Peter Pevensie | |
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Narnia character | |
Race | Human |
Nation | England |
Gender | Male |
Title |
High King Peter the Magnificent Emperor of the Lone Islands Lord of Cair Paravel Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Lion Sir Peter Wolf's-Bane |
Birthplace | Finchley, England, Earth |
Family | |
Parents | Mr and Mrs Pevensie |
Siblings | Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie |
Family | Eustace Scrubb (cousin) |
Major character in | |
Portrayals in adaptations | |
1988 BBC miniseries: Richard Dempsey (younger), Christopher Bramwell (older) | |
2005 Walden/Disney film: William Moseley (younger), Noah Huntley (older) | |
2008 Walden/Disney film: William Moseley | |
2010 Walden/Fox film: William Moseley |
Peter Pevensie is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series. Peter appears in three of the seven books; as a child and a principal character in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, and as an adult in The Last Battle. He is only mentioned in The Horse and His Boy in which he is away on the northern frontier fighting giants and in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in which he is studying under the tutelage of Professor Kirke.
In Disney's live-action films, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, Peter is portrayed by English actor William Moseley. Actor Noah Huntley portrays an older Peter at the end of the first film.
Peter is the eldest of the four Pevensie children and shares his adventures in Narnia with his sisters Susan and Lucy and with his brother Edmund.
Peter's reign in Narnia was a Tetrarchy (Greek: "leadership of four"), and as High King Peter the Magnificent, he had supreme authority over all subsequent Narnian monarchs. Peter is illustrated by Pauline Baynes in the original novels with dark hair, but there are no specific descriptions of his hair or eye colour or complexion by Lewis.