Keira Knightley led the London premiere of The Woman in Cabin 10, Simon Stone's adaptation of Ruth Ware's thriller, at the British Academy's home on Piccadilly.
Simon Stone’s The Woman in Cabin 10, from Ruth Ware’s thriller, held its London premiere at BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, in St James’s on Thursday 25 September 2025. Keira Knightley led the cast on the carpet.
Knightley was born in Teddington in 1985 to the actor Will Knightley and the playwright Sharman Macdonald. Her breakthrough came in Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham, and Pirates of the Caribbean made her an international name in 2003.
Pride & Prejudice brought her an Academy Award nomination at 20, and The Imitation Game brought a second. On stage she has played The Misanthrope and The Children’s Hour at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
Stone adapted Ware’s 2016 novel. Knightley plays the investigative journalist Laura Blacklock, a guest aboard a dying billionaire’s superyacht bound for a fundraising gala in Norway. She sees a woman go overboard, yet no passenger is missing.
Guy Pearce, Hannah Waddingham, Daniel Ings and David Ajala joined Knightley that evening. Netflix released the film on 10 October.
Stone returned to London a year later with Elsinore, the film that opened the 70th BFI London Film Festival.