1. Ella Summer Purnell was born on 17 September 1996 and is an English actress.
22 Facts About Ella Purnell
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Ella Purnell began her career as a child actress in West End theatre and films such as Never Let Me Go, Intruders and Maleficent.
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On television, Purnell has starred in series such as Ordeal by Innocence, Belgravia, Yellowjackets, Fallout and Sweetpea.
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Ella Purnell has voiced Jinx in Arcane and Gwyndala in Star Trek: Prodigy.
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Ella Summer Purnell was born in the Whitechapel area of London on 17 September 1996, and grew up in the city's Bethnal Green area.
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Ella Purnell attended Bethnal Green Montessori, Forest School, the City of London School for Girls and the Young Actors Theatre Islington.
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Ella Purnell attended weekly classes at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, studying acting, singing and dance, and was represented by their in-house talent agency.
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Ella Purnell decided to travel the world for a year to "find herself" but returned to acting when she was offered a role in Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which she accepted as it had been her dream to work with Burton.
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Ella Purnell described her decision to defer university as "bittersweet at first because it felt like a lost opportunity of a different path in life" but was glad she chose acting.
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Ella Purnell was then cast as Kayleigh in Gustavo Ron's film Ways to Live Forever and as Mia in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's film Intruders.
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Ella Purnell was named by Screen International as one of its 10 UK Stars of Tomorrow in 2010.
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Ella Purnell later appeared in the BBC HD short film Candy.
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Ella Purnell appeared as Dolce in Jeff Wadlow's film Kick-Ass 2 and starred in Frank Hall Green's film Wildlike, which earned her a number of accolades at festivals.
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Ella Purnell played the teenage version of Angelina Jolie's titular character in Robert Stromberg's Disney film Maleficent.
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Ella Purnell then took a break from acting, but returned to star in Tim Burton's film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children as she had always wanted to work with him.
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Ella Purnell then played Mia in the film Access All Areas and Winston Churchill's secretary Helen Garrett in Jonathan Teplitzky's historical drama film Churchill.
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Ella Purnell appeared as Hester Argyll in the BBC miniseries Ordeal by Innocence and starred as Tess in the Starz series Sweetbitter.
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Ella Purnell played Lady Maria Grey in Julian Fellowes' period drama Belgravia and began starring as Jackie in the Showtime drama series Yellowjackets.
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Ella Purnell voiced Gwyn in the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy and voiced Jinx in the Netflix series Arcane.
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Ella Purnell began starring as Lucy MacLean in the Amazon Prime Video series Fallout and as the main character in the dark comedy series Sweetpea, garnering critical praise for both.
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Ella Purnell had a relationship with Max Bennett Kelly that was confirmed in June 2022.
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In 2016, at the age of 19, Ella Purnell worked with her former Forest School schoolmate Arifa Nasim to launch Educate2Eradicate, a UK-based organisation building on Nasim's grassroots efforts to eradicate honour-based violence and addressing the issue of forced child-marriage.