About Tamsin Egerton: Tamsin Olivia Egerton 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.
Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.
I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.
When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunc...
My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.
Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.
I'm not a flying fan. I can't bear it.
I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
