Anna Popplewell

Anna Popplewell is the actress that portrayed Susan Pevensie in the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and Wardrobe, its sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, which was released in 2008, and in the December 2010 film The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, in which she made a cameo appearance.

Personal life
Anna Katherine Popplewell, is the oldest of three children, is the daughter of the High Court judge Andrew Popplewell and Debra Lomas, a dermatologist who studied at Newnham College Cambridge. She was born in London. Her siblings are actress Lulu Popplewell, who starred as Daisy in Love Actually, and Freddie Popplewell, who starred as Michael Darling in the film Peter Pan. Her paternal grandfather, Sir Oliver Popplewell, is a former judge, and her uncle is former cricketer Nigel Popplewell.

She attended North London Collegiate School, and was Head Girl in 2006–07.

She was admitted to Oxford University in 2007, where she studied English Language and Literature at Magdalen College.

She has been married to actor Sam Caird, since 2016.

Career
Popplewell began acting at the age of six. Her acting career includes: - Frenchman's Creek, Mansfield Park, The Little Vampire and The Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Her first major role was in the film The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

She has a phobia of mice, which required a double to do part of her scene at the Stone Table in the film. She reprised her role in the sequel, Prince Caspian. The movie opened in theatres on the 16th May 2008.

After the film, she took almost a two year break from acting so that she could study at university. She did, however, appear in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which was released in December 2010, but in a minor cameo role.

She was confirmed as Sophie in the 2011 film Hanna, but she was replaced with Jessica Barden.

Popplewell appeared in the films Passengers and Payback Season as a nurse and 'Izzy' respectively.

In 2013, she joined the cast of Reign as Lady Lola who is a lady-in-waiting to Mary, Queen of Scotts. Popplewell exited the series in 2016.

In 2017, she portrayed the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, in the short film The Last Birthday.

In 2019, she portrayed Frankie in the movie Fairytale of New York. In this same year, she also participated in the television series You Are Here, where she played Tanya.