"I’ve acted for as long as I can remember, really."
Ella Summer Purnell (born 17 September 1996) is an English actress.
She's best known for her roles as Emma Bloom in 2016's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, as Dolce in Kick-Ass 2 and as Tess in the coming of age series Sweetbitter. She has also done voice acting, most notably voicing Jinx in Arcane and Gwyn in Star Trek: Prodigy.
Selected filmography:
- Never Let Me Go (2010) as young Ruth
- Ways to Live Forever (2010) as Kayleigh
- Kick-Ass 2 (2013) as Dolce
- Maleficent (2014) as teen Maleficent
- Cyberbully (2015) as Megan
- The Legend of Tarzan (2016) as young Jane Porter
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) as Emma Bloom
- Churchill (2017) as Helen Garrett
- Sweetbitter (2018-2019) as Tess
- Ordeal by Innocence (2018) as Hester Argyll
- Belgravia (2020) as Lady Maria Grey (5 episodes)
- Army of the Dead (2021) as Kate Ward
- Star Trek: Prodigy (2021-) as Gwyn
- Arcane (2021-) as Powder/Jinx
- Yellowjackets (2021) as Jackie
- Fallout (2024-) as Lucy MacLean
- Sweetpea (TBA) as Rhiannon Lewis
Tropes & Trivia about her works:
- Fake American: Many of her roles so far have had her playing Americans and doing so convincingly enough that some fans are actually surprised to find out she is really from England.
- Time-Shifted Actors: She's played the younger version of adult characters several times, such as Ruth in Never Let Me Go (Keira Knightley), Maleficent in the eponymous film (Angelina Jolie) and Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan (Margot Robbie). Notably, her character on Yellowjackets does not appear as an adult, despite the series featuring several instances of this. And Arcane has her doing the inverse with her playing the older version of Jinx.
