribbean, The Duchess and Atonement has been parachuted into a rhyming play by Molière, but one that allows her to keep a toehold in the world she knows.

Martin Crimp’s version of The Misanthrope, first performed at the Young Vic in 1996, updates Molière’s savage attack on 17th-century social mores to the present-day world of theatre and the media. He has revamped it for this star-studded West End revival. Knightley, 24, plays Jen­nifer, 22, a sizzling-hot American film star who has briefly descended on London. It may not be the lead role, but it’s the eye-catching one around which all the other characters flit. Damian Lewis plays Alceste, a playwright petulantly in love with Jennifer. Tara Fitz­gerald plays an older mentor desperate to hang onto her rights of access to the star.

The production is directed by Thea Sharrock, who has form when it comes to ushering the young stars of Hollywood franchises onto the stage. In Equus, she coaxed out of Daniel Radcliffe a performance of unexpec­ted detail and emotional heft. Lewis, in Band of Brothers, and Fitzgerald, in The Camomile Lawn, both made their name in front of the camera, too.

How did each of you respond to Martin Crimp’s modernised version?

Thea Sharrock: On my first reading, I was amazed the thing did not feel like something that had been written 15 years ago.

Tara Fitzgerald: It’s so nice to read something that’s so irreverent.

Damian Lewis: I knew the play and always loved it. It’s a fascinating theme. The targets have always been the same, since 1666: the hypocrisy and insincerity, the transience of the fashion-based world. It’s now the media-based world, but it’s instantly recognisable.

Keira Knightley: Ditto. [Everyone laughs.]

Could I maybe have a bit more?

Knightley: It made me giggle. That really was it. I’ve been sent things that were very serious, and I read this and thought, “How lovely, that really might be fun.” I’d just been to see quite a few tragedies in the theatre. You get that numb-bum feeling, and I thought, “Ooh, I don’t want to be part of a numb-bum show.” I’d done a lot of serious dramas on film, and I fancied doing something that might actually make people giggle.

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Keira seen leaving rehearsals in London yesterday.

Keira Knightley’s stage debut has taken £1million at the box office within just four days – and the cast hasn’t even started rehearsals yet.

The West End production, a new version of Molière’s famous comedy The Misanthrope, which also stars Damian Lewis, hadn’t been advertised until this week, with just a small article in Baz Bamigboye’s Daily Mail column breaking the news a few days ago, which was swiftly picked up by news outlets around the world.

However, fans of the Oscar-nominated star have since flooded the box office line with ticket requests, almost guaranteeing a sell-out success when it opens for previews in early December.

It’s been a quiet year for Keira, who’s kept her flawless face out of the papers thanks to a full-on schedule of filming and few red carpet appearances. However, it’ll be business as usual next year with four of the star’s films due for release, including the eagerly awaited London Boulevard, co-starring Colin Farrell and Anna Friel, and Never Let Me Go, alongside Charlotte Rampling and hot new face Carey Mulligan.

Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley has revealed she is “terrified but excited” about starting her first West End role.

The Teddington-born beauty (pictured in character) will portray a flirtatious Hollywood film star in the modern-day adaption of Moliere’s 17th century masterpiece, The Misanthrope.

With rehearsals starting next month, Keira will begin treading the boards on December 7 alongside Band of Brothers actor Damian Lewis

Theatre is a life-long ambition for the British star, who is the daughter of award-winning playwright and Calendar Girls actor Will Knightley, and dramatist Sharman Macdonald.

“It’s in my blood,” she says.

The show’s director Thea Sharrock has complete confidence in the 24-year-old.

“She’s absolutely ready to come into this vulnerable position – and I’m interested in working with her, to push her in a way that I don’t think she has been pushed before,” says the director, who cast Daniel Radcliffe in Equus.

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MailOnline – June 20, 2009

It’s beyond the wildest dreams of most writers – persuading an Oscar-nominated Hollywood actress to appear in their first short film.

Let alone one such as Keira Knightley, who made £16m in 2008 and was named by Forbes as the second highest earning female in movies.

But that’s just what has happened to Rupert Friend, who has cast her in his debut, the The Continuing And Lamentable Saga Of The Suicide Brothers.

Of course it helps that the 24-year-old is his girlfriend.

Friend, who has been dating Knightley for four years, co-wrote the film with friend Tom Mison and both have starring roles.

In the film two brothers named Bourbon and Barath (Friend and Mison) go out to the shed to kill themselves everyday at two o’clock.

They try a different method each time. But each day they fail, having overlooked the presence of their frustrated fairy godmother (Knightley).

The Pirates Of The Caribbean and Atonement star undergoes a transformation for the film, in white backcombed wig and ghostly pale powdered skin.

Keira wears a bedraggled frayed dress and wings created by Oscar-winning Duchess designer Michael O’Connor.

The film also features Keira’s older brother Caleb’s soundscapes.

Yesterday Friend and Keira were arm-in-arm as they attended a London screening of the film.

Keira wore a floor-length black silk dress decorate with a painted floral design.

She has been in Somerset working on her next movie, Never Let Me Go, while Friend, 27, is currently filming The Kid, which is based on the true story of a boy in care who gets sucked into London’s criminal underworld.

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