
Ormond was born in Epsom, Surrey, the daughter of Josephine, a laboratory technician and John Ormond, a stockbroker. Ormond is the fifth of five children to her parents. She went to private schools, initially Guildford High School and then Cranleigh School, where early stage performances like Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady started to attract attention. After a year in art school she was transferred to Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art where she was graduated in 1988. Ormond was first shown on British television in 1989's series Traffik. The series was centered on the illicit heroin trade which was carried out from the middle of the East to Europe. Ormond played the drug-addicted child of the main character, a Home Office minister working to stop the importation of heroin. The first role he played earned rave reviews.
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