Tamsin Egerton Biography

Tamsin Olivia Egerton (born 26 November 1988) is an English actress and model best known for her roles as Chelsea Parker in the 2007 film St Trinian's, Holly Goodfellow in the 2005 film Keeping Mum and Guinevere in the 2011 TV series Camelot.

Career

Egerton started her acting career age six, following her older sister, Sophia, to a local youth theatre, saying; "The whole reason I'm acting now is because I wanted to be doing what my big sister was doing". A year later, she appeared in a Royal Shakespeare Company musical production of The Secret Garden, playing Mary.

Egerton's other film credits include Sarah in Driving Lessons (2006) alongside Rupert Grint and Flora in Knife Edge (2008). She was to appear as Katrina in Eragon, but the scenes which she featured in were removed from the final cut.

Egerton starred as Princess Elenora in the TV children's series Sir Gadabout: The Worst Knight in the Land. In 2001, she starred as the "young" Morgaine in the TV miniseries The Mists of Avalon. She has also appeared on stage " in the RSC's musical version of The Secret Garden.

In 2009, Egerton appeared in the St Trinian's sequel, St Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold.

In 2011, she appeared in Chalet Girl alongside Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick and Bill Nighy, playing Georgie.

In her second Arthurian role, Egerton plays Guinevere in the 2011 US Starz adaptation of the Arthurian legend, Camelot, also starring Joseph Fiennes, Eva Green and Jamie Campbell Bower.

Personal life

Egerton attended Ditcham Park School near Petersfield in Hampshire, where she says she was bullied. She also states she truanted, preferring to go to modelling shoots; "I played truant all the time. I was modelling so I'd go to shoots and call in sick." After finishing school at 16 with nine A-grade GCSEs, Egerton decided to pursue acting rather than going to university, saying, "At drama school, they like to take you apart and rebuild you but I don't want to change now." She had a brief job as a babysitter for three children. She previously shared a flat in Marylebone, Central London, with her St Trinians castmate Talulah Riley, whom she described as her "soulmate". She lived in Hampstead with theatre producer Jamie Hendry.

She has cited Takeshi Kitano as her favourite film director, and said, "I'd love Takeshi Kitano to put me in a martial arts film so I'd have an excuse to practise all the time".

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Director(s)	Note(s)
2005	Keeping Mum	Holly Goodfellow	Niall Johnson
2006	Driving Lessons	Sarah	Jeremy Brock
	Eragon	Katrina	Stefen Fangmeier	All of her scenes were cut from the completed film, but are shown on the special features of the DVD
2007	Earthquake	Zoë	Ben Fogg
	St Trinian's	Chelsea Parker	Oliver Parker / Barnaby Thompson
2008	Knife Edge	Flora	Anthony Hickox
2009	St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold	Chelsea Parker	Oliver Parker / Barnaby Thompson
	Huge	Clarisse	Ben Miller
	The Story of F***	Daisy	James Abadi
2010	4.3.2.1	Cassandra	Noel Clarke / Mark Davis
2011	Chalet Girl	Georgie	Phil Traill
2013	Singularity	Laura Fennel	Roland Joffé	Post-production
2013	Grand Piano		Eugenio Mira	Post-production
2013	Justin and the Knights of Valour	Lara	Manuel Sicilia	Post-production
2013	The Look of Love	Fiona Richmond	Michael Winterbottom
2014	Love, Rosie			Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale	Kate Dickens
	The Mists of Avalon	Young Morgaine
2002	Sir Gadabout: The Worst Knight in the Land	Princess Elenora
	Napoléon	Betsy Balcombe
2004	Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking	Miranda Helhoughton
2006	Mayo	Patti Feathers	episode 1, season 3
	Silent Witness	Hannah Duncan	episode 7, season 10 episode 8, season 10
2007	The Abbey	Tiffany
2008	Trial and Retribution	Imogen Buller-Turi	Trial & Retribution XX: Siren
2009	Octavia	Octavia Brennan
2010	Heston's Willy Wonka Feast	Herself
2010	Money	Butch Beausoleil
2011	Camelot	Guinevere