Skandar Keynes

Infobox actor
name = Skandar Keynes


caption =
birthdate = Birth date and age|1991|9|5|df=yes
birthplace = London, England
birthname = Skandar Amin Casper Keynes
nickname = Skandykanes
official website = www.skandar-keynes.com

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, ' and ', released on 16 May 2008, and will star in "", due 7 May 2010.cite news|url=http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/index.jsp?fn=2007/09/20/233317.html|date=2007-09-21|accessdate=2007-09-21|publisher=E! Entertainment|title=Narnia Voyage Postponed to 2010]

Biography

Skandar Keynes was born in London, the son of Zelfa Cecil Hourani and writer Randal Keynes. His maternal grandfather, Cecil Fadlo Hourani, is a famous writer of Lebanese descent, and the brother of Albert Hourani, also a well-known writer and professor. On his father's side Keynes is the great-great-great grandson of the famous biologist Charles Darwin, through whose paternal grandmother Mary Howard he is descended from Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (uncle to both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard) and thus from King Edward I. Keynes is also the great-great nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes and the nephew of the historian and Cambridge professor Simon Keynes. Through his great-grandmother, Hester Agnes Pinsentndashthe wife of Nobel Prize laureate Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrianndashhe is also related to the Scottish philosopher David Hume. [cite web |url=http://74.125.39.104/search?q=cache:9udZsivk8sQJ:www.manfamily.org/PDFs/NOTES%2520ON%2520THE%2520RENDALL%2520FAMILY.pdf+%22Hume+Chancellor+Pinsent%22+%22david+hume%22&hl=nl&ct=clnk&cd=3 |accessdate=2008-05-29|title=Notes on the Rendall family] 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. [cite web |url=http://www.narniafans.com/?id=813 |title=Exclusive Interview with Skandar Keynes |accessdate=2008-06-18 |last=Martin|first=Paul |date=2006-03-25 |work=Narnia Fans |quote=I am an Atheist. I know the film's really Christian and everything and it does really affect me. Oh and you know I'm related to Charles Darwin.] [cite web |url=http://www.popcorn.co.uk/page.asp?partid=786|title=William Moseley and Skandar Keynes Interview! |accessdate=2008-06-25 |last=Savage|first=David |date=2006-06-19 |work=Popcorn |quote=So apparently I'm an atheist, I'm into Darwin...]

Keynes attended the Anna Scher Theatre School from 2000 to 2005 and currently attends the all-boys City of London School along with Daniel Radcliffe. He sat his GSCEs in May and June 2008 and started Sixth Form and his first year of his A Level studies the following September. He is taking History, Biology, Chemistry and Maths at A-Level.

In the summer of 2006, Keynes and his grandfather, mother, and sister were forced to flee from Beirut, Lebanon, where the family was holidaying when the 2006 Lebanon War began.cite web|last=Anderson|first=Jon Lee|title=Change of Plans|publisher=The New Yorker|date=2006-07-24|url=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060731ta_talk_anderson|accessdate=2006-10-18]

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 supports Arsenal F.C..

He auditioned (successfully) for "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" at the same as he auditioned (unsuccessfully) for the role of Simon Brown in "Nanny McPhee". His voice broke during the filming of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", leaving his sister Soumaya to voice some of his lines. [cite video|people=Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, and Andrew Adamson|title=The Chronicles of Narnia:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [Cast Commentary] |medium=DVD|year=2006]

Filmography

ee also

*Keynes family
*Darwin-Wedgwood family

References

External links

* [http://www.skandar-keynes.com Official website]
*imdb name|id=1342727|name=Skandar Keynes
* [http://www.yehey.com/entertainment/celebs/article.aspx?id=213858 Prince Caspian Interview] (12 May 2008)
* [http://www.movieweb.com/video/V08E8dhosxJKMN Prince Caspian On set interview] (July 2007)
* [http://www.narniafans.com/?id=813 Narniafans interview] (25 March 2006)
* [http://www.cinecon.com/news.php?id=0512072 Cinema Confidential interview] (December 7, 2005)
* [http://www.skandar.net Skandar Keynes Online] - Fansite