CHLOE MAGAZINE
During her high school years her dream of
Hollywood would get a little bit closer, if only
by proximity; her father was transferred to
Austin, Texas from the UK. “I went from an
all-girl Catholic private school in Windsor
to public school in Texas; it was like my own
little Dawson’s Creek,” she explains with a
chuckle. At 19 she attended theatre school in
Pennsylvania for six months before switching
to complete a year in New York. While she was
learning a lot, she made the bold leap to quit
school, and like so many before her, chased her
dreams to sunny Los Angeles noting that, “I
knew being on set would be the best
education for me.”
Landing in LA she found herself alone and
with no connections. She recounts that there
were a couple of years where she was doing
the “struggling waitress thing” while taking
classes, participating in workshops and meeting
with casting directors. “I was really trying to
find my own way and find the right people to
represent me.” After signing with her manager
through her agent, Camilla started doing guest
starring roles. Then came the call that would
change her life. She auditioned for the Lifetime
movie Will and Kate, a lighthearted conceptualization of the love story between Prince
William and Kate Middleton. “When I got
the role I thought: oh this is going to be a fun
lifetime film,” she notes, not realizing that in
no time life was going to start to imitate art.