She felt the place was in the business of turning out cute kids for television commercials and sitcoms, and that acting teaching was unsubtle and unchallenging. Indeed, she attended seven in all, before winning her long-term campaign, which was to convince her parents to let her go to drama school.īut the year she recently completed at a London theater academy wasn't a great success. At another, she says, the headmistress went mad. At one supposed place of learning, she recalls trying and failing to study while the boys ran riot, smashing the windows. Her pink-and-gold looks are far from ordinary, but her voice and manner are those of any lively London schoolgirl, which, of course, is precisely what she was until just the other day, though not always very contentedly. ''I didn't have visions of myself onstage, but from the age of 5 I had visions of being on the big screen, like Elizabeth Taylor.''
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So it's not altogether surprising that Miss Lloyd has never wanted to be anything but an actress or, as she admits with a guileless giggle, a movie star.
Her mother has worked as a theatrical agent. Miss Lloyd's grandfather was an actor, and her father, Roger Lloyd Pack, is currently a leading member of the National Theater company. How many acclaimed performers have been so young - or, if that young, have so manifestly merited their acclaim?
Emily Lloyd began shooting ''Wish You Were Here'' the very day she turned 16, was still that age when Cannes elected itself her oyster and will be more than a month short of her 17th birthday when the film opens in New York on Friday at the Lincoln Plaza.
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Others may well have looked up at the sky and seen small planes trailing amorous messages addressed to them: ''Emily, We Love You.''īut all that doesn't often happen to a teen-age actress playing her first professional part in a low-budget British movie. Others, too, have spent their mornings evading the autograph sleuths, their afternoons being interviewed by the magazines, their evenings being feted by the famous. Others, too, have spent their mornings evading the autograph sleuths, their afternoons being interviewed by the magazines, their evenings being feted by the famous.ĬANNES AT FILM FESTIVAL time is notoriously prone to sudden crushes and intemperate crazes, and Emily Lloyd isn't the first unknown actress to have inflamed its talent spotters and celebrity hunters. LEAD: CANNES AT FILM FESTIVAL time is notoriously prone to sudden crushes and intemperate crazes, and Emily Lloyd isn't the first unknown actress to have inflamed its talent spotters and celebrity hunters.
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