Early roles
At age 15 she was taking acting lessons at the famous Italia Conti School in London. In 1986, director David Leland cast 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 Prof
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Early Roles
At age 15 she was taking acting lessons at the famous Italia Conti School in London. In 1986, director David Leland cast her for the leading role in his movie Wish You Were Here. read more...
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 read more...
Emily Lloyd (born Emily Lloyd Pack; 29 September 1970) is an English actress.
read more...Lloyd was born in London, the daughter of Sheila (née Laden), a theatrical agent who was a longtime secretary at Harold Pinter's stage agency, and Roger Lloyd Pack, who is familiar read more...