Skandar Keynes

At 33 years old, Skandar Keynes has this physical status:

Skandar Keynes, an English political advisor and former actor, is a writer and actor.

Edmund Pevensie, the actor who appeared in all three instalments, The Lion, the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and most recently The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which was announced on December 10th, 2010.

Early life

Zelfa Hourani, Lebanese, and Randal Keynes, his father, are British writers. Soumaya, a journalist and economist who is now the UK economics editor at The Economist magazine, has an older sister. They grew up in Islington, London.

Keynes, the nephew of two Cambridge professors, philosopher Simon Keynes, and neuroscientist Roger Keynes, the cousin of Catholic writer and apologist Laura Keynes, is of English descent, and economist John Maynard Keynes was of English descent. Naturalist Charles Darwin was his great-great-grandfather. Baroness Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian and Hester Adrian were two of Keynes' great-grandparents, according to Nobel Laureate Edgar Adrian.

Keynes' father is of Lebanese and distant Persian and Turkish descent. Cecil Fadlo Hourani, a Lebanese writer who served as an advisor to Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, was his maternal grandfather. The Hourani family immigrated to Manchester from Marjeyoun, southern Lebanon, from Marjeyoun. Albert Hourani, a Middle East historian, and George Hourani, a scholar, historian, and Classicist, were among Cecil's two brothers. According to Lebanese nationality law, citizenship is granted primarily, so Keynes is legally a foreigner in the country where he claims to be the second home.

Education

Keynes went to Thornhill Primary School after attending Anna Scher Theater School. He then attended City of London School, where he was given the Merit Prize in the 2006 European Kangaroo competition, the Geoffrey Clark Prize for Services to Drama (2008), and The Bennet Brough Prize for Chemistry (2010). He obtained an A* and A-level qualification in biology, chemistry, mathematics, further mathematics, and history in spring 2010.

Keynes earned his degree in Arabic, Persian, and Middle Eastern History at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in October 2010. He has consistently achieved first-class honors. In first year, he was named with the Marie Shamma Frost Prize in Oriental Studies (Arabic) and the College Scholarship; in second year, he was named member of the Faculty Board of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; and in senior year, he was named winner of the EG Browne Prize in Oriental Studies. He spent his third year in Lebanon to perfect his colloquial Arabic and wrote about his experiences on a weekly column in The Tab. His dissertation was a comparison of the teaching of history in Iran and Saudi Arabia, which required him to translate school textbooks from both countries. In June 2014, Keynes, who received first place in all three Parts of the Tripos, received a Triple First Class Honours BA degree in Middle Eastern Studies (Arabic and Persian). He was named as one of Business Insider's "16 Incredibly Impressive Students At Cambridge University."

Personal life

Keynes plays the guitar, flute, and cork. In 2006, he won a 1500-meter long race in 2006 and then ran 42 kilometers at the 2012 Beirut Marathon in aid of Prosecutors. He earlier held a green belt in Taekwondo and competed in extreme sports like bungee jumping in New Zealand at the Nevis Bungy, Sky Tower, Ledge Bungy, Shotover Canyon Swing, and from a jet. He plays cricket and football and is a fan of Arsenal Football Club. He was a Rugby varsity player and played football with Freddie Highmore at Cambridge.

Keynes supports conservation initiatives. He tracked the Grey Wolf down in the Jura Mountains in Switzerland as part of his work shadowing the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). On Wild Talk Radio Podcast, Jean-Marc Landry, a wolf expert and deputy head, is included in his interview. He contributed to English Heritage by contributing to the Heritage Learning Journal's Darwin issue in March 2009 (Issue 40). He also helped connect2earth, a worldwide community run by the World Wide Fund for Nature. He joined his father in the Galapagos Tortoise Project by promoting Sebastian, one of the country's biggest tortoises conserved by the archipelago's national park.

Despite the political turmoil surrounding Marjeyoun, Lebanon, Keynes and his family have been going to this city yearly. "I was here in 1996 during Operation Grapes of Wrath." "I was four years old at the time and had no idea that it was war," Keynes told a reporter. "I remember when the severity of the situation dawned on me." I was 14 years old when it occurred in 2006-07, but it didn't change my opinion of Lebanon as essentially a second home, a place where I go to and I have family." "I know that in part of the law that a mother's right to her children is connected with the Palestinian issue." I would like to see the law changed and the government make it Lebanese. "I arrive at the airport, I would like to have a Lebanese passport and go to my [family's] house without having to get permission."

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Career

Skandar Keynes' acting career began when he was 9 years old and appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth (2001) for British television. In the BBC2 television series Queen Victoria Died in 1901, it was followed by a supporting role for a Victorian waif. Is Still Alive Today (2001). In the biopic film Ferrari (2003), directed by Carlo Carlei, depicting Ferrari's ascension from a profitable racer to one of the country's most popular entrepreneurs of all time, his first notable film role was at the age of ten.

Keynes made international fame in the role of Edmund Pevensie in the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, directed by Andrew Adamson. It was launched in December 2005 in New Zealand and a few in Central Europe, grossing more than $745 million worldwide. Unlike others who had to endure an 18-month casting process, he was cast within weeks. Keynes was selected to play Edmund, the role's first appearance is especially dramatic because his character is integral to themes of betrayal, forgiveness, and redemption. He acted out his own elaborate stunts, including hopping into the ditch, sword combat, and horse riding. In the video game The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, he also spoke about his character. Keynes was given the CAMIE Award in 2006 (Character and Morality in Entertainment) for his performance.

He reprised his role as Edmund in Prince Caspian, directed by Andrew Adamson and launched in May 2008 to generally favorable feedback, grossing $419.7 million worldwide. Within seven months of shooting, he loved the action-oriented stuntwork, touring New Zealand, Prague, Slovenia, Poland, and the Czech Republic. At the 30th Young Artist Awards, he was nominated for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor and Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Ensemble Cast. Keynes also appeared in the video game The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Edmund was back as Edmund in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Michael Apted's third installment of The Chronicles of Narnia, directed by Michael Apted, and released in Australia in December 2010. The Commonwealth Party is a non-profit organisation that distributes money around the world. It earned $415.7 million worldwide. Keynes studied to obtain his Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PAD) license for submerged scenes in preparation. At the 32nd Young Artist Awards in 2011, the cast was nominated for Best Performance in a Feature Film.

Keynes was cast in Heirloom Audio Production's award-winning audio adventure In Freedom's Cause, a historical novel by G.A., in May 2014. Henty is a film that explains how William Wallace, the 14th-century Scottish hero who was prominently portrayed by Mel Gibson in Braveheart, was a strong man of God. In its promotional short film, Keynes appeared as himself. The drama was released in November last year, winning five of the six categories — the Oscar equivalent of voice acting — at the 2015 Voice Arts Awards — Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction, Outstanding Audio Engineering, and Audiobook Narration – History. Keynes resigned from acting in January 2016.

Keynes completed a three-month internship at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in January 2015. During his stay in Amman, Jordan, he contributed to the development and writing of Living in the Shadows, a report that discovered signs of a rapid decline in the living conditions of Syrian refugees in Jordan as the Syrian conflict approached its fifth year. The study is based on findings from home visits covering almost 150,000 Syrian refugees who live outside of camps in Jordan. It was widely distributed in the media and cited by foreign policy think tanks as a result of its publication on January 14, 2015.

Keynes served as a legislative advisor to Crispin Blunt, a British Conservative MP and former Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee (2015-2017), until January 2018. On his visit to Beirut in November 2015, he joined the committee on an inquiry into the UK's involvement in the war against the ISIL. He attended the European Parliament forum in Brussels in February 2016, with committee members Daniel Kawczynski and Stephen Gethins, and addressed the forthcoming NATO summit in Warsaw. He participated in the IISS Manama Dialogue in Bahrain in December last year and raised a question about the practical ways by which they could move forward in constructive dialogue with Russia forwards who had identified shared interests in fighting extremism and ending bloodshed in Syria, considering their "disagreements on the causes, solutions, and target end states of these two problems." He traveled to Qatar in February 2017 to speak with ministers and officials, tour sites in preparation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and address bilateral relations and regional crises. From 2016 to 2017, he accompanied Blunt on diplomatic tours to Cairo, Tunisia, Kurdistan, and Baghdad. Keynes has been working as a political advisor since then.

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