Emily Lloyd

Emily Lloyd
Born Emily Lloyd-Pack
(1970-09-29) 29 September 1970
London, England
Occupation Actress
Years active 1986-present
Partner(s) Christian Jupp
Parent(s) Roger Lloyd-Pack (deceased)
Sheila Ball
Relatives Charles Lloyd-Pack (grandfather)
Awards

Nominated: BAFTA
1988 Best Actress in Wish You Were Here
Won: National Society of Film Critics
1987 Best Actress in Wish You Were Here

Evening Standard British Film Award
1987 Best Actress in Wish You Were Here

Emily Lloyd-Pack, known as Emily Lloyd (born 29 September 1970), is an English actress,[1] perhaps best known for her breakthrough performance at the age of sixteen in the 1987 David Leland film Wish You Were Here.

Early life

She was born Emily Lloyd-Pack, the daughter of Sheila (née Laden), now known as Sheila Hughes,[2] a theatrical agent who was a long-time secretary at Harold Pinter's stage agency, and Roger Lloyd-Pack, the actor best known as Trigger in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses.[3] Her grandfather, Charles Lloyd-Pack, was also a stage and film actor. After the divorce from Roger Lloyd-Pack, Emily's mother re-married and had a second daughter, Charlotte.

Career

Early roles

At the age of 15, Lloyd was taking acting lessons at the Italia Conti School in London. In 1986, director David Leland cast her for the leading role in his film Wish You Were Here.[4] The film was based loosely on the 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 success at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival and 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.[5]

In 1989, she appeared in the film Cookie directed by Susan Seidelman, but it was reported that the lead actor Peter Falk became so frustrated with her that he slapped her. In the same year she appeared in In Country, directed by Norman Jewison during which she had a falling-out with the lead actor Bruce Willis who then ignored her for the rest of the filming period.[6] Also in 1989 she received an offer for the film Mermaids directed by Richard Benjamin which led to her turning down the role Julia Roberts eventually took in Pretty Woman. However, due to problems with the film's star, Cher, who thought that Lloyd didn't fit as her onscreen daughter, she lost the role to Winona Ryder whilst Cher subsequently fired the production's original director Lasse Hallström and his replacement Frank Oz before employing Benjamin. Lloyd sued Orion Pictures and received US$175,000 in damages. Her next film was in 1990 in Chicago Joe and the Showgirl, directed by Bernard Rose. She was subsequently cast in Woody Allen's 1992 film Husbands and Wives, but was fired by Allen after two weeks due to her burgeoning ill health. Juliette Lewis eventually took her place. Later in 1992 she appeared in her most successful film to date, A River Runs Through It. In 1995 she was initially cast in Tank Girl but was fired by the director, Rachel Talalay, for refusing to shave her head, an allegation Lloyd refutes. Lori Petty signed on to replace her. In 1996 she appeared in the Sean Bean football film When Saturday Comes and in 1997, she appeared in a supporting role in the critically acclaimed film Welcome to Sarajevo directed by Michael Winterbottom.[7]

Later roles

Her début on the stage was as Bella Kooling in Max Klapper at the Electric Circus, which garnered high praise. She was subsequently cast as Eliza Doolittle, opposite Roy Marsden as Higgins and Michael Elphick as her father Doolittle, in the 1997 West End production of Pygmalion (Albery Theatre), produced by Bill Kenwright. On the 18 June, only ten days after rehearsals began, the original director Giles Havergal walked out, to be replaced by the associate producer Marc Sinden, before Ann Mitchell stepped into the fray a week later and then also left.[8] The next day Lloyd left the production, amid rumours of her having been asked to leave and stories of threatened resignations from the rest of the cast if she had stayed.[9] Her part was taken at very short notice by Carli Norris (which made her name)[10] and Ray Cooney eventually took over as director, the fourth in the troubled production.[11]

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. In 2003, she appeared 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. In 2008, she made an appearance in the short film The Conservatory by director Reed Van Dyk.

Health

Since 1992, Lloyd says she has been struggling to overcome depression and anxiety,[12] in connection with being sexually abused at the age of five by a family friend. Following a suicide attempt and an issue with self harming, she spent two weeks under institutionalized psychiatric care at the Priory and clinics in America in the early 1990s.[13] At various points, in addition to attention deficit disorder, she has been diagnosed with mild schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome.[14][15]

Personal life

Emily Lloyd is in a relationship with former Flying Medallions vocalist Christian Jupp. She revealed that she became pregnant just a month after the death of her father.[16] In October 2014, Lloyd became the mother of a girl.[17]

Autobiography

In May 2013, Lloyd published Wish I Was There, a memoir of her career and battle with mental illness.[18]

Filmography

Year Title Character Director
1987 Wish You Were Here Lynda Mansell David Leland
1989 Cookie Carmela 'Cookie' Voltecki Susan Seidelman
1989 In Country Samantha Hughes Norman Jewison
1990 Chicago Joe and the Showgirl Betty Jones Bernard Rose
1991 Scorchers Splendid David Beaird
1992 A River Runs Through It Jessie Burns Robert Redford
1994 Override Avis Danny Glover
1995 One Hundred and One Nights - Agnès Varda
1995 Under the Hula Moon Betty Wall Jeff Celentano
1996 Dead Girl Mother Adam Coleman Howard
1996 When Saturday Comes Annie Doherty Maria Giese
1996 Masculine Mescaline - Gary Love
1997 Welcome to Sarajevo Annie McGee Michael Winterbottom
1997 Livers Ain't Cheap aka The Real Thing Lisa James Merendino
1998 Boogie Boy Hester Craig Hamann
1998 Brand New World aka Woundings Kim Patterson Roberta Hanley
2002 The Honeytrap Catherine Michael G. Gunther
2003 Riverworld Alice Liddell Hargreaves Kari Skogland
2005 Hey Mr. DJ Angela Danny Patrick
2008 The Conservatory Audition Monitor Reed Van Dyk

Awards

References

External links

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