Ella Purnell

Ella Purnell is a British actress who began as a child performer in West End theater and film. Born in Whitechapel and raised in Bethnal Green, she joined a 2009 staging of Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, then played Keira Knightley's character as a teenager in Never Let Me Go (2010). Early roles followed in Ways to Live Forever (2010), Intruders (2011) and Maleficent (2014), where she played Angelina Jolie's character as a teenager. She starred in Wildlike (2014), took a break, and returned for Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). Later films included Churchill (2017) and Army of the Dead (2021). On television she appeared in Ordeal by Innocence (2018) and Belgravia (2020), and she is known for Yellowjackets (2021), Fallout (2024) and Sweetpea (2024), also voicing Jinx in Arcane and Gwyn in Star Trek: Prodigy. Screen International named her one of its UK Stars of Tomorrow in 2010.