Kiera Knightley and Her Mother

Submitted by Adriana Rae on August 22, 2006 - 14:35.

Kiera Knightley's mother is not afraid of gray hair. Is this photo taken in Los Angeles? If so, this is the first sighting we've seen of a woman under sixty with gray hair in L.A.!

Kiera exists only because her mother suffered from crippling stage fright and no longer wanted to act in the early 1980's. Her husband didn't think they could afford to have a second child but made a deal with her that if she could sell a play then they could go ahead and have a second baby. Sharman MacDonald was soon successful in selling a play, and Kiera was born in 1985. Since then, Sharman MacDonald,55, has become a noted playwright and novelist.