United Kingdom, Oct. 29 -- Keira Knightley accepts her 'nepo baby' tag.

The 40-year-old actress - the daughter of stage star Will Knightley and playwright Sharman Macdonald - refuses to get "annoyed" by the label as she knows that her parents gave her important "connections" at the beginning of her career.

Keira told Giovanna Fletcher's Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast: "I don't know about annoyed, I think I am a nepo baby. I mean my first proper agent was because she was my mum's best mate, and she's still my agent today.

"So, I mean, I think it is true that there are connections that are made, and it's true that within creative families, you know, a lot of the actors I know, it is generational.

"And I think partly that is because it is ...