Name : Anna Katherine Popplewell
Birthday : December 16, 1988 (21 years)
Residence : London & Oxford
Hair Colour : D. Brown
Eye Colour : L. Blue
Height : 5’3 and a half (the half is very important, she notes)!
Education : Studies literature at Magdalene, Oxford University
Graduate of North London Collegiate, 13th year as head girl
Religious Views : Attends St. Bride’s Church – Born a church of England Christian but is fairly liberal and believes “different bits and pieces”
Parents : Deborah (immunologist) and Andrew (barrister)
FAVORITES
§ Colour: Blue
§ Director: Ingrid bergman (Casablanca)
§ Movie: The Wizard of Oz
§ Music: Regina Spektor, Coldplay, Kaiser Chiefs, Gavin DeGraw
§ Play: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
§ Book: Alice in Exile by Piers Paul Read, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
§ Actors: Johnny Depp, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Hopkins
§ Actresses: Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Judi Dench
§ Screen Crushes: Jake Gyllenhal
§ Shops: “Everywhere!” – Portabello Market, the GAP, Topshop, Selfridges…
§ Sport: Skiing, Lacrosse, Horsesback riding, Swimming
§ Animal: Horse, donkey
§ Musical Instrument: Cello
§ Food: Sushi
§ Service: Working with children in Art and Drama
Trivia:
1. Anna started acting as a fluke, drama being the only program available for her age. She loved it, and landed a talent.
2. Anna marveled in her debut as a bratty “devil” child in the BBC Drama Frenchmen’s creek.
3. Anna does not have a fan e-mail address or social networking site.
4. 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.
5. When her parents left NZ, Anna took charge of household bills and gave herself a budget.
6. The funnest scene in LWW for Anna to film was arriving at the Beaver’s Lodge because it was good to do a funny scene after so many sad/anxty ones.
7. Anna 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!
8. Anna accidentally fell into acting when she was four, drama was the only summer course available for her age group, and she loved it!
9. 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.
10. Despite her Narnia earnings, Anna can’t resist a bargain on Ebay!
11. Modeled in Elliot J. Frieze show at Fashion Week season S/S 2011.
12. Anna Popplewell always plays Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This is her Favourite Game.
13. Anna Popplewell can playing Piano and Guitar.
14. She is Hate with FAKE ACCOUNT.
15. Anna Popplewell favourite Character in Narnia is Aslan, Mr.Beaver and Mrs. Beaver..
16. Anna Popplewell is very good returning fan mail, but you must include a self addressed envelope to get a response!!
17. Anna Popplewell loves reading books, She's a Smart Girl in her school.
18. She's loves Fashion and she's Fashionable.
19. She's often going to London Fashion Week. She's an Icon.
20. Anna Popplewell's characteristic same with Susan Pevensie.
21. Anna Popplewell favourite song is The Call (soundtrack narnia 2).
22. Anna Popplewell and Georgie Henley often hang-out together.
23. Anna Popplewell can cry on que.
24. Actually, Anna Popplewell's voice is good. But she's shy if you want she to singing.
25. Anna Popplewell like Paris, especially in the night.
26. Anna Popplewell like plays with her Sister and her Brother.
27. Skandar Keynes close to the Anna Popplewell's family.
28. Anna like dancing and singing.
30. Anna Popplewell loves shopping around the world.
31. Performed her first screen kiss on THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN (2008).
32. Anna lives right around the corner of Skandar Keynes who played her younger brother Edmund in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
33. Her passions are shopping and acting.
34. Anna auditioned for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, almost two years before production began, and recieved several callbacks before finally landing the part as Susan Pevensie.
35. Anna begin acting at the age of six.
36. Acted alongside her sister in the mini-series "Love in a Cold Climate".
37. Anna had autidioned for the roles of Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and Wendy in Peter Pan.
38. Anna wants to study English Literature in University.
39. Anna read the Narnia books when she was seven years old, and reread them at 14 while auditioning for LWW.
40. Anna's best friends with Naria co-star William Moseley.
41. Anna 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.
42. Anna loves working with children in Art and Drama.
43. Anna was dating Wizzle, but they broke up because Wizzle know there kissing scenes between Anna and Ben at PC .
44. Anna's grandfather, The Honorary Sir Oliver Bury Popplewell, is a former High Court Judge .
45. Anna's two younger siblings are actors.
46. Anna failed her first driving test.
47. Anna has a phobia of mice and needed a double to film the Stone Table scenes with mice.
48. Anna scored 10 GCSEs.
49. Anna's a stright A's student.
50. Anna was the Head Girl of her school in her final year.
51. Anna admits she cannot ‘sing for toffee’
52. Anna was close to getting the part of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, but she does not have any egrets. She has met Emma Watson breifly a couple of times and says she’s ” very sweet”.
53. Anna also auditioned for Wendy in Peter Pan (2003), which led her brother to the role of Michael Darling.
54. If Anna had a magical wardrobe she would go to Holkham Beach in Norfolk, where her grandparents have a cottage.
55. The most intense scene was the death of Aslan because it was so draining emotionally.
56. William Mosely (Peter Pevensie) says Anna is his best friend and he is naturally protective and brotherly towards her – they are not a couple!
57. Anna 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!”
58. Anna has attended "Allsorts Drama" school since age 6.
59. Anna started taking drama lessons at age 4 because it was the only summer course available for her age.
60. Whilen shooting Narnia, when Anna was archery practice, there are oftenmissed and errors hat Anna made.