Birth Name: Skandar Amin Casper Keynes

Category: Actor

Born: September 5, 1991

Location: London, England, UK

Astrological Sign: Virgo

Zodiac Year: Ram

Age: 18

Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Grade Level: Graduated in 2009

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

Filmography:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) .... Edmund Pevensie
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) .... Edmund Pevensie
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) .... Edmund Pevensie
Ferrari (2003) (TV) .... Enzo Ferrari at 8 years
Victoria Died in 1901 and Is Still Alive Today (2001) (TV) .... Waif

Biography:
Skandar Amin Casper Keynes (born 5 September 1991) is an English actor. He is best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. He has appeared in the first two installments, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, and will star in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, due in 2010.
Keynes was born in London, the son of Zelfa Cecil Hourani and author Randal Keynes. His maternal grandfather, the Lebanese Cecil Fadlo Hourani, is a former advisor to the late Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba, as well as a famous cook; Cecil Hourani is also the brother of Albert Hourani, a major historian of the Middle East. The Hourani family were immigrants to England from Deir Mimas in southern Lebanon.
On his father's side, Keynes is the great-great-great grandson of naturalist Charles Darwin, through whom he is descended from Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (uncle to both Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Catherine Howard), thus making him distantly related to Queen Elizabeth I and King Edward I. Keynes is the great-great nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes and the nephew of the historian and Cambridge professor Simon Keynes.[3] He is related to the poet Ruth Padel and, through his ancestral connection to the Wedgwood family, to socialist politician Tony Benn. Through his great-grandmother, Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian – the wife of Nobel Prize laureate Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian – he is also related to the Scottish philosopher David Hume. He has an older sister, Soumaya Keynes (born 1989), who has appeared in various productions for BBC Radio 4.
Keynes has stated that he is an atheist.
Keynes attended the Anna Scher Theatre School from 2000 to 2005, having attended Thornhill Primary school from 1996-2002. He currently attends the all-boys City of London School. He sat his GCSEs in May and June 2008 and started Sixth Form and his first year of his A-level studies the following September. He is doing biology, chemistry, maths, further maths and history at A-level. He currently writes as a film critic for the review section of The Citizen, the City of London School weekly school newspaper. He is a fan of English football club Arsenal.
Keynes currently resides in Highbury, London. He studies Tae Kwon Do and plays the cornet, the cello, the tuba, the flute, and the guitar.
He auditioned for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at the same time as he auditioned (unsuccessfully) for the role of Simon Brown in Nanny McPhee. His voice deepened during the filming of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, leaving his sister Soumaya to voice some of his lines.
He is currently filming The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third installment of The Chronicles of Narnia film series. Filming began in July of 2009, and finished in December of the same year. The film is set to be released on 10 December 2010 in the UK and US.


Trivia:
He grew six-and-a-half inches while filming The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). He had to get his armor fixed weekly.
Can ride a horse.
Plays the cornet and flute.
Attended Anna Scher Theatre School, 2000-2005.
Studies tae kwon do.
The name Skandar is of Turkish origin meaning Alexander; oddly enough his character Edmund Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) is obsessed with a delicacy called Turkish Delight.
He auditioned for the role of Simon in Nanny McPhee (2005), prior to being cast as Edmund in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). Thomas Sangster won the role of Simon.
Is the great-great-great grandson of naturalist Charles Darwin, and son of author Randal Keynes.
He has an elder sister named Soumaya.
He is the son of 'Zelfa Cecil Hourani' (who is of Lebanese descent) and Randal Keynes.
He attends the City of London School, a private all-boys school.
Attends the same school as actors Daniel Radcliffe and Harry Michell. As of September 2006 to July 2007, both he and Harry are in Fourth Form (Year Ten) with Dan in Senior Sixth Form (Year Thirteen).
Was banned from eating sugar products on set during the filming of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) due to hyperactive tendencies.
Plays cricket.
Loves playing video games.
He was trained to sword fight by sword trainer Allan Poppleton while working on the film The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and also learned to ride a horse. Enjoys playing football and is a supporter of Arsenal Football Club.
Despite his mother's Lebanese roots, his family's practice of vacationing in Beirut every summer, and his years of weekend language classes, he admitted to The New Yorker magazine that he "doesn't speak Arabic all that well."
His father is the great-nephew of famed economist John Maynard Keynes.
A piece in the July 31, 2006, issue of The New Yorker magazine reported that Keynes and his family had flee Beiruit shortly after arriving there for their annual summer vacation when the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict started. The family decided to leave when Skandar's grandfather had men, possibly Hezbollah militants, come to the house and asked him about the identities of the British visitors.
A descendant of Charles Darwin.

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