Biography
Ella Purnell is an Actress from England who made her debut in West End shows and motion pictures, including Maleficent, Intruders, and Never Let Me Go. Churchill, Army of the Dead, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children are some of her other films.
What year was Purnell’s born?
Born as Ella Summer Purnell, the Yellowjackets actress is 27 years old as of 17 September 2023. She was born in 1996 in London, United Kingdom.
Who are Purnell’s Parents? – Sibling
The actress was born into a family consisting of her father Simon Reid and mother Suzy Purnell and her brother Noa Reid. Suzy teaches yoga at the gym and participates in paddle sports at the Stratford Padel Club.
Purnell’s Education
She went to the City of London School for Girls, Bethnal Green Montessori, Forest School, and Young Actors Theatre Islington. In addition, she studied acting, singing, and dancing in weekly courses at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, where she was also represented by the school’s internal talent agency. By the time she was eighteen, she had completed her education, thought about giving up acting, and wondered about going to college to become a writer, therapist, or teacher.
Ella’s Thyroid – Illness
At thirteen, the actor of The Ordeal by Innocence had her first panic episode. She was breathing heavily and was quite unaccustomed to the sensation, which she could feel in her bones.
Purnell also accused the British educational system of depriving her of the knowledge necessary to comprehend and manage.The English actress’ anxiety became worse when she was unable to control it, and by the time she was 14 or 15, she had started self-harming.She used to cut her upper arms deep enough to create scars in order to feel relieved. These pursuits, nevertheless, were never a cure and did not put an end to the panic attacks.
Ella kept this information to herself due to the stereotype that attention-seeking behavior is bad.But today, Purnell is a YoungMinds ambassador and freely discusses her challenges with mental health.
Yellowjackets
In Yellowjackets on Showtime, she plays Jackie Taylor. Shauna’s closest friend and the dynamic, well-liked leader of the WHS Yellowjackets is Jackie Taylor. Her role on the team and the power dynamics have changed significantly since the plane accident.
On the surface, Jackie seems perfect. She is a gifted and intelligent girl with a captivating personality. She looks well, gets good grades, and shows concern for her friends and teammates. But Jackie’s leadership sometimes takes the wrong turn and she starts telling people what to do, including Shauna, which makes her feel helpless. Jackie is blind to other people’s activities because she makes snap decisions and doesn’t think about other people.
Following a collision, Jackie’s demeanor and standing within the gang deteriorate due to her inability to adjust to their new situation. She puts her own survival above all else and leaves one of their friends to burn to death. Rather than accepting responsibility, she places the blame elsewhere and declines to contribute to the group’s survival.
Jackie assigns Shauna the blame for her dismissive, domineering, and self-centered behavior, saying that Jackie never forced Shauna to do anything. But perhaps Jackie would have paid attention if Shauna had expressed her emotions. Jackie’s passing represents the group’s inevitable decline from human decency because she was unwilling to change and recognize that they would need to forgo accepted social norms in order to exist.
Fallout
She appeared as Lucy MacLean, a Vault Dweller in the American post-apocalyptic drama television series Fallout. The show centers on a retrofuturistic civilization, the aftermath of the Great War of 2077, and a nuclear exchange between the US and China. Unbeknownst to many survivors, fallout bunkers known as “Vaults” served as experimental and study spaces for sociological and psychological studies on Vault Dwellers. Lucy moves out of Vault 33 in 2296 to look for her father in a deserted area of Los Angeles. She encounters a renowned ghoul bounty hunter and a Brotherhood of Steel squire along the road; each has unsolved secrets from their pasts and unfinished business.
Arcane
She voiced Powder / Jinx in the adult animated steampunk action-adventure television series Arcane. Sisters Vi and Jinx get entangled in a growing dispute over divergent beliefs and mysterious technologies amid the growing turmoil between the wealthy, utopian metropolis of Piltover and the shady, downtrodden underbelly of Zaun.
Purnell’s Acting Credits
Ella has also starred in several films and television show. These are:
Movies
♦ 2021 – Army of the Dead
♦ 2018 – UFO
♦ 2017 – Churchill
♦ 2017 – Access All Areas
♦ 2016 – The Journey is the Destination
♦ 2016 – The Legend of Tarzan
♦ 2016 – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
♦ 2014 – Wildlike
♦ 2014 – Maleficent
♦ 2013 – Kick-Ass 2
♦ 2011 – Nice
♦ 2011 – Intruders
TV Shows
♦ 2024–present – Fallout
♦ 2024 – Invincible
♦ 2021–present – Star Trek: Prodigy
♦ 2021–present – Arcane
♦ 2021–2023 – Yellowjackets
♦ 2020 – Belgravia
♦ 2018–2019 – Sweetbitter
♦ 2018 – Ordeal by Innocence
♦ 2015 – Cyberbully