Ella Ballentine

Ella Ballentine Biography

Ella Ballentine (born 18 July 2001) is a young Canadian film, television and stage actress. Ella is known for her roles in diverse range of projects from musicals through television and film dramas to thrillers and horror. In 2015 she was selected to play the role of Anne Shirley, in a new retelling of the Canadian classic, Anne of Green Gables. She acted next to Martin Sheen as Matthew Cuthbert, and Sara Botsford as Marilla Cuthbert in the television movie adaptation directed by John Kent Harrison. In the same year Ella landed the role of Lizzy in writer/director, Bryan Bertino's horror, There Are Monsters. In this movie Ella co-starred with Zoe Kazan and Scott Speedman who she already worked with a couple of years back in The Captive.

In her first feature lead role, Ella co-starred with Laurence Fishburne and Thomas Jane in writer, Adam Alleca's directorial debut, Standoff.

Ella played the role of Jennifer in Atom Egoyan's feature, The Captive, an official selection for the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The same year Ella shared the screen with Susan Sarandon, Gil Bellows and Christopher Heyerdahl, in The Calling, directed by Jason Stone.

She has starred in television productions such as Clara's Deadly Secret a Lifetime movie, directed by Andrew C. Erin where she played Kate, one of the main characters, and in her film acting debut Baby's First Christmas for Hallmark Channel in 2012 directed by Jonathan Wright, and as Meddie Reno in Time Tremors.

Ella's stage roles include playing Little Cosette / Young Eponine in the Mirvish Productions 25th Anniversary Les Miserables production, and (2013/2014), and Felicia the leading role in Numbers, a 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival play for which she received rave reviews.

In 2013 Ella was invited to the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Gala as one of the "renowned Canadian performers enlivened the evening with dramatic readings of the five prize-nominated titles."

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Director
2016	Milton's Secret	Anna	Post-production	Barnet Bain
2016	The Monster aka There Are Monsters	Lizzy	Post-production	Bryan Bertino
2016	Against the Wild 2: Survive the Serengeti	Emma Croft		Richard Boddington
2015	Standoff	Bird		Adam Alleca
2014	The Calling	Rose Batten		Jason Stone
2014	The Captive	Jennifer		Atom Egoyan
2013	Clara's Deadly Secret	Kate		Andrew C. Erin
2013	Lunchbox Loser	Missy		Virginia Abramovich
2012	The Intergalactic Space Adventures of Cleo and Anouk	Anouk		Celeste Koon
2012	Baby's First Christmas	Karen Pendrell		Jonathan Wright
2011	Words

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Director
2016	L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables	Anne Shirley		John Kent Harrison
2014	Saving Hope	Rachel Stewart	Episode: The Other Side of Midnight	Peter Wellington
2014	Reign	Little Girl	Episode: The Plague	Fred Gerber
2013	Time Tremors	Medie Reno	S1 E1-7

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Refs.
2015			Ubisoft Toronto
2013	Time Tremors	Medie Reno

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Director
2013/2014	Les Misrables	Little Cosette / Young Eponine	Princess of Wales Theatre	Laurence Connor and James Powell
2012	Numbers	Felicia	Factory Theatre
2011	The Railway Children	Francis Perks	Roundhouse Theatre

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work
2013	Broadway World Awards	Best Featured Actress in a Musical	Les Misrables
	34th Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in Live Theater - Young Actress	Numbers
	34th Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries, Special or Pilot - Supporting Young Actress	Baby's 1st Christmas
2014	35th Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries, Special or Pilot - Young Actress	Clara's Deadly Secret
	35th Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in Live Theater - Young Actress	Les Misrables
	Dora Mavor Moore Award	Outstanding Performance - Ensemble in a Musical	Les Miserables

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