
Ormond was born in Epsom, Surrey, the daughter of Josephine an engineer, and John Ormond, a stockbroker. Ormond is the second of five children to her parents. She went to private school, first Guildford High School and then Cranleigh School, where early lead performances in Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady started to attract attention. After a single year of art school, she was transferred to Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. She graduated in the year 1988. Ormond first appeared in British television in the 1989 series Traffik, about the illegal heroin trade that flows from the far East into the streets of Europe. Ormond was the heroin-addicted daughter of the main character an official from the Home Office minister who was engaged in fighting the importation of heroin. This role was highly praised right from the start.
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