Canny Keira’s treasure chest hits a hearty £12.5million

UNFAIRLY criticised for her ‘annoying’ monotone delivery and trademark pout, Leftie luvvie Keira Knightley is laughing all the way to the bank.

The 32-year-old Hollywood actress has amassed a staggering £12.5 million in her personal businesses, according to accounts recently published by Companies House.

The star, from Teddington in South-West London, said in 2014 that she gave herself an allowance of a mere £30,000 a year to stop her from losing less affluent friends. Accounts for her company KCK Boo Ltd report shareholders’ funds of £ 8.76 million in 2016, up from £7.73 million in 2015, suggesting a profit of more than £1 million in a single year.

The accounts are abbreviated so do not show how much Keira, whose films include Pirates Of The Caribbean and Atonement, was paid by the business through which she channels her earnings.

Keira is named as company secretary, while her playwright mother, Sharman Macdonald, is a director.

Her other British company is called Ponder Rights and has £3.79 million in shareholders’ funds, according to the latest figures. The

Chanel model said of her £30,000 salary in 2014: ‘I think living an [expensive] lifestyle means you can’t hang out with people who don’t live that lifestyle. It alienates you. Some of my best, most hilarious times, have been in the least luxurious places.’

Keira, pictured, who has a two-year-old daughter, Edie, is famously frugal.

When she shops at her local Tesco with her husband, Klaxons musician James Righton, 33, they have been known to use separate self- service checkouts.

Labour-supporting Keira lives in a £4 million North London mansion with her family. She bought the pad using a £2.3 million loan from her own company. She did this rather than take the cash in earnings, on which she would have otherwise had to pay 45 per cent income tax. Keira subsequently repaid the loan at a four per cent interest rate. The actress, who once said former Labour party leader Ed Miliband was not sufficiently Leftwing, was exploiting a legal loophole often used by the mega rich.