Skandar Keynes is an English political adviser and former actor. Best
known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in the Chronicles of Narnia film
series since 2005, he appeared in all three installments, The Lion,
the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and most recently The
Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which was released on 10 December
2010.Keynes was born in Camden, London. His mother is Lebanese Zelfa
Hourani and his father is author Randal Keynes. He has an older
sister, Soumaya Anne Keynes (born July 31 1989), who has appeared in
various productions for BBC Radio 4 and now works as an economist at
the Institute for Fiscal Studies.On his father's side, Keynes is of
English descent, and is the grandson of physiologist Richard Keynes,
the nephew of two Cambridge professors, the historian Simon Keynes,
and the neuroscientist Roger Keynes, the cousin of Catholic writer and
apologist Laura Keynes, and the great-great-nephew of economist John
Maynard Keynes. His great-great-great-grandfather was naturalist
Charles Darwin. Keynes' great-grandparents were Nobel Prize laureate
Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian and Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian.
known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in the Chronicles of Narnia film
series since 2005, he appeared in all three installments, The Lion,
the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and most recently The
Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which was released on 10 December
2010.Keynes was born in Camden, London. His mother is Lebanese Zelfa
Hourani and his father is author Randal Keynes. He has an older
sister, Soumaya Anne Keynes (born July 31 1989), who has appeared in
various productions for BBC Radio 4 and now works as an economist at
the Institute for Fiscal Studies.On his father's side, Keynes is of
English descent, and is the grandson of physiologist Richard Keynes,
the nephew of two Cambridge professors, the historian Simon Keynes,
and the neuroscientist Roger Keynes, the cousin of Catholic writer and
apologist Laura Keynes, and the great-great-nephew of economist John
Maynard Keynes. His great-great-great-grandfather was naturalist
Charles Darwin. Keynes' great-grandparents were Nobel Prize laureate
Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian and Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian.
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