Harry Charles Salusbury Lloyd was born on 17 November 1983 and is an English actor.
26 Facts About Harry Lloyd
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Harry Lloyd gained prominence through his roles as Will Scarlet in the BBC drama Robin Hood, Jeremy Baines in the Doctor Who episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood", and Viserys Targaryen in the first season of the HBO series Game of Thrones.
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Harry Lloyd voiced Viktor in the Netflix animated series Arcane.
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Harry Lloyd appeared in Wolf Hall on BBC Two, series 1 of Marcella on ITV, and the third season of the FX series Legion as Charles Xavier.
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Harry Lloyd is known for his theatre work, earning an Off West End Award nomination.
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Harry Lloyd's films include The Theory of Everything, Anthropoid, and The Wife.
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Harry Lloyd was born in London, the son of Marion Evelyn, a children's publisher, and Jonathan Harry Lloyd, who heads a literary agency.
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Harry Lloyd is the great-great-great-grandson of Victorian writer Charles Dickens through his mother, who is the daughter of Peter Gerald Charles Dickens, and the great-granddaughter of barrister Henry Fielding Dickens.
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Harry Lloyd is a cousin of biographer and writer Lucinda Hawksley, and actor and performer Gerald Dickens.
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Harry Lloyd is a keen football fan and an avid supporter of Chelsea FC.
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Harry 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.
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Harry Lloyd went on to study English at Christ Church, Oxford, where he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society and appeared in several plays, including Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Comedy of Errors.
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Harry Lloyd toured Japan with The Comedy of Errors for the society's 2005 summer tour, starring alongside Felicity Jones.
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In 2007, Harry 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 positive reviews.
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Harry Lloyd 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".
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Harry Lloyd was suggested as a possible candidate to play the Doctor when David Tennant left the role.
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In 2011, Harry Lloyd appeared as Viserys Targaryen in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
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Harry Lloyd appeared in the BBC comedy Taking The Flak, and as Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations.
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Harry Lloyd 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.
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Harry Lloyd took on his first leading role in the feature film Closer to the Moon, released in 2014.
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In 2015, Harry Lloyd co-created the web series Supreme Tweeter, in which he stars as a fictionalised version of himself.
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Harry Lloyd 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.
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In 2019, Harry Lloyd was cast as a young Charles Xavier in the third season of the FX series Legion, replacing Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy, both of whom had previously portrayed the character in the X-Men film series, the former having been approached about reprising the role in the series before the creative direction of the series changed.
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Later that same year, it was announced that Harry Lloyd would be cast in the series regular role as Bernard Marx in Brave New World.
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In 2021, Harry Lloyd voiced Viktor in the Netflix animated action-adventure series Arcane.
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In 2022, Harry Lloyd voiced Brian McNally in the Audible original podcast series, The Miranda Obsession and Z in the video game Xenoblade Chronicles 3.