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Ella Purnell Biography

Ella Purnell is an English actress who started her career as a child actress on the West End and in the films Never Let Me GoIntrudersWildlike, and Maleficent. She stars as Lucy MacLean in the post-apocalyptic TV series Fallout, which premiered on Prime Video on April 11, 2024.

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Ella Purnell Height

Purnell stands at a rough height of 5 feet and 5 inches.

Ella Purnell Age

Purnell is 28 years old. She was born Ella Summer Purnell on September 17, 1996, in the Whitechapel area of East London. Purnell annually celebrates her birthday on September 17th.

Personal Life

Ella Purnell Family and Relatives

Purnell has three younger half-brothers on her paternal side. Regardless, she keeps information regarding her family and relatives away from the public eye. However, we will update this information once it’s available to the public.

Is Ella Purnell Dating? (Who Is Her Boyfriend?)

Purnell is in a relationship with Max Bennet Kelly. On February 14, 2024, she posted a picture of them together on her Instagram account and wished him a happy Valentine’s Day on her Instagram account; “happy valentines baby 🌹” her Instagram post on February 14, 2014 read.

Max is a musical artist who starred in the short films, Junk Male and Respect the Duck. His music can be found on platforms like YouTube, Apple Music, and Spotify. He celebrates his birthday every January 11th as revealed in Purnell’s Instagram post on January 11, 2023, captioned “Happy Birthday to my love 🌹 you are the best thing to ever happened to me. X

Ella Purnell Education

Purnell studied at the City of London School for Girls, Bethnal Green Montessori, Forest School, and the Young Actors Theatre Islington. In addition to that, she had weekly acting, singing, and dance classes at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. The institution’s in-house talent agency represented her.

Professional Life

Ella Purnell Net Worth

Purnell has garnered a net worth ranging from $1 million to $3 million during her successful career as an actress.

Ella Purnell Career

Purnell started her career as a child actress on the West End and in the films Never Let Me GoIntrudersWildlike, and Maleficent. On TV, she starred in BBC’s Ordeal by Innocence, Sweetbitter, Belgravia, and Yellowjackets. Also, she has had roles in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Churchill, and Army of the Dead. Purnell voiced Jinx in Netflix’s Arcane and Gwyn in Star Trek: Prodigy. She is scheduled to voice Kate Ward in Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas and play the role of Rhiannon Lewis in Sweetpea.

Ella Purnell Eyes

Purnell has large hazel eyes with thick eyebrows.

Movies and TV Shows

Ella Purnell Maleficent

Purnell played the role of the teen Maleficent in the 2014 fantasy film, Maleficent. Maleficent is a powerful fairy living in the Moors who falls in love with a human peasant boy named Stefan. Over time, their bond weakens as she becomes the protector of Moors and his ambitions of kingship overshadow his love for her.

Tensions escalate when Stefan is offered the chance to become king and marry Princess Leila on the condition that he kills Maleficent. Unable to bring himself to kill her, he drugs her and cuts off her wings to present to the king as proof of his successfully killing her. This betrayal antagonizes Maleficent, driving her towards a path of vengeance. When Stefan’s daughter(Aurora) is born, Maleficent casts a curse, prophesying that on Aurora’s sixteenth birthday, she will fall into an eternal slumber after pricking her finger on a spinning wheel’s spindle.

Ella Purnell Army Of The Dead

Purnell played the role of Kate Ward in the post-apocalyptic zombie film, Army of the Dead in 2021. Kate is one of the survivors of the zombie apocalypse who joins her estranged father, Scott Ward, on a mission to reclaim $200 million from zombie-infested Las Vegas. She joins the mission in hopes of locating her friend, Geeya, who went missing somewhere in the city. She will voice Kate Ward in Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas.

Ella Purnell Fallout

Purnell stars as the primary protagonist Lucy MacLean in the post-apocalyptic TV series, Fallout, which premiered on Prime Video on April 11, 2024. The series is set in an apocalyptic alternate timeline of Earth after a nuclear exchange. These events lead to the rise of a retrofuturistic civilization where there’s a struggle for resources. In addition, the survivors of the nuclear exchange find refuge in underground shelters called Vaults which are made to protect them from nuclear ruin. 219 years later, Lucy, a courageous young woman, leaves her shelter in Vault 33 to venture into the dangerous wasteland of a ravaged Los Angeles. She stars alongside;

  • Aaron Moten
  • Walton Goggins
  • Kyle MacLachlan
  • Moisés Arias
  • Xelia Mendes-Jones

Ella Purnell Other Films and TV Shows

During her career, Purnell has starred in a couple of movies such as;

  • Ways to Live Forever
  • Cyberbully
  • Kick-Ass 2
  • Ordeal by Innocence
  • The Legend of Tarzan
  • The Journey is the Destination
  • Access All Areas
  • UFO
  • Invincible

Ella Purnell Social Media

Purnell has active social media platforms i.e. Facebook and Instagram. She has a following of over 65K on Facebook and a following of over 565K on Instagram.