Skandar Keynes
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Skandar Keynes

Active - 2005 - 2010  |   Born - Sep 5, 1991 in Camden, London, England  |   Genres - Fantasy, Children's/Family

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Biography by Nathan Southern

British actor Skandar Keynes entered the limelight as a teenager, when tapped by producers to play Edmund Pevensie in Walden Media's big-budget 2005 installment of C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The success and critical acclaim afforded by that assignment (which did not constitute Keynes' debut role, but followed two low-key appearances on English television) led to successive film appearances as Edmund in additional installments of the Narnia series, beginning with 2005's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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  • Made his film debut in 2003's Enzo Ferrari, in which he played the 8-year-old Enzo, who would grow up to become a race-car driver and founder of the Ferrari sports-car company.
  • Was reunited with Enzo Ferrari costars Pierfrancesco Favino and Sergio Castellitto in 2008's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
  • Ran the 2012 Beirut Marathon.
  • Is half English, one quarter Lebanese, one eighth Persian and one eighth Turkish.
  • Name is the shortened version of Iskandar, which is Arabic for Alexander.
  • Is a great-great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin.
  • Plays the coronet and guitar.