Ellie Nash

Eleanor 'Ellie' Nash is a fictional university student on the Degrassi: The Next Generation television series. Since her first appearance on the show she has toned down her goth look and attitude. She is portrayed by Stacey Farber.

Season 2

Ashley's new friend

After Ashley's fallout with her friends, she met Ellie, Degrassi's newest goth girl. Ashley, relieved to have a friend again, was going to get her navel pierced with Ellie but chickened out at the last minute. Ellie then told her that they were best friends and that she didn't have to do anything to impress her. They have remained best friends ever since.

Dating Marco

Ellie had a crush on Marco Del Rossi and was sending him secret-admirer emails (inspired by Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies) but didn't think this was working, as it seemed as though Marco liked Hazel instead. However, once Marco found out that it was Ellie sending the emails, they started to date. Marco was a great guy in Ellie's eyes, but the problem in the relationship was that he acted more like her friend than her boyfriend. He subsequently realized that he was gay and came out to Ellie. She accepted it, but it was obvious that she was a little hurt because she really had feelings for Marco. However, Ellie decided to go along with the pretense of dating him, so that Marco could keep his secret safe. However, in Season 3, she eventually got tired of pretending and "broke up" with him, leading to his coming out. However, they remained close friends.

Season 3

Cutting

Ellie's father (a Colonel in the Canadian Army) was sent on a peacemaking mission in Afghanistan, leaving Ellie with her mother, who was battling alcoholism. Ellie's problems began to slowly mount; her grades were rapidly slipping, her interview with Caitlin Ryan went horribly, and Paige was giving her a hard time. This, combined with taking care of her mother - who was drunk virtually every night, became too much for Ellie and she began to cut herself. Paige later discovered this when she walked in on Ellie cutting herself in the girls' washroom. Although Paige and Ellie never liked each other, Paige told Ms. Sauve, the school's guidance counselor. She offered Ellie a shoulder to lean on and it seemed as though they called a truce.

Dating Sean

During a Saturday detention with Jimmy, Toby, and Hazel, (The Breakfast Club style), Ellie and Sean began talking and instantly bonded. They confided in each other on the school roof, with Sean admitting that he was the one stealing things around school. He asks her if she's scared of him and she replies no. She asked if he's freaked by her to which he replies no as well. She shows him her scars, asking if that freaks him out. He runs his fingers over her scars and takes her hand in his. Ellie secretly recorded this, as she was writing an article for Caitlin Ryan about the thefts going on at Degrassi, and as a result felt conflicted by this. However, while rummaging through her bag, her tape recorder fell out, playing Sean's admission for all to hear. Furious, Sean crushed the tape and stormed away, despite Ellie's insistence that she wasn't going to use his name. The next day, Ellie approached Sean at his locker and gave him the tape, telling him that there would be no story on the thefts. They then began dating.

Season 4

Moving in with Sean

Ellie's mother's drinking was getting worse, and this caused Sean to worry as he suspected that she may be cutting herself again, despite her denial of this. He offered Ellie to move in with him, which Ellie rejected, as she believed that she needed to take care of her mother. Two events however cause her to have a change of heart. First when her mom shows up drunk to "Parent-Teacher Night" and as a result humiliates her in front of her friends and teachers with her drunken antics, and later that night when she wakes up to the beeping of the fire alarm and the stench of smoke and discovered that her mother had left a pot burning on the stove before proceeding to get drunk and pass out. The flames spread to the curtains, destroying the kitchen and forcing Ellie and her mother to temporarily relocate. Ellie told her mom that she would stay at Ashley's, but instead moved in with Sean. However, her mother quickly discovered that Ellie had lied, leading to Ellie's revelation that her mother's drinking had made her cut. She then officially moved in with Sean, with her mother checking into rehab.

Sean returns to Wasaga Beach

Sean is considered a hero after the school shooting. However, while being interviewed, the reporter tells him that she previously interviewed Sean's parents. Then, the reporter offers to show him his parents' interview. He watches it and becomes furious because (according to Sean) his parents are putting on an act by saying that they miss him. Upset, he tells Ellie, Emma, and Jay to get into the car and he drives to Wasaga Beach to see his parents. Once he gets there, Sean and his parents talk vaguely and Sean leaves. Then the group goes to the beach, where Sean sees a kid who he hurt before he came to Degrassi and made deaf in one ear. After almost getting into a huge fight with the kid, Sean almost opens up to Ellie about his experience with the shooting. However, not wanting to deal with his feelings, he stops himself and hops on a jet-ski. Since he is upset, he nearly kills himself by drowning. However, the kid who he had made deaf saves him. After they make sure Sean is okay, Sean decides to go back to his parents house. There, he breaks down to his mother and father and decides the best thing for him is to stay. However, this means he will leave Ellie. Ellie and Sean had just recently moved in together and are in love. This is the conversation when Sean tells everyone that he is staying in Wasaga Beach.

Moving back in with her mom

Now that Sean had returned home to Wasaga Beach to live with his parents, Ellie was left to live alone. When she found it hard to pay her rent, she sought out a way to earn some cash. With the help of Marco, Ellie learned to play a new card game, which she practiced at and eventually became very skilled with. After winning $10 from a game with Craig, Jimmy, and Alex, Ellie thought about playing Dylan's hockey team with Alex for more cash. When Ellie realized Alex was playing for high stakes, she became hesitant about keeping her trust in Alex. But when Alex surprised Ellie with a game winning hand, Ellie learned a lesson in trust and in gambling. Afterward, Ellie realized that what she was doing wasn't the best way to earn her rent money. When she finally proved to herself that her mother was sober and not drunk, she decided to move back in with her, as they were both tired of being alone.

Season 5

Crushing on Craig

While Ashley was away in England, Craig and Ellie bonded over the summer, becoming best friends. Ellie replaced Spinner as the drummer in Craig's band, Downtown Sasquatch. This eventually evolved into a crush on Ellie's part shortly following Ashley's email, which stated that she was breaking up with Craig and staying in England with her new boyfriend. Craig, however, chose to get back together with Manny instead, resulting in Manny being uncomfortable with Craig's friendship with Ellie while also leading Ellie to be noticeably and snarkily jealous of Craig's relationship with Manny. Craig eventually moved to Vancouver in order to pursue his dream of becoming a musician, still keeping a long-distance relationship with Manny.

Helping Jimmy

With Craig and Manny dating, Ellie became friends with Jimmy, who discovered that he was a talented artist and that he enjoyed expressing himself through art, especially after the shooting. She spent time with him, showing him art exhibits and generally helping him understand that he didn't have to follow through with basketball. Jimmy started to crush on Ellie (thus resulting in his breakup with Hazel) but was ultimately rejected when Ellie told him that she only liked him as a friend.

Season 6

Dating Jesse

While Ellie's off attending college, she joins her on-campus newspaper committee, the Core. She begins dating her editor, Jesse.

Craig returns

When Craig returns for a visit from Vancouver, both Manny and Ellie realize there's something strange about the new "rock star" Craig. When Manny finds out that Craig is taking cocaine, she begins to take it too, believing that it will strengthen their bond together. Unlike Craig, Manny finds that she didn't really like it. When Ellie finds some of the drugs on Craig's floor in his room, she immediately suspects something, but is lead otherwise when Craig shifts all of the blame to Manny. This leads Ellie to feel obligated to free Craig of Manny's bad influence. Meanwhile, her boyfriend Jesse is furious with her because she's too blind and lovesick to see that Craig was seriously deceiving her. After Manny dumps Craig for choosing drugs over her, she reveals the news to Ellie. She also tells Ellie that Craig lied to her about who the drugs really belonged to and that he had been taking them since he arrived back in Toronto and is clearly an addict. Ellie becomes extremely angry at Craig, and confronts him about the issue. Before Craig returned to Vancouver, he told Ellie that he really loved her and kissed her, and she kissed him back. But when Craig asks her if he can continue his habit, she curses him out for playing with her emotions and lying to her.

Making peace

After Craig's episode with cocaine, Ellie feels guilty for blaming Manny for doing the drugs. At the party where J.T. is killed, Ellie goes up to Manny and apologizes to her for believing Craig's lies and the two are on good terms now.

Troubles with Jesse

Ellie is so worried about what Jesse is going to think once he finds out she kissed Craig, her long time crush. She decides not to tell him until Ashley convices her to do so. Ellie does and she finds out that she is not the only one who been unfaithful, Jesse had also cheated on her with a girl he met at a bar. After being initially angry with him for receiving a "guilt gift", she has a conversation with Jimmy about love, which leads her to forgive Jesse. Later in Love My Way, Ellie and Jesse are unhappy together and the two break up.

Hook Up with Jesse

In Don't You Want Me Part 2, Ellie and Marco hang out at a club. Then she is surprised when Jesse is at the club too. Ellie is then happy. Later on in the episode, Marco knocks on Ellie's door and walks in on Ellie and Jesse in her bed together, revealing that they were back together.

Season 7

Back with Jesse?

It has been shown that Ellie and Jesse are indeed back together. According to a commericial of whats to come, one of the things is Jesse cheating on Ellie again, surprisingly enough, it's with Caitlin Ryan.

Relationships

• Marco Del Rossi
  • Start Up: (Careless Whisper) (214)
  • Broke Up: (Pride, Part 1) (304)
    • Reason: Marco is actually gay, and Ellie is tired of pretending to be his girlfriend.

• Sean Cameron
  • Start Up: (Take on Me) (316)
  • Broke Up: (Back in Black) (409)
    • Reason: Sean moves back to Wasaga Beach.

• Jesse Stefanovic
  • Start Up: (True Colors) (603)
  • Broke Up: (Love My Way) (616)
    • Reason: Both Jesse and Ellie are unhappy and frequently fighting.

• • Second Relationship:
    • Start Up: Don't You Want Me, Part Two (619)