At the age of eight Anna decided that she and her younger sister Lulu, 17, and brother Fred, 13 – who have had parts in such movies as Love Actually and Peter Pan – would pool their earnings. ‘And we kept it going. Up to the age of 18, any of us who got any work divided it up because it prevented sibling rivalry,’ she explains.
Besides acting, Anna has done work experience for medicine, law and advertising
Is very studious and got 10 A*’s on her mock GSCE’s (like a perfect SAT), as well as 3 A’s for her A-levels.
Goal was to go to University to read and study English literature, now attends Oxford to read English and takes part in lots of student drama.
Can cry on que
Admits she cannot ’sing for toffee’
Despite her Narnia earnings, Anna can’t resist a bargain on Ebay!
Was close to getting the part of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, but she does not have any regrets. She has met Emma Watson breifly a couple of times and says she’s ” very sweet”. Also auditioned for Wendy in Peter Pan (2003).
Accidentally fell into acting when she was four, drama was the only summer course available for her age group, and she loved it!
If Anna had a magical wardrobe she would go to Holkham Beach in Norfolk, where her grandparents have a cottage
Read the Narnia books when she was seven years old, and reread them at 14 while auditioning for LWW
Was worried about not keeping up with the boys during the action sequences for Prince Caspian, so secretly had three times as many the horse riding lessons, so that when she’d turned up they’d be wowed!
Has a phobia of mice and needed a double to film the Stone Table scenes with mice
She auditioned 18 months before she was chosen for Susan Pevensie
The funnest scene in LWW for her to film was arriving at the Beaver’s Lodge because it was good to do a funny scene after so many sad/anxty ones
* spoilers* The most intense scene was the death of Aslan because it was so draining emotionally
Loves traveling, and while filming Narnia got to go to New Zealand, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovenia. She has also travelled to Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Greece and France
When her parents left NZ, she took charge of household bills and gave herself a budget
Skander Keynes (Edmund Pevensie) recalls seeing Anna fishing out her homework in the most unlikely places – including airport lounges, in order to complete the minimum two hour a day schooling policy
William Mosely (Peter Pevensie) says Anna is his best friend and he is naturally protective and brotherly towards her – they are not a couple!
She got Georgie Henley (Lucy Pevensie) to start crying during the Stone Table scene by saying “you would cry for your sister, you would cry for others, why won’t you cry for ME?!” for ten minutes, and then screaming “I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU SO MUCH!”
