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- Birth nameDaphne Keen Fernández
- Height5′ 1″ (1.55 m)
- Dafne Keen Fernández is a British and Spanish actress who played the role of the mutant Laura Kinney / X-23 in Logan (2017) and Lyra in the HBO series His Dark Materials (2019).
She is the daughter of British actor Will Keen, and Spanish actress, theatre director and writer María Fernández Ache.
Keen made her acting debut in 2014 alongside her father with the television series The Refugees, where she played Ana "Ani" Cruz Oliver.
Keen starred in the 2017 film Logan as Laura, the mutant clone of Wolverine.
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- In 2016, she auditioned for the part of Lyra in His Dark Materials (2019). Although she had submitted her audition tape, she didn't get a response for a while. However, while she was on vacation in Puerto Rico in 2017, she was later asked to make one more take. But before she recorded it, she decided to go swimming, and she was stung in the face by a jellyfish. She recorded her second audition tape with a swollen face. Nevertheless, that situation didn't interfere with her getting the part.
- She got the scar on her forehead from playing around at the age of 4. She slipped and fell against a metal bed, tore her head open and passed out.
- She is the daughter of British actor Will Keen and Spanish actress, theatre director, and writer María Fernández Ache.
- A second cousin, once removed, of Jake Weber (her great-grandmother Priscilla was also Jake's grandmother. Priscilla was previously married to her great-grandfather Edward Curzon).
- Her favorite films include Singin' in the Rain (1952), Oklahoma! (1955), West Side Story (1961), Some Like It Hot (1959) Daddy's Home (2015), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Opening Night (1977) and In the Mood for Love (2000).
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