Step by step, our gallery is being fulfilled with all images related to Ella’s career, and we couldn’t be more prouder of what we have accomplished so far! Be welcome to visit the gallery and find out what has been added so far. Yellowjackets, one of Ella’s most recent and noticed projects, is finally finished with over 4000 images including stills, promoshoots and screencaps from all episodes Jackie was featured.

Television Work > 2021 – 2025. Yellowjackets

Hi everyone! Welcome back to Adoring Ella (Purnell), your best source for all things Ella Purnell since 2011. We would like to thank the previous owners for taking care of this site and for older content. Currently, Adoring Ella has a two person team, Ana and Álvaro and we aim to bring you all news and updates on Ella’s career.

As part of our continued goal to develop and create the biggest space of Ella photos on the internet, please bare with us as we keep updating tons of missing albuns.

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On March 19, Ella Purnell attended the Star Trek: Prodigy screening at BAFTA in London. Check out the pictures in the gallery;

Public Appearances > 2022 > March 19 – Screening of “Star Trek: Prodigy” at BAFTA in London

Hiii guys! I just wanted to let you know that I adopted this fansite today and that i’ll update everything for you guys. I hope you enjoy my stay. Thanks to The Fan Carpet who let me be here today! xx

Photoshoots > 2019 > Set 001 – Wonderland

FINDING ELLA. Today’s SBJCT GIRL fills us in on the quest for inspiration, staying present, not having a five year plan, and why we all need to be seen. Oh, and why pockets are important. Shot here exclusively in CHANEL by SBJCT’s newest photographic muse HELENA CHRISTENSEN, get to know Ella Purnell.

Photoshoots > 2019 > Set 005 – SBJCT Journal

Erin Walsh Hello dear Ella. It’s clear from this photo shoot that you are clearly Helena Christensen’s long lost daughter. Glad to have reunited you! Tell me a little bit about your beginnings, how you got to HERE. Where are you from? How did you get started in acting?

Ella Purnell Hah! Now there’s a compliment!! I’m honoured!  I guess it all happened very organically. I was born and raised in East London, UK. I was a very creative kid. Always acting, singing, or dancing. I loved reading, making things, writing my own books, and playing piano. I did a German commercial for the sweet ‘Toffifee’ when I was 9, and then my first film when I was 12. It all sort of snowballed from there really. Balancing school and work became the norm. I hit 18 and went travelling for a few months, which helped me figure out some stuff as I made that awkward transition from child actor to working adult. I started becoming more passionate about the creative process behind my work. I started becoming more selective about my roles. And I started developing interests outside of acting; music, poetry, mental wellbeing, travel, feminism, writing, fashion. I took some time off. I jumped back in. And here we are, 2019!

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Before I landed my dream job at Who What Wear nine years ago, I worked as a waitress at a fancy establishment in my hometown, a personal fact I contribute to the immediate kinship I feel with actress Ella Purnell upon speaking with her. To be fair, Purnell is not actually a waitress, though she does play one on the Starz series Sweetbitter, a role that allows us to bond for a full 10 minutes over the “mental” restaurant industry; the long hours, the romantic relationships that inevitably form, and of course, the drama. We LOVE the drama.

My phone call with Purnell takes place days after she wrapped a whirlwind NYC press trip (and this shoot!) for the second season of Sweetbitter, which premiered last Sunday. She is back in her hometown of London working on her next project, the corset drama Belgravia, which is set for 2020. It’s been nonstop for the actress, but despite the fact that it’s 10 p.m. her time and she is just getting home from a long day of filming, I’m greeted with a cheerful tone on the other end of the line. We dive straight into the important topics: fashion, career, and Sweetbitter and Tess, a character whose personal growth experiences on the show are coincidentally mirroring Purnell’s own. “It’s kind of funny how those things work out,” she tells me of the similarities between herself and her on-screen counterpart. This may be the year Tess happens to life, as Purnell puts it, but it’s also the year Purnell happens to life, revealing it’s been one full of intriguing career firsts. Oh, what a thrilling time to be the 22-year-old.

 Photoshoots > 2019 > Set 003 – Who What Wear

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Photoshoots > 2019 > Set 002 – Into The Gloss

“Every child actor has to go through the transition to adult actor. I was 11 when I got Never Let Me Go—I grew up pretty fast. As tempting as it is to just keep working, if you want to make the transition in a healthy, constructive way, it is important to step out. I had gotten to the point where I was not getting the kinds of scripts I wanted—it was the girlfriend of the main guy, or the one who was just there to be objectified—so I took some time off to recalibrate. It was only eight months, but it was the longest I’d gone without working since I was 10. Then I got Sweetbitter, and I fell in love with acting again. Not to be cheesy, but it completely changed my life—I moved from East London, where I had lived my whole life, to New York. Everything just flipped. Obviously I had a lot of acting experience, but I had grown up doing films—the whole industry of TV is new to me. The show could get picked up, it could not, you don’t get the script until the day before it shoots… It’s a completely different job. In the show, Tess is thrown into this restaurant industry and she has no idea what’s happening, and I was like that with TV, just trying to stay afloat.I ended up learning with her. A cliche, but life does imitate art. It’s funny how that happens, right?

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On January 22, Ella Purnell attended the Chanel fashion show in Paris, during the Fashion Week. Check out the pictures in the gallery :

 Public Appearances > 2019 > Chanel fashion show Haute-Couture S/S 2019 photocall in Paris – January 22

   

Photoshoots > 2018 > 001 – The Telegraph

 

Ella Purnell could feel it in her bones that something really bad was about to happen. She was hyperventilating and completely at a loss as to what was wrong. Her mum suggested that it was probably nothing to worry about, and said she might have drunk too much coffee.

In fact, she was having her first panic attack aged just 13.

“I couldn’t identify what the feeling was,” Purnell recalls. “I felt worried and scared but I didn’t know why.”

Purnell – who had recently filmed Never Let Me Go, playing a younger version of Keira Knightly – feels the British education system let her down, by not providing the tools she desperately needed to help her understand and cope.

“I felt low and down, but thought you could only have ‘depression’ if something really bad had happened in your life,” she says. “It hadn’t, so I thought ‘I can’t have that’. It’s is a big scary word and it didn’t feel like something I was allowed to have, because we never talked about it.”

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