Tamsin Egerton
British
Actress
2001–present
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Early life[edit]
Tamsin Egerton was born on 26 November 1988 in Surrey, England, to Michael Dick and his wife Nicola Egerton.[3] Her father is a businessman.[4] She began her acting career at age 6, following her older sister Sophia, in a local youth theatre.[1] Egerton attended the independent Ditcham Park School in Hampshire.[1]
Career[edit]
In 2001, Egerton began acting professionally when she played Mary Lennox in a Royal Shakespeare Company musical production of The Secret Garden,[5] and appeared as young Morgaine in the television miniseries The Mists of Avalon.[6] She soon chose to shorten her surname to Egerton to improve her career prospects.[1] The following year she played Princess Elenora in the children's television series Sir Gadabout: The Worst Knight in the Land.[3]
Egerton's film debut was as Holly Goodfellow, a precocious vicar's daughter in the black comedy Keeping Mum (2005).,[7] where she performed a nude scene. Her breakthrough role was as Chelsea, a member of a posh clique in St. Trinian's (2007).[1] She reprised the role in its sequel St Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold in 2009.[3] Two years later, she starred in Chalet Girl with Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, and Bill Nighy.[8] In the same year she portrayed Guinevere in the historical fantasy drama series Camelot.[9] In 2013, Egerton appeared in Michael Winterbottom's biopic The Look of Love which was based on the life of strip-club owner Paul Raymond.[10]
Personal life[edit]
Egerton has been in a long-term relationship with American actor Josh Hartnett, first announced in 2012.[11] They have a daughter (born 2015), a second child (born 2017), and a third child (born 2019).[12] In March 2022, Hartnett revealed he and Egerton had married in November 2021.[13] They reside in Surrey.[14] In 2024, Hartnett confirmed that he and his wife have welcomed a fourth child.[15]