Background

Ethnicity: He is of English, Welsh, and Scottish ancestry (some of his Anglo ancestors lived in India, Australia, and New Zealand).

Lloyd was born on November 17, 1983, in London, the son of Marion Evelyn (née Dickens), a children's publisher, and Jonathan Lloyd, who heads a literary agency. He is the great-great-great-grandson of Victorian writer Charles Dickens through his mother, who is the daughter of Captain Peter Dickens, RN. One of his maternal great-grandfathers was Rear-Admiral Henry Blagrove. He is a cousin of biographer and writer Lucinda Hawksley, and actor and performer Gerald Dickens.

Education

Lloyd was educated at Eton College and, while there, made his television debut at the age of 16 as James Steerforth in the BBC's 1999 adaptation of David Copperfield opposite Daniel Radcliffe. In 2002, he was cast as young Rivers in Goodbye Mr. Chips.

He went on to study English at Christ Church, Oxford, where he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society and appeared in several plays like Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Comedy of Errors. He toured Japan with The Comedy of Errors for the society's 2005 summer tour, starring alongside Felicity Jones. Lloyd left the University of Oxford in 2005, graduating with an upper second-class degree.

Career

In 2007, Lloyd made his professional stage debut at the Trafalgar Studios in A Gaggle of Saints, one of three short plays that make up Neil LaBute's Bash, for which he received many positive reviews. He played Jeremy Baines, a student whose mind is taken over by a species of aliens called the Family of Blood, in the Doctor Who episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood." He was suggested as a possible candidate to play the Doctor when David Tennant left the role.

In 2011, Lloyd appeared as Viserys Targaryen in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He also appeared in the BBC comedy Taking The Flak, and as Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations. He had small roles in Jane Eyre and The Iron Lady and starred as the son of a gangster in The Fear, which aired on Channel 4 in December 2012. In 2012, he appeared as Sir Edmund Mortimer in the BBC television film The Hollow Crown: Henry IV, Part 1, and he played Ferdinand, The Duke of Calabria, in The Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic in London. He took on his first leading role in the feature film Closer to the Moon, released in 2014. Lloyd also appeared as Stephen Hawking's fictionalized roommate Brian in the Best Picture-nominated film The Theory of Everything, alongside Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne and Academy Award nominee Felicity Jones.

In 2015, Lloyd co-created the web series Supreme Tweeter, in which he stars as a fictionalized version of himself. The following year he played Adolf Opálka in the epic war film Anthropoid, also starring Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy. He also appeared in the ITV series Marcella. He returned to the stage for the production Good Canary at the Rose Theatre, which was directed by John Malkovich in the role of the protagonist. In 2017, he filmed for the part of Peter Quayle in the science fiction thriller series Counterpart with J. K. Simmons and starred as young Joe Castleman in the film The Wife, an adaptation of the book by Meg Wolitzer, opposite Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce (the latter playing the older Joe).

Achievements

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  Harry Charles Salusbury Lloyd gained his fame for his roles as Viserys Targaryen in the first season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. He is also known as the creator of the web series Supreme Tweeter.
  
  

Works

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  • Closer to the Moon

    (A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of o...)

    2013
  • Riot Club

    (Two first-year students (Sam Claflin, Max Irons) at Oxfor...)

    2014
  • Anthropoid

    (In December 1941, two Czech soldiers (Cillian Murphy, Jam...)

    2016
  • The Theory of Everything

    (Stephen Hawking, an excellent astrophysics student workin...)

    2014
  • Big Significant Things

    (Craig and his girlfriend have a week before they move acr...)

    2014
  • The Show

    (A reality TV host and a greedy network executive launch a...)

    2015
  • Philophobia: or the Fear of Falling in Love

    (Damien Booster is digging his bachelor lifestyle until a ...)

    2019
  • The Wife

    (A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stock...)

    2017
  • Narcopolis

    (A narcotics cop works in a world where illegal drugs are ...)

    2015
  • Jane Eyre

    (Jane Eyre, a governess, manages to find her true love in ...)

    2011
  • The Iron Lady

    (An aged Margaret Thatcher gets nostalgic as she empties h...)

    2011

• TV series

  • Manhattan

    (Set against the backdrop of the greatest race against tim...)

    2014
  • Wolf Hall

    (Tony Award-winning actor Mark Rylance and Emmy Award-winn...)

    2015
  • Marcella

    (Marcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sa...)

    2016
  • Robin Hood

    (When Robin returned home from the Crusades, he found his ...)

    2006
  • Game of Thrones

    (Nine noble families wage war against each other in order ...)

    2011
  • Counterpart

    (Howard Silk, a low-level bureaucrat in an agency, is not ...)

    2017

Views

Quotations: "I want to be an author."

"The whole world of Game of Thrones (2011) was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it."

"The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads."

"If I'm honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason I'm still doing it, and if I'm still doing it in ten years' time, I'm sure I'll find something else."

"It's lovely to have a part that requires you to learn something that's also interesting."

"I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for."

"Part of George R.R. Martin's brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet."

"I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good."

"My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colors and smells."

"If you're going to be related to someone it might as well be Dickens. I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things."

"It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him."

"The less friendly your relationship is on camera, the more useful it is to be friends with them off camera."

Membership

Harry joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society.

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  Oxford University Dramatic Society

Personality

Harry is a big fan of his ancestor. "As a child I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is. Even with a book like Our Mutual Friend, which has 100 characters, they've all got their own own dialect, their own idiosyncrasies," he told the Evening Standard.

Physical Characteristics: Height: 6' (1,83 m)

Interests

• Writers

  Charles Dickens

Connections

Harry has dated fellow actor Gugu Mbatha-Raw, whom he met while filming Vital Signs in 2006, but the pair split in 2012. Harry likes to keep his private life private, steering clear of social media.

Father:

Jonathan Lloyd

He heads a literary agency.

Mother:

Marion Dickens

Great-grandfather:

Peter Gerald Charles Dickens

(13 October 1879 – 19 November 1962)

He was a senior Royal Navy officer and the grandson of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens.

great-great-great-grandfather:

Charles Dickens

(7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)

He was an English writer and social critic.

maternal grandfather:

Peter Gerald Charles Dickens

(6 April 1917 – 25 May 1987)

He was a Royal Navy officer during World War II and a great-grandson of novelist Charles Dickens.

Great-grandfather:

Henry Blagrove

(26 April 1887 – 14 October 1939)

He was the first British Royal Navy officer of flag rank to be killed in the Second World War.

Great-grandmother:

Kathlen Pearl Birch

colleague:

Emilia Clarke

Emilia Clarke is an English actress. She is best known for her role in the HBO series ‘Game of Thrones.’

colleague:

Jason Momoa

(born August 1, 1979)

He is an American actor.

colleague:

Iain Glen

(born 24 June 1961)

He is a Scottish actor.

References

• Harry Lloyd - Twitter