Name: Anna Popplewell
Birth Name: Anna Katherine Popplewell
Height: 5' 3½
Sex: F
Nationality: English
Birth Date: December 16, 1988
Birth Place: London, England, UK
Profession: actress
Education: North London Collegiate School
Allsorts Drama for Children (attending drama classes)
Father: Andrew Popplewell (a barrister)
Mother: Deborah Lomas (an immunologist)
Sister: Laura Francesca Popplewell (aka. Lulu Popplewell, actress; born on January 15, 1991)
Brother: Freddie Popplewell (actor; born in November 1994)
Grand Father: Sir Oliver Popplewell (was a former High Court judge; paternal grandfather)
Claim to fame: her role as Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series
Popplewell began acting at the age of six, taking classes at the Allsorts Drama School. She began acting professionally in the TV production Frenchman's Creek in 1998. She made her film debut in 1999 in the film Mansfield Park and has since appeared in supporting roles in films like The Little Vampire (2000) and Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003).
Her first major role was in the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) where she played Susan Pevensie. She reprised her role in the sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, which opened in theatres May 16, 2008.
She is currently studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford and was awarded the Cuppers Prize in 2007, for Best Supporting Actress, in the student production Five Kinds of Silence. In December 2007, she acted as Lady Macbeth in a student production of Macbeth at the Old Fire Station Theatre. From the 28-31 May 2008, Popplewell will star as Wendla Bergman in the once banned play, Spring Awakening, at the Oxford Playhouse.
Birth Name: Anna Katherine Popplewell
Height: 5' 3½
Sex: F
Nationality: English
Birth Date: December 16, 1988
Birth Place: London, England, UK
Profession: actress
Education: North London Collegiate School
Allsorts Drama for Children (attending drama classes)
Father: Andrew Popplewell (a barrister)
Mother: Deborah Lomas (an immunologist)
Sister: Laura Francesca Popplewell (aka. Lulu Popplewell, actress; born on January 15, 1991)
Brother: Freddie Popplewell (actor; born in November 1994)
Grand Father: Sir Oliver Popplewell (was a former High Court judge; paternal grandfather)
Claim to fame: her role as Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series
Popplewell began acting at the age of six, taking classes at the Allsorts Drama School. She began acting professionally in the TV production Frenchman's Creek in 1998. She made her film debut in 1999 in the film Mansfield Park and has since appeared in supporting roles in films like The Little Vampire (2000) and Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003).
Her first major role was in the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) where she played Susan Pevensie. She reprised her role in the sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, which opened in theatres May 16, 2008.
She is currently studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford and was awarded the Cuppers Prize in 2007, for Best Supporting Actress, in the student production Five Kinds of Silence. In December 2007, she acted as Lady Macbeth in a student production of Macbeth at the Old Fire Station Theatre. From the 28-31 May 2008, Popplewell will star as Wendla Bergman in the once banned play, Spring Awakening, at the Oxford Playhouse.
