
Ormond was the daughter Josephine, a lab technician as well as John Ormond (a stockbroker) from Epsom, Surrey. Ormond is the second child of five children born to her parents. She went to private schools, initially Guildford High School and then Cranleigh School, where early leading performances in Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady began to draw attention. After a single year at art school, she transferred to Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art where she graduated in 1988. Ormond first appeared in British television in the 1989 serial Traffik The story revolves around the illegal heroin trade from the Far East to the streets of Europe. Ormond was the heroin addict daughter of the character and was also a Home Office minister working to fight heroin imports. This early role won glowing reviews.
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