Anna Scher Theatre School
Skandar Keynes went to which school from 2000 to 2005?
Skandar Keynes Alexander Amin Caspar 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 : , , and , which was released on 10 December 2010 . Early life . Keynes was born in Camden , London on September 5 , 1991 . His mother , Zelfa Hourani , is Lebanese ; and his father , Randal Keynes , is a British author . He has an older sister , Soumaya ( born July 31 , 1989 ) , a journalist who has appeared in various productions for BBC Radio 4 , and a former economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies . Ancestry . On his fathers 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 . On his mothers side , Keynes is of Lebanese , Persian and Turkish descent . His maternal grandfather was Lebanese writer Cecil Fadlo Hourani , who was an advisor to the late Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba . The Hourani family were immigrants to Manchester from Marjeyoun in southern Lebanon . Cecils two brothers were Albert Hourani , a historian of the Middle East , and George Hourani , philosopher , historian , and classicist . His maternal grandmother , Furugh Afnan , was the great-granddaughter of Baháulláh , founder of the Baháʼí Faith , making Skandar a great-great-great-grandson of Bahaullah . The nickname Skandar is Proto-Iranian for the Greek name Alexander , or is short for Iskandar , an Arabic variant ) . Lebanese nationality law states that citizenship is passed on patrilineally , so Keynes is legally a foreigner in the country he considers his second home . Career . Keynes auditioned for the role of Edmund Pevensie in at the same time as he auditioned for the role of Simon Brown in Nanny McPhee , winning the former while losing the latter to Thomas Sangster . His voice changed , due to puberty , during the filming of The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe , so the director used his sister Soumaya to voice some of his lines in the movie . He reprised his role as Edmund in , released 16 May 2008 . Keynes said he enjoyed the action-oriented stuntwork in the film but bruised his heel during a stunt with a horse . When he later had to run in the same scene , he did so while on pain medication and worried it was noticeable . He starred again as Edmund in , the third installment of The Chronicles of Narnia film series . Filming began in July 2009 , and finished in December of the same year . The film was released on 10 December 2010 in Britain and the U.S . In preparation for this film , Keynes studied to earn his Professional Association of Diving Instructors license for underwater scenes . Keynes contributed his voice in 2014 to the audio project , In Freedoms Cause as Sir Allan Kerr , which would be the final project of his official acting career . In 2016 , Keynes announced that he is no longer pursuing a career in acting and was now a parliamentary adviser to Crispin Blunt , MP . Education . Keynes attended the Anna Scher Theatre School from 2000 to 2005 , having attended Thornhill Primary School from 1996 to 2002 . He attended the all-boys City of London School from 2005 . There he wrote as a film critic for the review section of The Citizen , the City of London School weekly school newspaper . He sat his GCSEs in May and June 2008 and started Sixth Form and his first year of his A-level studies the following September . He studied biology , chemistry , maths , further maths and history at A-level . In October 2010 , he began his degree in Arabic and Middle Eastern History at Pembroke College , Cambridge . Keynes was listed as one of Business Insider 16 Incredibly Impressive Students At Cambridge University . Keynes received his degree in Middle Eastern Studies in 2014 . Personal life . Keynes and his family have visited Marjeyoun since he was a child . Weve been coming every year to Lebanon and visiting Marjeyoun despite the political situation . I was here in 1996 during Operation Grapes of Wrath . I was four at the time and I had no concept that it was war , Keynes told a reporter . I remember when the gravity of the situation dawned on me . It was during the 2006 July war , I was 14 then.. . but it didnt really shake my view of Lebanon as effectively a second home , a place where I come to and I have family . Keynes explains that he is cognisant of the political situation :