- Born
- Birth nameTamzin Claire Merchant
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Tamzin Merchant is a British born actress, writer and director. She grew up in Dubai and was cast in her first professional role as Georgiana Darcy in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005). She attended The University of Cambridge to read Education Studies and continued to develop her career as an actor alongside her studies.
Merchant has starred in period dramas ranging from the Tudor period (The Tudors (2007)) right through to the 1940s (Murder on the Home Front (2013)) and in many contemporary productions. She also appears as Imogen Spurnrose in Amazon's Carnival Row (2019).
She has written and directed four short films, all of which have picked up awards on the indie festival circuit.
- IMDb mini biography by: anon
- Was originally cast in the role of "Daenerys Targaryen" in Game of Thrones (2011) and filmed the pilot episode but asked to be released from her contract after the pilot shoot. The scenes were re-shot with Emilia Clarke.
- Appears on the cover of Belle & Sebastian's album, "Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance" (2015).
- Attended Homerton College, Cambridge. Graduated with a 1st Class degree in Education Studies.
- Appeared on the video for Groove Armada's "Song 4 Mutya".
- I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
- The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
- When I directed my first short - American Virgin (2015) - I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.
- People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
- My favourite colour is red, but I also like jewel tones and monochrome, while my preferred shapes include A-line skirts and skinny trousers.
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