Biography
Ellie Bamber is an English actress. Born Eleanor Elizabeth Bamber on 2 February 1997 in Surrey, she trained at Eagle House School, Hawley Place School and Wellington College. She began acting on stage as a child, becoming the youngest member of the Players' Theatre Club at the age of 12 and appearing as Young Jenny in Trevor Nunn's production of Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory at 13. She received an Evening Standard Theatre Award nomination for Best Newcomer in a Musical for High Society and won third prize at the Ian Charleson Awards for her performance in The Lady from the Sea at the Donmar Warehouse in 2017.
Bamber's film roles include India Hastings in Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals (2016), Lydia Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), Louise Stahlbaum in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018), and Beatrice in Red, White & Royal Blue (2023). On television she has played Cosette in the BBC series Les Misérables (2018), Angela Knippenberg in The Serpent (2021), and Dove in the Disney+ series Willow (2022). She also appeared as Martine in The Musketeers (2014) and in The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019–2020).
