Welcome to bmi’s new inflight entertainment listings guide

You’ll find the latest blockbusters, an excellent selection of TV and audio programmes and games that will keep you amused for hours on many of our flights. Our listings are now categorised by system a, b, c, d for flights from the UK and a, b, c, d for flights to the UK depending on what aircraft you’re flying on today. Your cabin crew will announce which listing you should refer to at the beginning of the flight. Don’t worry if you miss it, a member of cabin crew will be happy to advise you about the new guide.

• The actress, 22, grew up in an acting household – her parents are actor Will Knightley and playwright Sharman Macdonald.
• The lure of the screen called her at a very early age – she was only three when she asked for an agent and she got one aged six. Her first TV role was as Little Girl in Screen One: Royal Celebration (1993), aged seven, and her first film role was in Moira Armstrong’s A Village Affair (1994).
• Her resemblance to Natalie Portman clinched her first highprofi le role, in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) as Sabe, the Decoy Queen for Queen Amidala (Portman).
• While doing her GCSEs (she received six As and has dyslexia) in 2001, she also filmed her breakthrough role in Bend it Like Beckham.
• At 16, she started studying for her A Levels, but quit to play the role of Lara in the television film Doctor Zhivago (2002).
• She nearly missed out on the part of Elizabeth Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) as she got stuck in a traffic jam in London on the way to the audition.
• The already very svelte actress had to work out for four days a week for three months to get in shape for her role as Guinevere in King Arthur (2004).
• Knightley did all her own stunts in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) – she had begged to have a sword fight in the previous film but wasn’t allowed.
• At 20, she was the thirdyoungest woman in Oscar history to be nominated for Best Actress for Pride and Prejudice (2006).

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