
Ormond was born in Epsom, Surrey, the daughter of Josephine the laboratory technician, and John Ormond, a stockbroker. She is the second of five children born to her parents. She first attended Guildford High School and then Cranleigh School. There, her first lead roles in Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady were noticed. After a single year of art school, she was transferred to Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. She graduated in 1988. Ormond first appeared on British television in the 1989 drama Traffik, about the illegal drug trade that stretches from the far East into the streets of Europe. Ormond played the drug addicted daughter of the lead character, who was a Home Office minister in the UK government who was involved in fighting heroin importation. The role was praised from the beginning.
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