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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) with Scarlett Johansson. In 2001 she appeared as Victoria in the BBC serial Love in a Cold Climate.
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 has a phobia of mice, which required a double to do part of her scene at the Stone Table in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.^[4] She reprised her role in the sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, in which she acted with William Moseley, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley and Ben Barnes. The movie opened in theatres 16 May 2008. She also made a cameo appearance in the third Narnia film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, despite her character's absence in the book on which it is based.
She was awarded the Cuppers Prize in 2007 for Best Supporting Actress in a student production of Five Kinds of Silence. In December 2007, she played Lady Macbeth in a student production of Macbeth at the OFS Studio in Oxford. In 2008 she performed as the character Wendla in the controversial play Spring Awakening.^[5]

Anna Popplewell

ANNA POPPLEWELL returns to the land of Narnia as older sister Susan, this time showing a softer, more emotional side (unlike her pragmatic persona in the previous adventure). In the midst of the forming battle, she finds herself falling for the young, handsome Prince Caspian. The film represents the teenage Susan's final appearance in the series.

Anna made her professional acting debut in the 1998 television adaptation of du Maurier's novel, “Frenchman's Creek.” She has appeared in such other feature films as “The Little Vampire,” “Me Without You,” and “Mansfield Park.” Her television roles include “Dirty Tricks” and the BBC costume dramas “Love in A Cold Climate” and "Daniel Deronda." Prior to her role in “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” the 19- year-old beauty appeared as Vermeer's eldest daughter in Peter Webber's globallyacclaimed drama, “Girl with A Pearl Earring.”

Born and raised in London (the daughter of a barrister father and doctor mother), she is the eldest of three siblings, all of whom have attended .Allsorts', a children's drama class. Her sister Lulu appeared in Richard Curtis' “Love, Actually,” and her brother Freddie was Michael Darling in PJ Hogan's 2003 film, “Peter Pan.” Following her work on "Prince Caspian" Anna began her studies in English Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, where author Lewis spent much of his academic career.