Ellie Bamber

Eleanor Elizabeth Bamber (born 2 February 1997) is an English actress. In 2018, she won third prize at the Ian Charleson Awards for her 2017 performance as Hilde in The Lady from the Sea at the Donmar Warehouse. She was in Tom Ford's feature film Nocturnal Animals and the BBC One television series, Les Misérables, as Cosette.

Bamber was born in Surrey, England, and has a younger brother, Lucas. She attended Hawley Place School. She also attended Eagle House and Wellington College, having been awarded full Drama Scholarships at both.

Theatre

At the age of 12, she became the youngest member of the Players' Theatre Club. At the age of 13 she was chosen from by Sir Trevor Nunn to play the role of ‘Young Jenny’ in his production of Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory. After roles in TV and films, she returned to musical theatre when she was selected for a lead role as the disruptive teenager ‘Dinah Lord’ in High Society at The Old Vic, London. Directed by Maria Friedman, this was the last production under Kevin Spacey’s tenure as Artistic Director. Following the run, in November 2015, she was nominated for the ‘Evening Standard Theatre Award’ for ‘Best Newcomer in a Musical’. In 2017 she was Hilde in The Lady from the Sea, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah at the Donmar Warehouse, and her performance won third prize at the Ian Charleson Awards.

Television and film

Her film debut was in The Falling (2014). In the same year she starred as Lydia Bennett, the youngest of the Bennett sisters in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, starring alongside Lily James, Douglas Booth, Sam Riley and Matt Smith. In 2015, she was chosen as one of the British Film Institute and Screen Daily – Screen Stars of Tomorrow.

In 2016, she appeared in Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals, playing the daughter of Jake Gyllenhaal and Isla Fisher's characters, in a film also starring Amy Adams. Also that year, she filmed the feature film Extracurricular Activities. In 2017 she also filmed High Resolution based on the book Taipei by Tao Lin.

In 2017, Bamber appeared in the music video for Shawn Mendes' song "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back".

In 2018 Ellie was in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, alongside Keira Knightley and Morgan Freeman. In 2019 she plays Cosette in BBC 1 television series Les Misérables with Dominic West and Olivia Colman. She will be seen in the forthcoming feature film The Seven Sorrows of Mary where she plays the lead role of Mary. Then BBC 1 television series, The Trial of Christine Keeler as Mandy Rice-Davies alongside Sophie Cookson and James Norton.

Bamber dated actor Richard Madden from 2017; the couple reportedly broke up in January 2019.