Emily Lloyd
| Emily Lloyd | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Emily Lloyd-Pack 29 September 1970 London, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1986-2008 |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent(s) |
Roger Lloyd-Pack (deceased) Sheila Ball |
| Relatives | Charles Lloyd-Pack, grandfather (deceased) |
| 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 (born 29 September 1970), known as Emily Lloyd, is an English actress, perhaps best known for her breakthrough performance at the age of sixteen in the 1987 David Leland film Wish You Were Here, for which she garnered huge critical acclaim.
She was born Emily Lloyd-Pack, the daughter of Sheila (née Laden), now known as Sheila Hughes, 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. 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.
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. 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.
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. 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.
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