
Ormond was born in Epsom, Surrey, the daughter of Josephine who was a laboratory technician, and John Ormond, a stockbroker. She is the fifth of five children to her parents. In the beginning, she was a student at Guildford High School and then Cranleigh School. There, her first lead roles in Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady were noticed. After a year in art school, she was enrolled to Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and graduated in 1988. Ormond was first seen on British television in 1989's show Traffik. This series focused on the trade in heroin that was illegal across the world, from the Far East up to Europe. Ormond played the heroin dependent daughter of the leading character and was also a Home Office minister working to fight heroin imports. The role was Ormond's debut and was praised by the critics as a success.
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