Emily Lloyd

Emily Lloyd (born Emily Lloyd Pack; London, 29 September 1970) is an English actress. --- She is the daughter of Sheila (née Laden), now known as Sheila Hughes, a theatrical agent who was a longtime secretary at Harold Pinter's stage agency, and Roger Lloyd-Pack, a stage actor, well known as Trigger in the British hit sitcom Only Fools and Horses. Her grandfather, Charles Lloyd Pack, was also a stage and film actor. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. She and her younger sister Charlotte grew up with their mother. 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 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 films 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". In 1989 she received an offer for the film Mermaids by Richard Benjamin. 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. Lloyd sued Orion Pictures and received $175,000 in damages. Later in 1992 she appeared in her most successful film to date, A River Runs Through It. In 1997, she appeared in a supporting role in the critically acclaimed film Welcome to Sarajevo by Michael Winterbottom.