Background
Egerton was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
Egerton was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
Egerton attended Ditcham Park School near Petersfield in Hampshire, where she says she was bullied.
A year later, she appeared in a Royal Shakespeare Company musical production of The Secret Garden, playing Mary. 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 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." She had a brief job as a babysitter for three children.
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 television children"s series Sir Gadabout: The Worst Knight in the Land. In 2001, she starred as the "young" Morgaine in the television miniseries The Mists of Avalon.
She has also appeared on stage – in the Royal Society of Chemistry "s musical version of The Secret Garden.
In 2009, Egerton appeared in the Street Trinian"s sequel, Street Trinian"s II: The Legend of Fritton"s Gold. In 2011, she appeared in Chalet Girl alongside Felicity Jones, Editor Westwick and Bill Nighy, playing Georgie. In her second Arthurian role, Egerton plays Guinevere in the 2011 United States Starz adaptation of the Arthurian legend, Camelot, also starring Joseph Fiennes, Eva Green and Jamie Campbell Bower.