Ella Hunt is a British actress and singer. She’s best recognized for her role in Anna and the Apocalypse (2017), for which she received a Scottish BAFTA nomination.
Other prominent acting projects she’s invoved in include Cold Feet (2016–2017) and Dickinson (2019–2021).
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Career
Ella Hunt started her career in the entertainment industry as a child actress in 2011 when she debuted in the movie Intruders.
After that, this Taurus actress began to expand her career as an actress by acting together with Anna Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012), a periodical movie that was adapted from a classic novel by Victor Hugo.
Two years later, in 2014, Ella continued to be an actress in an independent movie, Robot Overlords.
Since she debuted as an actress, she majorly appeared in movies, but it changed five years later after she debuted in Intruders.
In 2016, she made a debut appearance as a TV actress by becoming a character of Ellie Marsden in the series of ITV, Cold Feet.
She got her career breakthrough from that series, which gained her more popularity.
But her real popularity came from her character as Anna Shepherd for the movie Anna and the Apocalypse (2018).
That role made Ella won as an ensemble award for the 2018 Toronto After Dark Film Festival.
Later, she continued her acting career by appearing in the movie Summer Night (2019), Kat and the Band (2020), and also the series Dickinson (2019-2021) with Hailee Steinfeld.
In 2020, Ella debuted as a singer by releasing Magpie, which was followed by her next single, Holding On (2021).
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Profile
- Real Name: Ella Hunt
- Stage Name: Ella Hunt
- Nickname: Ella
- Birthday: April 29, 1998
- Birthplace: Westminster, London, England
- Zodiac Sign: Taurus
- Nationality: English
- Religion: –
- Profession: Actress, Singer
- Education: Millfield Preparatory School, Blundell’s School
- Hobbies: Hiking, Traveling, Skiing, Hot Air Ballooning
- Facebook: –
- Twitter: @EllaHunt
- Instagram: @ellahunt
- TikTok: –
- YouTube: –
Height, Weight, & Physical Appearance
- Height: 165 cm (5’5″)
- Weight: number Kg (number lbs)
- Blood Type: –
- Hair Color: Dark brown
- Eye Color: Hazel
- Body Measurements: 33-24-33 (Bust -33, Waist -24, and Hips -33 inches)
- Shoe Size: 7 (US)
- Dress Size: number (US)
Family
- Father: David Grob
- Mother: Louise Hunt
- Brother: William, Arthur
- Sister: –
Boyfriend & Dating History
Thomas Barlett
She’s in relationship with Thomas, who’s The Gloaming’s pianist, composer and producer. It isn’t really known when they started dating, but their relationship has survived the pandemic.
Not much detail is known further about their relationship.
Net Worth
Multiple sources estimated Ella’s net worth to be around $1 million. Her primary source of income appeared to be her career as a professional actress.
Facts
- Ella’s mother works as an actress and sculptor.
- Her father is an art dealer.
- Since childhood, Ella Hunt was surrounded by art lovers.
- She grew up on a farm in North Devon, England.
- She has Swiss descent.
- She was discovered by an agent when she was studying at school at Millfield.
- She often travels with her family.
- She loves to spend her time with her close friends.
- Some of her favorite actors are Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, and Johnny Depp.
- Ella’s favorite actresses are Zendaya, Margot Robbie, and Kristen Stewart.
- She loves to eat pizza, french fries, and burgers.
- Red, green, and white are her favorite colors.
- Ella Hunt loves to go to Paris as her favorite destination.
- Her ideal type is…
- Her net worth is around $1 million.
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Movies
- Master (2022), as Cressida
- Kat and the Band (2019), as Kat Malone
- Summer Night (2019), as Dana
- The More You Ignore Me (2018), as Alice
- Anna and the Apocalypse (2018), as Anna Shepherd
- Robot Overlords (2014), as Alexandra
- Les Misérables (2012), as turning woman
- Intruders (2011), as Ella Foster
Drama Series
- Dickinson (Apple TV+ | 2019-2021), as Sue Gilbert
- Lore (Amazon Prime Video | 2018), as Lady Margit
- Endeavour (ITV | 2017), as Emma Corr
- Cold Feet (ITV | 2016-2017), as Ellie Marsden
Singles
- Holding On (2021)
- Magpie (2020)
Nominations
- British Academy Scotland Awards 2018 – Best Film Actress – Anna and the Apocalypse
Awards
- Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2018 – Best Ensemble Cast – Anna and the Apocalypse
Quotes
“I am trying to think back as a child and my early moments of creativity because I was so born into it. […] I was born into a household where if there were any issues, the solution was creativity.”
“It was such a part of my upbringing, earlier than I can remember that I don’t have one conscious memory of, I am doing art! This is what I want to do.”
“I have a memory of being in the car, on my way home from school, and my mom asked my older brother and I what we wanted to do as adults. I don’t know why she asked that question but she did, my older brother went, I think I’ll be an artist, and I was like, I think I’ll be an artist, too.”
“I had parents who infused in me from such a young age that I could do anything that I wanted to do and that a career in the arts was just as meaningful as a more predictable career path.”
“I feel super lucky for that because I know so many kids who loved [art] just as much and were just as good, or far better, who were just conditioned from a young age that it probably wasn’t going to be possible for them to do that.”
“If COVID-19 has taught us anything it’s just how easily redundant we can all be made.”
“Imagination and creativity have become so essential during these times of lockdown because maybe we aren’t going out to work. How do we occupy ourselves and give ourselves a sense of purpose and so many people’s solutions have been creativity.”
“I went through a period of being quite depressed and in that period I really turned to art and songwriting. I spent most of the days in my bedroom writing poetry and songs.”
“I spent a lot of hours writing songs trying to channel my feelings about loss and anxiety.”
“A pivotal moment for me was making Anna and the Apocalypse when I was 18.”
“With Anna I went into it incredibly open-minded: this is a tiny indie movie, I doubt anyone is going to see this but I really believe in this and I am excited to do it. I had so much it was lovely icing on the cake for the hard work that the whole team put in to make that character.”
” In my career, I have played two characters who have gone through miscarriages. In The More You Ignore Me, my character went through a miscarriage on screen where as on Dickinson, we see the after effects of it and how Sue carries her pain and grief throughout the season. It was really striking to me how many of the women around me whether in production or family and friends who have been through them.”
“It is such a joy to work on a show where all of the female characters—I would say all of the characters in the show—are so three dimensional and they are not just strong but they are flawed and they all have their own internal intricacies and difficulties that they struggle with and strive towards, which is really special.”
“In terms of my experience of working on the show and what it has given to me as a woman, I just feel super empowered by working on the show. I have gotten to do so much study on women’s history and with this season in particular I did a lot of study on salonnières, which are female hostesses through the ages and the social roles they play in women’s liberation.”
“I take music equally as seriously as acting.”
“Music is so comforting to me that it’s sort of a safe place that I would keep from people.”
“I do want to do music on a professional level. I play the piano and I have been working on an album for the past year or so. I would say expect music to be released in the next year or so.”
“I read a lot I try to always have a book going. I always feel charged by reading a great book. I also surround myself with artists and people I admire and who remind me that having creative lulls and not constantly making is alright and that we all go through it.”
“I’m a bit of a nerd and would have loved to have found a moment for university. But that’s kind of the great thing about Dickinson. I get to study, to a ridiculous degree, the subject of Emily Dickinson and the world around her. It’s a history class, an English literature class and a sociology class all in one.”
““It’s taken me moving to New York and shooting a queer, female-driven show to take pride in the bizarre sides of myself, the sides of myself that I love the most and make me feel most true to who I was as a small child.”
“Maybe that combination of being away from England and working on a show about a female poet who wasn’t understood in her time, such an outwardly queer show that glorifies queerdom, made it less scary to enjoy those elements in myself and explore it in a way that I might not have done if I hadn’t got the show.”
“I love the term queer. I don’t think it is specifically about sexuality, I see it as a mindset and feeling empowered in the bizarre and the strange sides of myself. I think queer is a beautiful word in that sense. It’s an attitude. That’s how I identify to my friends in New York.”
“If I was a white rich girl like Sue, and if I was in an unhappy marriage, I imagine I definitely would have been inclined to throw rages and try and get stimulating artists around me.”
“The constraints on women at the time were so intense – women were so oppressed – I don’t know how much I’d be able to tap into the outspoken, queer, bizarre sides of myself. But it all depends on class. I love that this season really looks at class and race and the impact they have on our ability to use our voice and be the person we want to be.”
“In music, I am the director, the producer, the show runner. I get to be all of those things as much or as little as I want. And I can bring my own community into the music that I make as well.”
“My relationship to [New York City] is one that gets deeper and deeper. I’m finding that people are almost kinder now, more compassionate, in these very hard, strange times, I think the city has come alive in a different way.”
“I’m very hopeful that the pandemic means that artists can come back to the city. I hope it means a drop in prices so that the city can have a rebirth of that artistic dreamland of the 1980s and 1990s.”
Ella Hunt is such a sweetheart. She is talented, amazing, and inspiring. Well done, Ella!