Harry Lloyd Source

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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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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