Ella Summer Purnell (born September 17, 1996) is an English actress. She began her career as a child, making her film debut in Never Let Me Go (2010), with Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Isobel Meikle-Small, Charlie Rowe, Sally Hawkins, Charlotte Rampling, Nathalie Richard, Domhnall Gleeson, and Andrea Riseborough.
Other films in the early 2010s include Ways to Live Forever (2010), with Robbie Kay, Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, and Greta Scacchi; Intruders (2011), with Clive Owen, Carice van Houten, Daniel Brühl, Pilar López de Ayala, Izan Corchero, Kerry Fox, and Héctor Alterio; Kick-Ass 2 (2013), with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Jim Carrey; Wildlike (2013), with Bruce Greenwood, Brian Geraghty, Nolan Gerard Funk, and Ann Dowd; and Maleficent (2014), with Angelina Jolie, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, and Lesley Manville.
Films in the mid to late 2010s include The Journey is the Destination (2016), with Ben Schnetzer, Kelly Macdonald, Sam Hazeldine, and Maria Bello; an uncredited role in David Yates’s The Legend of Tarzan (2016), with Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, and Christoph Waltz; Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016), with Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O’Dowd, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, Judi Dench, and Jackson; Churchill (2017), with Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, and James Purefoy; Access All Areas (2017), with Edward Bluemel, Georgie Henley, Jordan Stephens, Nigel Lyndsay, Jo Hartley, and Jason Flemyng; and UFO (2018), with Alex Sharp, Gillian Anderson, David Strathairn, and Benjamin Beatty.
Films in the 2020s include Army of the Dead (2021), with Dave Bautista, Omari Hardwick, Ana de la Reguera, Theo Rossi, Matthias Schweighöfer, Nora Arnezeder, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tig Notaro, Raúl Castillo, Huma Qureshi, and Garret Dillahunt.
On TV, she has starred in series such as Ordeal by Innocence (2018), with Bill Nighy, Anthony Boyle, Anna Chancellor, Morven Christie, Crystal Clarke, Christian Cooke, Alice Eve, Matthew Goode, Eleanor Tomlinson, and Luke Treadaway; Belgravia (2020), with Philip Glenister, Tamsin Greig, Richard Goulding, Emily Reid, Eve, Paul Ritter, Saskia Reeves, Bronagh Gallagher, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Jeremy Neumark Jones, James Fleet, Diana Hardcastle, Adam James, Tara Fitzgerald, Ella Purnell, Serena Evans, and Jack Bardoe; Yellowjackets (2021–present), with Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Simone Kessell, Lauren Ambrose, and Sarah Desjardins; Fallout (2024–present), with Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias, Xelia Mendes-Jones, Walton Goggins, and Frances Turner; and Sweetpea (2024–present), with Nicôle Lecky, Jon Pointing, Calam Lynch, Jeremy Swift, Dustin Demri-Burns, Leah Harvey, and Camille Coduri.
She has also voiced Jinx in Arcane (2021–2024), with Hailee Steinfeld, Kevin Alejandro, Katie Leung, Jason Spisak, Toks Olagundoye, Harry Lloyd, JB Blanc, Reed Shannon, Mick Wingert, Amirah Vann, Ellen Thomas, and Brett Tucker; and Gwyndala in Star Trek: Prodigy (2021–2024), with Brett Gray, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, Dee Bradley Baker, Jimmi Simpson, John Noble, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Robert Picardo, Jameela Jamil, and Wil Wheaton.
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Never Let Me Go (2010) – directed by Mark Romanek
- Ways to Live Forever (2010) – directed by Gustavo Ron
- Intruders (2011) – directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
- Candy (2011) – directed by Kinga Burza – short
- Kick-Ass 2 (2013)* – directed by Jeff Wadlow
- Wildlike (2014) – directed by Frank Hall Green
- Maleficent (2014) – directed by Robert Stromberg
- Cyberbully (2015) – directed by Ben Chanan – TV movie
- The Legend of Tarzan (2016) – directed by David Yates – uncredited
- The Journey Is the Destination (2016) – directed by Bronwen Hughes
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) – directed by Tim Burton
- Churchill (2017) – directed by Jonathan Teplitzky
- Access All Areas (2017) – directed by Bryan Higgins
- Ordeal by Innocence (2018) – directed by Sandra Goldbacher – miniseries
- Right Place Wrong Tim (2018) – directed by Eros V – short
- UFO (2018) – directed by Ryan Eslinger
- Oksijan (2018) – directed by Edward Watts – short
- Sweetbitter (2018-2019) – created by Stephanie Danler – TV series
- Belgravia (2020) – directed by John Alexander – miniseries
- Army of the Dead (2021) – directed by Zack Snyder
- Toast (2023) – directed by Douglas Riggs – short
- Junk Male (2023) – also director, co-writer – short
- The Scurry (202-) – directed by Craig Roberts
- Viqueens (2026) – directed by Harold Zwart
- The Time We Met (202-) – directed by Nick Lieberman
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