Emily Lloyd

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Emily Lloyd

Born Emily Lloyd Pack
September 29, 1970 (1970-09-29) (age 37)
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Emily Lloyd (born as Emily Lloyd Pack on 29 September 1970) is an English actress.

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[edit] Early life

Lloyd was born to Roger Lloyd Pack and Sheila Ball in London. Lloyd comes from an actors' family: Roger Lloyd Pack is familiar as a stage actor and well known as Trigger in the British hit sitcom Only Fools and Horses, and Sheila Ball was a stage agent and a longtime secretary at Harold Pinter's stage agency. Her grandfather Charles Lloyd Pack had appeared in movies like The Mirror Crack'd, If...., The Three Worlds of Gulliver and Dracula.

Her parents divorced when she was two, and she and her younger sister Charlotte grew up with their mother.

[edit] Career

[edit] Early roles

At age 15 she was taking acting lessons at the famous Italia Conti School in London. In 1986, director David Leland casted her for the leading role in his movie Wish You Were Here. The movie was based loosely on the youth memoirs of British madam Cynthia Payne. Lloyd's younger sister played the 11-year-old Lynda in a flashback sequence.

Wish You Were Here was a surprising success at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival and Lloyd was celebrated as new and fresh talent. She received the Evening Standard Film Award and the Award of the National Society of Film Critics in 1987. She was also nominated for a BAFTA award.

In 1988, she appeared in Cookie by Susan Seidelman and In Country by Norman Jewison, but both movies were box office flops. Her next film was Chicago Joe and the Showgirl. It was directed by Bernard Rose and David Yallop's screenplay based on the well-known Cleft chin murder case from war-torn London.

In 1988 she was in talks for the movie Scandal (about the Profumo affair). But because she was too young for that role her part went to Bridget Fonda. In 1989 she received an offer for the movie Mermaids by Richard Benjamin. Due to problems with the film's star, Cher, who was of the opinion that Lloyd didn't fit as her onscreen daughter, she lost the role to Winona Ryder. She sued Orion Pictures and received $175,000 in damages. In 1992 she was scheduled to appear in Husbands and Wives by Woody Allen, but after Allen shot some takes with Lloyd he thought that it wasn't working and so Juliette Lewis took over the role. In 1995 she lost the title role in the movie Tank Girl, apparently refusing to shave her head, so the role went to Lori Petty.

In 1992 she appeared in her most successful movie to date: A River Runs Through It, Robert Redford's screen adaptation of the novel by Norman MacLean.

[edit] Later roles

In the following years, she appeared mostly in B-movies or in films which were either ignored by the audience or received poor reviews.

In 1997, she appeared in a supporting role in the critically acclaimed film Welcome to Sarajevo by Michael Winterbottom. Her first attempt as stage actress in 1997 ended with casting problems for Pygmalion where she had to leave the play during the rehearsal.

In 2002, she appeared in the thriller The Honeytrap, shot in London and directed by Michael G. Gunther, in which she starred alongside Valerie Edmond, Anthony Green and Stuart McQuarrie.

She eventually recovered from her OCD and, in 2003, made her stage debut as Ophelia in Hamlet at the Shakespeare Festival in Leeds and Brighton.

In 2004 she was cast in the British television series Denial, the British counterpart to Sex and the City, but according to media reports this show was cancelled.

[edit] Health

In 1997 Emily went to India. She was scheduled to make a film about a blind girl and she had an audience with the Dalai Lama. While waiting for the audience she was bitten by one of the temple dogs. The effects of the injury and having taken too many Larium tablets affected her mental state.[1]

[edit] Filmography

Year Title Character Director
2005 Hey Mr. DJ Angela Danny Patrick
2003 Riverworld Alice Lidell Hargreaves Kari Skogland
2002 The Honeytrap Catherine Michael G. Gunther
1998 Brand New World aka Woundings Kim Patterson Roberta Hanley
1998 Boogie Boy Hester Craig Hamann
1997 Liver's Ain't Cheap aka The Real Thing Lisa James Merendino
1997 Welcome to Sarajevo Annie McGee Michael Winterbottom
1996 Masculine Mescaline - Gary Love
1996 When Saturday Comes Annie Doherty Maria Giese
1996 Dead Girl Mother Adam Coleman Howard
1995 Under the Hula Moon Betty Wall Jeff Celentano
1995 Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma aka A Hundred and One Night - Agnès Varda
1994 Override Avis Danny Glover
1992 A River Runs Through It Jessie Burns Robert Redford
1991 Scorchers Splendid David Beaird
1990 Chicago Joe and the Showgirl Betty Jones Bernard Rose
1989 In Country Samantha Hughes Norman Jewison
1989 Cookie Carmela 'Cookie' Voltecki Susan Seidelman
1987 Wish You Were Here Lynda Mansell David Leland

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[edit] Awards

[edit] Further reading

  • 1991 Quinlans Illustrated Directory of Film Stars by David Quinlan, B.T. Batsford Limited - London, (eng) ISBN 0-7134-6324-4
  • 1993 Halliwells Filmgoer's Companion 10th Edition by John Walker (Editor) and Leslie Halliwell, HarperCollinsPublishers - London, (eng) ISBN 0-586-09174-2
  • 1993 The Hollywood Who's Who - The Actors and Directors in Today's Hollywood by Robyn Karney (Editor), The Continuum Publishing Company, New York, (eng) ISBN 0-8264-0588-6
  • 1995 Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: Career Profiles of More Than 2,000 Actors and Filmmakers, Past and Present by Leonard Maltin, Spencer Green (Editor), Luke Sader (Editor), Cathleen Anderson (Editor), Plume Books, (eng) ISBN 0-452-27058-8


[edit] References

  1. ^ Wild child who went over the edge, The Daily Telegraph, 23 July 2003. Retrieved 15 December 2007.

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