Swann later attended Cheltenham College for her A-Levels before a 3-year Acting Diploma at the Oxford School of Drama, graduating in 2005 when she landed her first screen leading role opposite Jesper Christanson as Alice in an Independent Feature Shaking Dreamland.
[1] In 2006, she landed a 3 part series, Dream Team 80s for Sky TV[2] before playing a semi-regular role for BBC Scotland's River City.
[3] In 2007, Swann landed leading role Sophie in Shine Productions Dis/connected[4] directed by Tom Harper, as part of the BBC 3 pilot season.
Swann had a small role in an episode of Demons which screened in February 2009, and also appeared in independent film, Shoot on Sight[5] directed by Jag Mundhra starring Brian Cox and Greta Scacchi about the 7/11 bombings in London.
[6] Swann played six different characters from a young Afghan girl in Black Tulips to Simon Stephens' Canopy of Stars as a wife confronting her sergeant husband about returning to war.