Frugal Keira rakes in £3m for Pirates cameo role
Leftie luvvie Keira Knightley is laughing all the way to the bank. the 33-year-old actress has amassed £15.7 million in her personal businesses, according to accounts published by Companies House
this represents a £3 million increase in just one year. the bulk of the money came from last year’s Pirates Of the Caribbean movie, Dead Men tell No tales, in which she had a cameo role.
Details are revealed in paperwork for KCK Boo Ltd, Keira’s company, which channels her earnings from acting. the document shows that the company has a bank balance of £13.2 million, but after taking into account creditors owed £1.5 million, she is left with a surplus of £11.7 million. that’s up from the previous year’s figure of £8.7 million, when she made the relatively smaller amount of £1 million.
the accounts are signed off by Keira’s mother, a writer, who helps with her financial affairs.
Knightley, who starred in the first Pirates Of the Caribbean film in 2003, has another business called Ponder Rights. its accounts earlier this year reported shareholder funds at £4 million — £200,000 up on the £3.8 million in the business in 2016.
the actress, who has a three-yearold daughter edie with husband James Righton, said in 2014 that she gave herself a yearly salary of £30,000 to stop her from losing touch with her less affluent friends.
She said: ‘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 is famously frugal. When she shops at her local tesco with her husband, they have been known to use separate checkouts. Laboursupporting Keira lives in a £4 million North London mansion with her family and once said ed Miliband was not sufficiently Left-wing.