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Skandar Amin Casper Keynes (born 5 September 1991) is an English actor best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in the 2005 film adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He returned in the role of Edmund in the film's sequels The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Keynes was born in London, to writer Randal Keynes and Zelfa Cecil Hourani, and has a sister called Soumaya. Through his father, Keynes is the great-great-great grandson of the famous scientist Charles Darwin. His paternal great-grandfather, Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932.

His maternal grandfather, Cecil Fadlo Hourani, is a famous writer, and the brother of Albert Hourani, also a well-known writer and professor. Skandar's father is of English descent and his mother is of Lebanese, as well as Persian and Turkish, ancestry. He attended the Anna Scher Theatre School from 2000 to 2005, and the all-boys City of London School.

Skandar Keynes in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Awards

Skandar Keynes

Young Artist Awards

Character and Morality in Entertainment Awards

Voice Arts Awards

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