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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.

“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.

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.

For Harry and Meryl, obviously you didn’t interact with your older or younger parts on the screen. Did you have interaction behind the scenes discussing your characters, and Phyllida could you describe how you directed them with their old and young counterparts?

H. LLOYD: Well we had a lovely few days rehearsing, and there was a lovely day which I found really helpful, when we had to take lots and lots of photos to [set] dress the house, so we had to pretend to get married and to be on honeymoon. So there was a day where me and Jim [Broadbent], Meryl and Alex [Alexandra Roach] were all wearing different costumes, and just for little moments, capturing little moments. And seeing Jim in character for the first time and recognizing things that I had seen in Dennis, and that he had picked up on [as well], it was very different than just talking to someone about how they’re going to do it—which are always pretty fatuous conversations because actors don’t normally even know what they’re doing (laughs)—to able to observe it and see some common ground in what we had and what was different about it, that was the most useful day in terms of me and Jim.

For Harry and Meryl, as actors, when you play a character like Margaret Thatcher, like Dennis, obviously people know they’re in the public record—they have a memory of them. Do you prefer playing real people or fictional characters where you can do more interpretation of that character?

H. LLOYD: It was my first time playing someone on screen who existed—not only existed, but existed within living memory of the people who might be watching it. So to begin with, that was absolutely terrifying because I thought “I’ve got the wrong shaped mouth, that thing he does! I can’t do it, it’s wrong.” And I’m trying to work out how Jim [Broadbent]’s doing it, so I felt I had lots of hoops to jump through. And as Abi was saying before, you have to take it all and then wait for some of the stuff to stay and then throw the rest all away. And what was great about playing him at the age I played him, I didn’t have to play the Dennis that people you see from the ITN news. I saw the Dennis and was interested in the Dennis people weren’t familiar with, and who there was no footage of. So I sort of felt I had the best of both worlds. I had a little bit more freedom than these guys did.

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I have already worked quite a bit on the gallery and have created a completely new one. I have made a lot of new additions to the gallery while sorting out some doubles at the same time. You can find the new gallery here or by clicking on the “Gallery” link in the navigation.

I have added all new appearances Harry attended with additions to older events, as well as pictures of The Iron Lady, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, new photoshoots and magazine scans. I hope you’ll enjoy the new additions (thanks to Adoring Emilia Clarke, Lindsey and Olivia for their contributions).