Biography

Full Name: Skandar Amin Casper Keynes
Height: -"I'm 5"5 1/2, 5"6 tall" Our beloved Skandar, now fourteen, was born in London on September 5th, 1991. His parents were Zelfa Cecil Hourani (mother) and author Randall Keynes (father). He grew up living in London where he started pursuing a career in acting at the age of nine, when he began attending the Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington with his older sister, Sumaya.

Shortly after that, he made his first professional debut in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of "Macbeth," that was aired on Channel Four television in the UK. He did several performances after that, including a Victorian waif in Jonathon Meade's "The Victorians," on BBC-2, as well as a role in a pantomine version of "Cinderella" at the St. George's Theatre.

A year later, Skandar won the role of 8-year-old Enzo Ferrari in Carlo Carlei's "Ferrari". When he was 12, Skandar auditioned for his part as Edmund Pevensie in Andrew Adamson's remake of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," which was released to its eager fans in December of 2005. Skandar will also appear in the movie's sequel, "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," which is scheduled to begin filming this Autumn. As if all that amazing stuff weren't enough, Skandar also plays the flute and the cornet, and studies Tae Kwon Do (Green Belt). He can ride a horse, obviously is a great actor, and is extremely funny. His name means Alekander in Turkish. Skandar Keynes is also the incredibly hot descendant of the 19th Century naturalist Charles Darwin.

by Andrea

Filmography

In order from earliest (scroll down) to latest (scrollup; right below this)

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian pre-production
Edmund Pevensie..............2007

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe
Edmund Pevensie...............2005

Duemila Productions/Victory biopic 'Ferarri'
young Enzo Ferarri.................2001

Pantomime adaption of 'Cinderella'
Character: Unkown.............St. George's Theatre

Jonathan Meade's docudrama 'The Victorians'
Victorian Waif.................. BBC2

Enrolled in the Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington (where his sister also studied acting)

Royal Shakespeare Company production of 'Macbeth'
Britain's Channel 4 TV RSC.......................age 9 (probably 2000)

By Hannah and Steph

Hopefully more to come!! :D

Facts

Made up the line "I can't go on the train by myself", claiming after to have mad skills!:D
- the necklace that Skandar always wears was given to him by Tilda in New Zealand. It's a greenstone and has engravings that mean strength and overcoming life's difficulties and challenges
-his favourite bands are Queen, Outkast, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but he also loves soundtracks
- his favourite colour is blue
- he has conversations with three fangirls who go to his house a lot (Sofia squints in anger and rage)
- he likes having siblings (his sister) because when you're older then you have someone besides just yourself
- he had his braces for about a year, and MIGHT get them off next week
- he prefers just plain grey on his braces because the colours attract more attention to them
- he doodles and writes notes on his hand
- he owns three pairs of Converse: black (spray painted blue), new black ones, and red. He also owns a pair of fake Converse. He lost his real trainers, so he wears the fake ones now and he rarely ever wears the red Converse.
- he uses Body Shop soap
- he thinks cheese is cool, and his favourite types are blue, Brie, cheddar, and stilton. He also likes saying cheese after people's names
- he really likes Smarties, especially orange ones
- he tried shaving once, but cut off half his lip and damaged his skin. It was sore for about 5 days.
- he prefers boxers to briefs
- if he's at a sleepover, he calculates how much sleep he's going to have, or just thinks about generally boring things
- he has two cats (around a year old), one's name is Puss, the other's name is Boots
- he uses Citrus Shine shampoo
- he uses Lynx, but his friends come and spray it all around his room. He then gets a lecture and it always gets used up
- he used to have a myspace, but people wouldn't leave him alone so he stopped
- someone else deals with fangirls for him - sometimes his friends tell them that it isn't really him
- at the moment, his love-life is non existant, but things could change
- he doesn't hate hugs (yay!), he just doesn't like being hugged by Will (because he suffocates you by squeezing really hard), Anna (because she's patronising), Georgie (because she always wants hugs), or Andrew (because his hair gets in the way)
- he doesn't have any stuffed animals in his room
- his favourite T.V. shows are Family Guy (he has all the series on DVD) and Scrubs (he and his friends quote it a lot).
- his ideal place to live would be somewhere in the Pacific Ocean or the South of France or Spain - somewhere hot and by a beach
- his celebrity crush is Jessica Alba, but he doesn't obsess over celebreties like some of his friends
- he is an Athiest
- being in Narnia, a Christian film, didn't affect him
- His favourite meals are Nandos, Chinese food, Pizza, Indian food, and Fish and Chips
- his advice for pranking people is to sneak up behind people and attack them and to have as much fun with paint in Art as you can, but don't spread it on other people's work -Because his voice changed so much during filming of Narnia: LWW, his sister had to voice Edmund near the end (more info on this will be in the Audio Commentary of the film [DVD])
-lives one block away from Anna
-Likes movies with blood and gore, says "Saving Private Ryan was heaven"
- Grew 6 and 1/2 inches during filming, had armour adjusted weekly
- can ride a horse bareback
- ate fake glass on set once because Will told him it was sugar, which he was banned from
- can crack neck, bend finger all the way back, do weird things with tongue
- favourite actress - Judy Dench
- got ladies underwear for his b-day
- did own stunts
- agency - Hamilton Hodell
- was teased that he had a crush on Tilda - its not true
- read Narnia books series twice.
- last Pevensie kid to be cast
- people thought he'd be quiet at first
- said, "Hey everybody!" every time he entered a room on set of Narnia
- said playing Ed was a natural fit
- in the scene where Jim, the professor, throws a ball to Peter, Jim hit Skandar in the face with the ball
- before read-through he played pool and split his pants at the back
- memorized script in 3 days, does that for every part he tries out for
- every day he'd sneak up on and poke producer Phil Steur
- voice changed at end of filming
- every morning a.d. KC Hodenfield would shout "Skandar!" to tell him to stop goofing off. Skandar'd say, "I didn't do anything!"
- Anna's Making-Of shows him 'strangling' Georgie. She yelled "Skandar!", he said "It wasn't me! I didn't do anything!"
- favourite prank on set was one played on him in the dancing scene that got deleted - his partner had adult moves like Pelvic thrusts, chest bumps. He found out that it was a joke when he saw the crew laughing
- weak spot - if people tickle him on the stomach
- his horse had an attitude problem. once it charged at Will, once it almost ran off a cliff with him on it
- didn't like filming cricket scene because he had to pretend he was bad. Will bowled the ball wide so Skandar couldn't hit it, Andrew doubted he could play cricket and told him to pretend to hit the ball. Skandar got angry, hit the ball hard and broke lighting.
- aces in school (is math wiz. Narnia crew joked on making him their acountant)
- Tilda took him to play mini-golf, whacked ball into sign that said 'This is not a driving range' on his first hit
- Pippa found him when he was trying out for Nanny McPhee
- parents were in Tokyo during auditions and he wasn't allowed to go to audtitions. He went anyway.
- favourite movies are Zoolander and Starsky and Hutch
- thinks Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller make great team
- goes to the London City School for Boys
- one day he got a digital camera and started taking pictures in Phil Stuer's face. Phil grabbed the camera, snapped him with it, and wrestled him to the ground
- got hit with the ball many times when filming cricket scene
- wouldn't sit still during costume fitting
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