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Ella Ballentine
Ella Ballentine in 2016
Born
Ella Hope Ballentine

(2001-07-18) July 18, 2001 (age 23)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
OccupationActor
Years active2011–present

Ella Ballentine (born July 18, 2001[1]) is a Canadian film, television and stage actress. Ella is known for her roles in a diverse range of projects from musicals through television and film dramas to thrillers and horror.

Ballentine started her acting carrier in the 2011 Toronto stage production of The Railway Children. She attended Mirvish Productions' open call at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, where hundreds of kids showed up for the opportunity to play one of the children roles.[2] The production was staged at the Roundhouse Park, a National Historic Site.[3] Ballentine played the role of the youngest daughter, Francis Perks.[4] She continued with her her stage career with the leading role of Felicia in Numbers,[5] a 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival play for which she received rave reviews.[6][7] In 2013 she returned to Mirvish Productions to play the role of Little Cosette / Young Eponine[8] in the highly acclaimed 25th Anniversary Les Miserables production.

Ballentine's film acting debut occurred in Baby's First Christmas[9] for Hallmark Channel in 2012 where she played Kate, one of the main characters. The made for TV feature was directed by Jonathan Wright, and featured Casper Van Dien, Rachel Wilson, Natalie Lisinska (who she reunited with in the Good Stars), and Noah Cappe. This movie was followed in 2013 by the role of Jennifer[10] in Atom Egoyan's feature, The Captive, an official selection for the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.[11] The same year Ella shared the screen with Susan Sarandon, Gil Bellows and Christopher Heyerdahl, in The Calling, a feature film directed by Jason Stone. Ballentine played Clara[9] in her next role with costars Emmanuelle Vaugier, Richard Ruccolo, Eva Link a Lifetime movie in 2013, Clara's Deadly Secret, directed by Andrew C. Erin.

In her first feature lead, Ballentine co-starred with Laurence Fishburne and Thomas Jane in writer, Adam Alleca's directorial debut, Standoff. The movie was shot on a farm in rural Ontario in 2014, and released in 2015. The same year Ballentine played the co-lead in a family feature, Against the Wild 2: Survive the Serengeti, directed by Richard Boddington. The movie originally intended as direct to video release but it opened in theatres across the United States[12].

Ballentine was selected to play the role of Anne Shirley[13] in a 2015 TV movie adaptation of the classic Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The first instalment named, L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables previewed in Canada on YTV, on February 15, 2016. PBS[14] purchased the rights of the movie for the Unites States. The movie also received distribution deals across Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan[15]. Subsequently YTV has ordered two more episodes[16] (The Good Stars, and Fire & Dew) that were both shot in 2016 with Ballentine as Anne, Martin Sheen as Matthew Cuthbert, Sara Botsford as Marilla Cuthbert, Julia Lelonde as Diana Barry, and Drew Haytaoglu as Gilbert Blyth. All three episodes were directed by John Kent Harrison.

Back in 2015 Ella also landed the role of Lizzy in writer/director, Bryan Bertino's horror, The Monster. In this movie Ella co-starred with Zoe Kazan, and Scott Speedman who she already worked with a couple of years back in the feature film, The Captive. The Monster became an independent success with many award nominations for the movie and also for Ballentine.

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."[17]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2011 Words
2012 The Intergalactic Space Adventures of Cleo and Anouk Anouk
2013 Lunchbox Loser Missy
2014 The Captive Jennifer
The Calling Rose Batten
2015 Standoff Bird
2016 Against the Wild 2: Survive the Serengeti Emma Croft
The Monster Lizzy aka. There Are Monsters
Milton's Secret Anna

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2012 Baby's First Christmas Karen Pendrell Television film
2013 'Clara's Deadly Secret Kate Television film
Time Tremors Medie Reno S1 E1-7'
2014 Reign Voland Girl Episode: "The Plague"
Saving Hope Rachel Stewart Episode: "The Other Side of Midnight"
2016 L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables Anne Shirley Television film
2017 Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
2017 Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew

Video games

  • Time Tremors (2013), as Medie Reno

Stage

Year Title Role Notes
2011 The Railway Children Francis Perks Roundhouse Theatre
2012 Numbers Felicia Factory Theatre
2013–2014 Les Misérables Little Cosette / Young Eponine Princess of Wales Theatre

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result
2013 34th Young Artist Awards Best Performance in Live Theater - Young Actress[18] Numbers Nominated
Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries, Special or Pilot - Supporting Young Actress[19] Baby's 1st Christmas Nominated
2014 35th Young Artist Awards Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries, Special or Pilot - Young Actress[20] Clara's Deadly Secret Nominated
Best Performance in Live Theater - Young Actress[21] Les Misérables Nominated
Dora Mavor Moore Award Outstanding Performance - Ensemble in a Musical[22] Les Miserables Nominated
2016 Joey Awards Young Actress - MOW[23] L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables Won
2017 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Best Supporting Actress[24] The Monster Pending
iHorror Awards Best Actress - Horror Film[25] Pending

References

  1. ^ "Ella Ballentine's twit". Twitter. July 18, 2016. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
  2. ^ Mirvish Youtube Video of Casting 11 March 2011, retrieved 03 March 2017.
  3. ^ Ouzounian, Richard."British Hit The Railway Children Coming to Toronto's Roundhouse" Toronto Star. 26 01 2011. Retrieved 03 03 2017
  4. ^ [1] Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 03 03 2017.
  5. ^ Numbers 2012, retrieved May 17, 2014
  6. ^ "Toronto Fringe Festival", Ontario Arts Review, retrieved May 7, 2014
  7. ^ "Numbers portrays the Holocaust through dance sequences", The Canadian Jewish News, July 9, 2012, retrieved July 16, 2012
  8. ^ "Les Miserables, Toronto: Cast and Creatives", Les Miserables Official Website, archived from the original on June 7, 2014, retrieved May 8, 2014 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ a b Kondoloy, Amanda (October 10, 2013). "LMN Presents New Original Movie 'Clara's Deadly Secret'". Retrieved March 23, 2015.
  10. ^ "Cannes Film Review: 'The Captive'", Variety online, retrieved May 17, 2014
  11. ^ "Cannes Unveils 2014 Official Selection Lineup", Variety online, retrieved May 8, 2014
  12. ^ "Against The Wild 2: Survive The Serengeti (2016) Release Dates - Movie Insider". Movie Insider. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  13. ^ "Anne of Green Gables: A glimpse of the filming of a much-loved story", CBC.ca, retrieved August 3, 2015
  14. ^ Mattern, Jessica."PBS Will Premiere a New 'Anne of Green Gables' Movie On Thanksgiving Day" "Country Living" 22 September 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  15. ^ "Breakthrough Entertainment Secures Global Licensing Representation for L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables""Breakthrough Entertainment" 17 October 2016. Retrieved 03 March 2017.
  16. ^ "Corus Entertainment Green Lights Second and Third Instalments of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of green Gables: Good Stars and Fire & Dew" Corus Entertainment 19 09 2016. Retrieved 03 03 2017.
  17. ^ "Hon. Hilary M. Weston and the Writers' Trust Present $60,000 Literary Award to Graeme Smith for Account of Afghan War", Writer's Trust of Canada, retrieved May 17, 2014
  18. ^ "34th Young Artist Awards!". Wikipedia. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  19. ^ "34th Young Artist Awards!". Wikipedia. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  20. ^ "35th Young Artist Awards!". Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  21. ^ "35th Young Artist Awards!". Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  22. ^ "awards database". tapa.ca. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  23. ^ "Joey Awards" (PDF). Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  24. ^ "Never mind Oscar, here's the 2017 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards Nominees Ballot!". FANGORIA®. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
  25. ^ "iHorror Awards". ihorror.com. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
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