Skandar Amin Casper Keynes (born 5 September 1991) is an English actor. He is best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in the 2005 film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He will appear in the film's sequel, currently scheduled for release in the summer of 2008.
Keynes was born in London to writer Randal Keynes and Zelfa Cecil Hourani. 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. Through his father, Keynes is the great-great-great grandson of the famous scientist Charles Darwin and the great-great nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes. He is himself an atheist. He has an older sister, Soumaya Keynes, who has appeared in various productions for BBC Radio 4. Keynes attended the Anna Scher Theatre School from 2000 to 2005 and currently attends the all-boys City of London School (which is also currently attended by actors Daniel Radcliffe and Harry Michell who is in the same year as he). As of September 2006, he began Fourth Form (Year Ten) at school, where he will start the first year of his GCSE studies. In the summer of 2006, Skandar found himself, his grandfather, mother, and sister trying to flee away from Beirut, Lebanon, where the family were holidaying when the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict began.
Keynes studies Taekwondo and plays the cornet, the flute, and the guitar. His voice broke during the filming of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, leaving his sister Soumaya to voice some of his lines.
