Tamsin Egerton (born 26 November 1988) is an English actress and model
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 television series Camelot.Egerton began her acting career at 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 attended Ditcham Park School near Petersfield in
Hampshire, where she says she was bullied.She added that she often
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, Egerton pursued acting rather than going to sixth
form and then university, saying, "At drama school, they like to take
you apart and rebuild you but I don't want to change now."
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 television series Camelot.Egerton began her acting career at 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 attended Ditcham Park School near Petersfield in
Hampshire, where she says she was bullied.She added that she often
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, Egerton pursued acting rather than going to sixth
form and then university, saying, "At drama school, they like to take
you apart and rebuild you but I don't want to change now."
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