Skandar Keynes - Biography

Last Editor: domsdotcom				Skandar Keynes Biography -   Name : Skandar Keynes Birth name : Skandar Amin Casper Keynes Date of birth : 5 September 1991 Place of birth : London, England Profession : Actor Height : 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Skandar Keynes 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. He can ride a horse. He plays the cornet and flute. He attended Anna Scher Theatre School, 2000-2005. He 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. He is the great-great-great grandson of naturalist Charles Darwin and son of author Randal Keynes. He has an elder sister named Soumaya Keynes. 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. He 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). He 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. He plays cricket. He 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. He 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.

Skandar Keynes Detailed 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 Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, released on 16 May 2008, and will star in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, due 7 May 2010. 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 Pinsent – 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 and currently attends the all-boys City of London School along with Daniel Radcliffe. He starts Sixth Form and the first year of his A Level studies in September 2008. He has taken History, Biology, Chemistry and Maths for 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. 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.