Ella Smith was recently awarded the Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Best Newcomer Awards for her
role in Fat Pig at Trafalgar Studios.
Her other theatre credits include Frankenstein at the National Theatre, Bedlam at the Globe, Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Rose Theatre and The Pocket Orchestra.
Her film credits include Womb, The Wedding Video, Jimmy’s End, St Trinian’s: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold and Birds Like Us. Her television credits include Mistresses, Sold, Extra Peeps, Cape Wrath / Meadowlands and Strictly Confidential. Her radio credits include Hold My Breath, The Man Who Built Tunnels, Jane’s Story, Scandinavian Dreams, 84 Charing Cross Road, Man of the Moment, Incident at Boulonvilliers.
Ella has a love of music. She was a girl chorister at Salisbury Cathedral, was awarded second place in the Lutine Prize at Guildhall, and harboured ambitions to become an Opera Singer if her life had taken a slightly different turn!
Harry Lloyd has appeared frequently in television and on stage since leaving Oxford University in 2005. This year he was seen in Jane Eyre and HBO's Game of Thrones, and plays Herbert Pocket in the BBC's Christmas adaptation of Great Expectations.
Upcoming films include The Iron Lady, with Meryl Streep, and Closer to the Moon, with Mark Strong and Vera Farmiga.