12 Facts About Phyllida Lloyd

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Phyllida Lloyd has been nominated for a BAFTA Award, a European Film Award, 2 Tony Awards, and has won and been nominated for numerous awards.

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Phyllida Lloyd moved on to the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester where she directed The Winter's Tale, The School for Scandal, Medea, and an acclaimed production of Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka.

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Phyllida Lloyd's productions have won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 1991 2000 and 2007.

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In spite of the mixed reception accorded to her first production at the National Theatre, Phyllida Lloyd nonetheless returned to direct productions of The Way of the World, Pericles, What the Butler Saw, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Duchess of Malfi, which were well received.

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Phyllida Lloyd directed an award-winning production of Boston Marriage at London's Donmar Warehouse in 2001.

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Phyllida Lloyd directed the 2008 cinematic adaptation, which marked her feature debut.

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Phyllida Lloyd was nominated as Best Director of a Play in the 2009 Tony Awards for her production of Mary Stuart.

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In 2013 Phyllida Lloyd directed Cush Jumbo in a one women show about Josephine Baker at the Bush Theatre and subsequently at Joe's Pub in New York.

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Phyllida Lloyd directed The Iron Lady, a biopic of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, with Meryl Streep as Thatcher.

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Phyllida Lloyd was named one of the 101 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain by The Independent newspaper in 2008; and in 2010 was ranked 22nd in the same list.

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Phyllida Lloyd was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 New Year Honours.

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On 16 August 2018, Phyllida Lloyd condemned the destruction of the Said al-Mishal Cultural Centre in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza five days earlier.