WOW! Remember Emily Lloyd?

Sad. I decent haircut would go miles in improving her looks.

The Daily Mail is vile doing this to her. She has mental health issues.

She was an amazing, natural actress in her youth in a way most current actresses cannot ever dream of being. Good luck to her and may her fortunes change for the better.

I'd live in Hackney over LA any day of the week.

r3 is way too positive a person for the DL

[quote]She has spoken openly in interviews about her mental health problems %E2%80%93 doctors have diagnosed mild schizophrenia, Tourette%E2%80%99s syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder and attention deficit disorder. And she has struggled with crippling insomnia

WTF? How can one person have so many ailments?

R6, it sounds like they lifted aspects of a typical meth addiction.

Is this a newspaper or a rag that invents interviews and ailments?

What an awful, unnecessary article and photograph. I loved her in Wish You Were Here. It remains one of my favorite films after all these years.

They've done this kind of thing before to her.

Answering a question about the Daily Mail. It would be a more serious tabloid paper but incredibly right wing and also horribly homophobic - look up Jan Moir and Stephen Gately. It always surprises me to see it quoted so freqently on this forum. I love reading here by the way but won't be posting again as I'm straight, English and female so don't think I quite fit. ;)

Nasty rag. Racist, homophobic and anti American. Their day is coming just like Murdoch's.

I hate the way the Daily Mail harrasses former celebrities who've fallen on hard times, have put on weight, or are looking their age. It's so cruel, and to think after Diana died they promised never to print another papparazzi picture.

The picture of Emily and her father is so strange. His hand is dark brown and hers is red.

She pings.

A prime example of Murdoch-era tabloid "journalism." Invasion of privacy, stalking and harrassment followed by public humiliation using the most lurid attainable details. They've even got her medical records.

Such an incredible beauty and talent. Was the original choice for the Winona Ryder role in "Mermaids" and Cher had her fired because she looked nothing like her daughter. She sued, cannot remember if she won or not.%0D %0D There were a number of roles that she was supposed to have that she lost. Interesting story that after the success of "Wish You Were Here" she was brought out to LA and offerred the world. She wound up making "In Country" with Bruce Willis and a movie titled "Cookie" with Peter Falk. Neither did very well and I think "A River Runs Through it" was already a comeback role of sorts. %0D %0D Had a rep for being difficult, claimed to have crippling anxiety/OCD for years. I don't know whether it was that or drugs that caused her downfall. It's hard to tell when they're telling the truth or its PR spin, Kristy McNichol was a similar case.

She and her clothes still look better than Britney Spears'.

I was her co-star in Cookie before I retired from acting, though I made a glorious and much-lauded comeback in Broadway's The Normal Heart this past season! I have made and continue to make millions from directing and shepherding Wicked through its international success.

R9, please don't leave. I'm a straight female also and have the feeling there are many of us who read and post here. It's a wonderful site, often very funny.

what is it with these over-the-top stories about how a woman in her 40s no longer looks like when she was 20? Is this breaking news to anyone? The comments on the link, mercifully, are very supportive of her.

The Daily Fail ran a very similar (if not word for word) story like this about a year ago. Basically they got a new terrible pic of Emily and cut and pasted their previous evil drivel. Make no mistake this site and the paper are more insidious than the Murdoch lot.

[quote]Answering a question about the Daily Mail. It would be a more serious tabloid paper but incredibly right wing and also horribly homophobic - look up Jan Moir and Stephen Gately. It always surprises me to see it quoted so freqently on this forum.

Do you now what a troll is? In this case it's the Daily Mail Troll or DMT, one of DL's most active and not to be confused with BMT (Big Muscle Troll).

She was so fucking good in "Wish You Were Here." Never seemed to get a project worthy of her after that, sadly.

What I most hate about the Daily Mail is my inablity to stay away from its website for more than a few days.

[quote]Cher had her fired because she looked nothing like her daughter.

Cher's own daughter, ahem son, looks nothing like her.

Goodness! A quick glance at those photos and I swore I was looking at Kate Winslet!

Eerie.

Namaste.

Yet Ghoulia Roberts continues to befoul cinema. Life is unfair.

Up yer bum-p

Her father pulled a John and Yoko by abandoning his first wife and family for his "soulmate."%0D

bump

Her father was one of the old perverts on THE VICAR OF DIBLEY and now he's on that dreadful THE OLD GUYs, both Britcoms on ETV.

Name's Roger Lloyd-Pack.

Don't get his appeal or humor, er humour.

Her father is more famous for being on the old "Only Fools and Horses" show.

This is kind of a personal shock to me, because I remember what a pretty girl she was in "A River Run Through It". Thought she would age gracefully.

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Here she is last year.

So Cher didn't want Emily Lloyd to play opposite her in "Mermaids" because she "looked nothing like her daughter?" And I suppose Winona Ryder was an exact match. Ryder didn't look she could be even remotely related to Cher. Even before all the disfiguring plastic surgery Cher had an unusual ethnic look about her. It would have been fairly tough to find an young actress who looked anything like her at all.

As for Lloyd, she's just one of those types who was never suited for stardom. I guess the main factor for her decline was mental illness. She does look very bad now, like a bag lady. Sad, but that's the way it goes for some people.

Emily got a great line to Cher tho. Cher said "you don't biologically look like me." And Emily said, "you don't biologically look like you." Then she knew she'd get fired.

She admits to smoking crack. The "mild schizophrenia diagnosis kind of points to her just being another Hollywood drug casualty.

Woody Allen fired her from Husbands and Wives because she couldn't speak in an American dialect.

She was replaced by Juliette Lewis.

She had to turn down Pretty Woman because she was attached to Mermaids.

She was great in I Wish You Were Here. Who knows what she went through? Hope she is ok now.

Apparently she started filming that on her 16th birthday. Performers who find fame in their teens are more often than not destined to become fuck ups.

Emily's character in Wish You Were Here was based on the youth of Cynthia Payne, who became a famous madam in England.

Poor lass. Glad to see no one here pile on her, the piling on is usually reserved for the arrogant, and assholic.

Mental illness did her in. People with severe mental issues should never go into show business. It only exacerbates mental illness.

She is lovely in "A River Runs Through It." And her American accent is just fine in that.

The idea that a teenage girl who gives a sensational movie performance can become the next Meryl Streep is terribly naive. After all, Meryl Streep didn't even get out of drama school until she was 26... she did her first movie after that.... and Emily was 10 years younger when she did hers. But by the time Emily was about 22 or 23, she was already considered a has-been or somebody who never met her potential. Nobody ever considered that she had been far too young to handle success. Look at her contemporaries and the pressure put on them to succeed... Winona Ryder ended up having a nervous breakdown and shoplifting and Kate Winslet practically went into hiding after Titanic. Emily Lloyd could very easily have come back into films when she was 26 or 27 and carved out a great career for herself, but she was still being punished for whatever problems she'd had adjusting to teenage stardom.

She looks like a super-sized Jenna Elfman in OP’s pic.

R6 Lady Gaga is another has been who claims to have a million diseases and illnesses every week

Bumping this thread (no, I'm not the serial bumper).

But I watched Cookie tonight and while it's not a great movie, I do love Lloyd in it, as well as Peter Falk, Dianne Wiest, and scene-stealing Brenda Vaccaro (even Joy Behar is in it).

I always liked Lloyd. She was brilliant in Wish You Were Here and I also liked her in In Country and Cookie. I really thought she would have a stellar career in the '90s but it didn't happen.

In the 80s I’d say she was ahead of Winona based on her performance in Wish You Were Here, I’d say she still had great potential up into around 1994 when the bottom appears to have fallen out. Interesting to think what could have been had she not had the health episodes she had spoken about. I could easily see her playing the Bridget Jones role for example. Could she perhaps have played Sliding Doors or whatever English roles Gwyneth ended up in (ignoring Weinstein’s influence of course).

R38 More like Woody Allen insisted that Emily sleep with him and she declined and was fired.

[quote]R3 She was an amazing, natural actress in her youth in a way most current actresses cannot ever dream of being. Good luck to her and may her fortunes change for the better.

Yes. Her American career was poised to take off when she left/was-fired-from some big projects... "Mermaids," "Husbands and Wives," and "Scandal."

I thought Lloyd was really strong in In Country. I have always liked that film. Nice supporting turns from Bruce Willis and Joan Allen (in an early role) and the lovely Peggy Rea. The ending of that film always gets to me.

She was at Italia Conti stage school the same time as Naomi Campbell, Gabrielle Anwar and Lisa Snowdon. She was the most promising out of that crop.