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Welcome to Harry Lloyd Source, a fansite dedicated to British actor Harry Lloyd. You may know him from his roles as Jeremy Baines/Son of Mine in Doctor Who, Will Scarlett in Robin Hood, Viserys Targaryen in Game of Thrones or his most recent roles as Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations and Young Denis Thatcher in The Iron Lady. He can next be seen in The Half-Light, Closer to the Moon and Henry IV, Part 1.

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Broadway.com have posted an extensive list of presenters for this year’s Olivier Stage Awards and Harry will be amongst them! Harry is joining other British talent Hayley Atwell, Douglass Booth, Jack Davenport, James McAvoy, Sir Patrick Stewart, Zoe Wanamaker, Jodie Whittaker and more on the night.

The Olivier Stage Awards 2012 will be held in London, England on 15 April 2012 and will broadcast live on the BBC channel. Established in 1976, the Laurence Olivier Awards celebrate excellence in professional London theatre.

Harry is currently playing Duke Ferdinand in The Old Vic’s production of “The Duchess of Malfi”. The production is getting mostly favourable reviews and Harry’s Ferdinand is winning critics over.

“The Duchess of Malfi” will continue to show at The Old Vic until 9 June 2012.

In fact he needs to be, at least sometimes, rather more like Harry Lloyd’s highly convincing Ferdinand who is quietly, but manically deranged. LondonTheatre.co.uk

Finbar Lynch is also effective as the malevolent Cardinal and Harry Lloyd as the ruthless, although increasingly sanity threatened, Duke. Londonist.com

Lloyd’s trimmed text delivers all the play’s horrific set-pieces and high body count. To his immense credit, however, he unfashionably refuses to deliver a thrill-ride; instead he’s intent on delivering a more morally responsible vision. His staging of the duchess’s murder by strangulation takes a horribly long time, leaving no doubt about the appalling nature of the act. ChicagoTribune.com

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Greater expectations

Harry Lloyd has come of age. Twelve years ago, the actor cut his teeth in the BBC’s serialisation of David Copperfield, taking a marginal role as the hero’s school friend. Now, at 28, Lloyd has finally headlined in a (somewhat special) Dickens adaptation. Commissioned to mark the bicentenary of the author’s birth, the Beeb’s tentpole Christmas serialisation of Great Expectations, saw Lloyd starring as Herbert Pocket alongside Gillian Anderson. Dickens himself would be proud. After all, he is Lloyd’s great-great-great-grandfather.

“It was brilliant being offered the part,” says Lloyd. “Though I always think twice about auditioning for Dickens stuff. It makes me clam up a bit. But even if I wasn’t related, it’s something that I would definitely want to do, so I thought I should get over myself and throw myself into it – which I did.”

Lloyd’s route to the top has taken him on a safari of TV smashes. Having played Will Scarlett in the BBC’s Robin Hood and roles in Doctor Who and Game Of Thrones, he gained a cult following – and the film world has noticed. This month he appears as the young Denis Thatcher in The Iron Lady, the Oscar-winning Margaret Thatcher biopic starring Meryl Streep.

“It’s a fascinating period,” he says. “But I don’t have to deal with the later stuff, the Thatcher people know.” So, how was Meryl? “Meeting Meryl is no scandal, I’m afraid. It’s exactly how you’d imagine. She’s a very smiley person.” They didn’t cast to type, then.

Read the full article at GQ-Magazine.co.uk.

You will soon be able to check out Harry at the Old Victorian Theatre in London as he takes on the role of Ferdinand in “The Duchess of Malfi” beginnning March 28. Harry will be gracing the stage with other theatre heavy-weights Eve Best and Tom Bateman. A little bit of information about the play can be seen below, thanks to the official press release from Playbill.com and Broadway.com.

The Duchess of Malfi is the story of the recently widowed Duchess (Best), who marries Antonio Bologna (Bateman) against the wishes of her family. As jealousy, madness and bloodshed surround her, the Duchess maintains her strength, composure and dignity, even in the face of death.
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Lloyd, who plays Ferdinand, can currently be seen playing the young Denis Thatcher in the film “The Iron Lady.” Stage credits include The Little Dog Laughed with Tamsin Grieg and A View from The Bridge with Ken Stott.
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When last seen on North American screens – as the evil “beggar king” Viserys Targaryen in the medieval series Game Of Thrones — the young British actor Harry Lloyd died a pretty gruesome death.

To wit: he had molten gold poured on his head, in a grotesquerie of “crowning.”

“Yes, this is quite a divergence from that,” says the actor who plays a gregarious young Denis Thatcher, sweeping a green-grocer’s daughter named Margaret (Alexandra Roach) off her feet in the Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady.

Lloyd is good-naturedly rueful about leaving a series, for which he “totally geeked out,” but it’s obvious his career is very much alive.

Though most of the attention for The Iron Lady has been paid to star Meryl Streep (who’ll probably receive an Oscar nomination) and Jim Broadbent, who plays Denis’s amiable ghost, Lloyd and Roach are slowly getting recognized for their part in fleshing out the saga of the Western world’s first female head of state and her mate.

Lloyd was 8 when Thatcher finally retired from politics after a controversial 11 years in office. So he came largely free of political opinions and baggage, to a role that was unfamiliar to most. “I read the great biography his daughter (Carol Thatcher) wrote about him, Below The Parapet, and this amazing documentary that was made called Married to Maggie.

“But there’s not a huge amount of footage of him as a young man, so part of me panicked. I’ve only got great recordings of his speech as an old man. How do you pull that back? Eventually, I realized I had room to breathe, because people’s perceptions (of the young Denis) are less stringent.

“I would stop my research at the part where Jim (Broadbent) enters the picture, because Denis didn’t know what the future held for him, so why should I?”

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At the film’s press conference in New York, director Phyllida Lloyd, writer Abi Morgan, young Dennis actor Harry Lloyd, and the star herself Meryl Streep gave an interview to a room full of journalists. The group discussed how both the script and the rehearsal process reflected theatrical roots, the experience of depicting a person who is still living, and lots more. Streep is particularly candid, and offers a thoughtful response to those who have criticized the film. Hit the jump for the entire press conference.

This is a question for all of you: How did your background in theatre enhance your experience in this particular film?

HARRY LLOYD: I think it really helped when we were putting it together, the way we rehearsed it was very much like a play. We had all the scenes and every scene we went through over at Pinewoods [studio], and Phyllida kept it very loose, as you do early on at rehearsals—you don’t try to pin it down, knowing you’ve got a long way to go. Often in films you’ve got to rehearse it within five minutes because you’ve got to shoot it. And we gave ourselves the time to play with it and so it was all very collaborative, and I think background theatre helps you work that way.

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