Keira Knightley is raising two girls.
The actress and her husband James Righton became parents for the first time in 2015 with the birth of their daughter Edie. In 2019, they had their second child, Delilah.
Although Knightley keeps her children out of the spotlight, she has talked about her young daughters in interviews. “The love thing is astonishing,” she said Ella emotions that come with motherhood. “It’s a very primal, primal love. It’s quite unusual.”
In a conversation with PEOPLE 2022 Love actually the actress opened up about her plans to give Edie and Delilah the clothes she’s worn throughout her career.
“I’ve been working for Chanel for a very long time and I’m very lucky to have some great Chanel pieces, so I’m sure at some point they’ll be able to raid the wardrobe and get them,” Knightley said.
In August 2024, Knightley revealed that one of her daughters had been diagnosed with dyslexia — a learning disorder she was also diagnosed with at age 6.
“We have a child with dyslexia,” she said Ruthie’s table 4 podcast, adding that “her daughter’s memory is absolutely amazing.”
Here’s everything you need to know about Keira Knightley’s two daughters.
Edie Knightley Righton, 9
Knightley gave birth to her first child – a daughter named Edie – on May 25, 2015.
“She’s great in every way. She’s obviously a genius, and obviously the best kid in the whole world. And very well made,” Knightley told PEOPLE of her older daughter. “But yeah, I’m very happy. She’s great. She’s totally great.”
Edie’s personality shone through from an early age, including a few missteps that made her mom and dad nervous.
The bride famously uttered her first expletive the night Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election — and the second occasion was just as memorable. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Knightley admitted that Edie dropped the f-bomb after her dad almost crashed the car.
“It was one of those country roads where there’s a blind corner and suddenly another car comes,” she explained. “The brakes were applied and there was no crash, but immediately after that there was silence and a little voice said, ‘Dad, is that when you say k…?’ ”
“It was very polite,” Knightley continued. “Besides, she never said anything – there was no swearing. So only twice, and both times perfectly.”
Knightley admitted that Edie isn’t particularly interested in her movies, but that’s something she’s “totally on board with.”
“I made a version Nutcracker a few years ago, and she actually came to the set with me when she was 3, so I thought, ‘Oh, maybe she wants to watch it this year?’ ” she revealed to PEOPLE in 2022.”[But] she said ‘No’. ”
“So she’s completely disinterested in seeing me in any way on television, which is only fair,” Knightley added. “I think that’s very healthy.”
It is not known if Edie will follow in her mother’s starry footsteps; it is certainly not at the top of the list of priorities for young people right now.
“She wanted to be a dentist, and now apparently she’s been to the zoo and she wants to be a gorilla. So we’ll see,” Knightley told PEOPLE in 2018. “Hopefully a dentist. That might be a little tricky if she wanted to be a gorilla when she grows up. ”
Delilah Knightley Righton, 5
Knightley’s younger daughter, Delilah, was born on September 13, 2019.
Delilah has been eager to explore since early childhood, as Knightley explained that the child started walking long before her first birthday.
“We closed when she was about six months old [old]so she’s had a very strange life,” Knightley told Jimmy Fallon during Tonight’s show interview. “And that somehow included my then four-year-old daughter, who turned 5 in isolation, running around [her baby sister] a lot, because we couldn’t get out.”
Perhaps as a result, “The baby I thought there would be [sitting] and very easy to watch for a while, at 9 months, I just decided to get up and walk,” she added. “I think at any other time, if we hadn’t been locked up, I would have been like, ‘Wow, my kid is a genius!’ And as it was, I just said, ‘Sit down. we are not ready for this too.’ ”
Now 5, Deliah and her sister love Disney+, Knightley told PEOPLE in 2022.
“Encanto is really big in our house. I mean, huge,” she said. “Even my two-year-old can sing ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno,’ so there’s a lot Encanto.”
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