 Clytie Lloyd-Jones married her first husband antiques dealer, Peter Jessop, in London in 1952, with whom she adopted a daughter, Pandora, her only child.Living in New York in the late 1950s she worked as an actor in off-Broadway productions.Her first screen role was as the ghost of Miss Jessel in "The Innocents" (1961), based on Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw" and starring Deborah Kerr.