Alexander Amin Caspar "Skandar" Keynes (born 5 September 1991) [a] is an English political adviser and former actor. Best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series, he appeared in all three installments: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
His mother, Zelfa Hourani, is Lebanese; and his father, Randal Keynes, is a British author. He has an older sister, Soumaya, a journalist and economist, who is currently the Britain economics editor at The Economist magazine. They grew up in Islington, London.
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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