Eleanor Ellie Elizabeth Bamber was born on February 2, 1997. She acted on stage from an early age - becoming the youngest ever member of The London Player's Theatre, before playing Young Jenny in Sir Trevor Nunn's Aspects of Love. She then went into TV and film and in quick succession she was offered Lydia Bennett, in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. READ MORE.
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The Seven Sorrows of Mary (2020) Ellie as Mary
Inspired by true events, the harrowing story follows Mary, a 21 year old American exchange student, who is about to finish up her year abroad in Brazil. While out for a night on the town with her boyfriend Gabriel, they are both kidnapped. Gabriel is repeatedly beaten while Mary is raped by her captors during a six-hour abduction nightmare. After she gets away Mary is forced to choose between seizing a chance at freedom and letting Gabriel be killed, or returning to her brutal attackers.
A man's search for a stolen artifact leads him to the haunted town filled with Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, Depression-era private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women.
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In February, the fashion world one of its most beloved figures as Karl Lagerfeld passed away at the age of 85. Lagerfeld had served as creative director of Chanel since 1983, and up until his death he was still churning out around 14 collections per year, in addition to pursuing his career as a photographer and maintaining his role as the creative director of Fendi, which he first took on back in 1965. (Not to mention running his own namesake label.) During that time, Lagerfeld amassed a devoted following that included everyone from Rihanna to Cindy Crawford (and her daughter Kaia Gerber, for that matter). Here, six of his muses from over the years pay tribute to the late, great designer.
Chanel Haute Couture dress and shoes. Photograph by Angelo Pennetta
It wasnât her first time portraying the iconic character from Victor Hugoâs iconic 1862 novel.
âI actually played Cosette in the school musical,â says the 22-year-old British actress, a frequent face in the front row at Chanel, who shares most of her screen time in the series with costar Dominic West. âSheâs really this iconic representation of hope.â
While many viewers are familiar with the musical version of the story, the miniseries presents a more fleshed out adaptation of the bookâs various characters and plot lines. âI mean, the bookâs massive. There are so many stories and little details that most audiences havenât seen before because theyâve just seen the musical,â says Bamber.
Thereâs been a literary through line in Bamberâs career thus far. Her first major on-screen role was in Tom Fordâs âNocturnal Animals,â an adaptation of Austin Wrightâs novel âTony and Susan,â and she also starred in a 2018 adaptation of Tao Linâs novel âTaipei.â For the voracious reader, itâs been an opportunity to delve deeper into character study.
âIâm always reading. Iâve loved reading since I was young, and Iâve always loved sinking my teeth into a different world, especially one that you begin to create in your head,â she says. âI had the privilege to do that with âPride and Prejudice and Zombies,â and with Cosette,â she says. âI feel like the books that Iâm reading at any given time will really help me with my work, because itâs just more characters, and you see new people while youâre reading,â she says.
Despite her busy shooting schedule, she recently finished Sally RooneyâsâNormal People,â and is onto Elif BatumanâsâThe Idiotâ; both are coming-of-age stories. And yes, she read the entirety of Hugoâs tome, all 1,400-ish pages.
âI actually broke the book into sections to make it a bit more manageable, which Iâve never done with a book before. Itâs probably not a good thing to do, but I was trying to carry it around while I was traveling,â says Bamber.
The show is similarly broken up, into six hourlong episodes. âHugo goes so far into Cosetteâs backstory â itâs unreal. I mean, the amount of information I had to play with was such a big portion of how I then created Cosette, because I really wanted her to be as faithful to Hugoâs novel as I possibly could, and obviously thereâs a script, but we can work with both of them. Itâs a real gift to have a book to work alongside with.â
While still very early in her career, Bamber has taken on several challenging roles, and her next projects, which take cues from real events, are no exception. In âThe Seven Sorrows of Mary,â her character is tasked with escaping a violent kidnapping situation abroad; for âThe Trial of Christine Keeler,â which she wrapped in early April, she portrays Keelerâs friend Mandy Rice-Davies. The upcoming BBC miniseries explores the Profumo scandal and its implications from the womenâs point of view: That they were used as scapegoats for the wrongdoings of men in high power.
âThe interesting thing about that is that they were living in a time where men were allowed to sleep around, but women, if they did so, were accused of being prostitutes and named all kinds of awful names,â says Bamber, who attributes a shift in public perception â and certainly a different perspective on the situation when considering it in 2019 â to the two women.
âI think now when people see âThe Trial of Christine Keeler,â I just think and hope it will mean that people arenât so quick to judge and put labels on these two young women,â says Bamber. âAnd try to understand the situation they were in, because they were both so young. Mandy was 18, and to be thrown to the lions at that age is an incredible thing to have to go through.â
And like Cosette, Bamber views Rice-Daviesâ path as ultimately representative of hope: She leveraged the media attention for success and fortune.
âSo she takes this horrible situation where sheâs named a prostitute and a poor girl, and she just kind of drives on,â adds Bamber. âAnd itâs just amazing to see like a woman who wasnât defined by that one situation and who just then lives her life afterwards.â
In addition to the interview, Ellie’s new portraits were made for publication. The photos were taken by Olivia Thompson and you can see them by clicking on the photos below;
Ellie gave an interview to the Evening Standard where she talked about ‘The Trial of Christine Keeler’. Read the interview below.
Rising star Ellie Bamber has said she was âdrawnâ to the complex female roles in her new drama about one of the great scandals in British politics.
The Les Miserables actress, 22, finished shooting The Trial Of Christine Keeler, a six-part BBC One drama about the Profumo Affair, this week.
It also stars James Norton, of McMafia and Grantchester fame, Silent Witness star Emilia Fox and Sophie Cookson, best known for her role in the hit Kingsman movies, who plays Keeler, a 19-year-old model who had a brief affair in 1961 with prime minister Harold Macmillanâs secretary of state for war, John Profumo. It sparked a political crisis for the government in 1963.
Bamber plays model and showgirl Mandy Rice-Davies, the friend who introduces Keeler to Profumoâs wealthy set. The actress said: âI donât think the story of Christine and Mandy has ever been told from a womanâs point of view. This [drama] is definitely from that side. I think itâs really important because they werenât prostitutes, they werenât whores, they were just two very, very young women who were totally manipulated and called names that they definitely werenât.”
âI think itâs about time the truth comes out and people actually look at it without judgment.â
Bamber, who gained recognition for her turn in Tom Fordâs Oscar-nominated film Nocturnal Animals, in which her character is brutally raped and murdered, also recently completed filming a âreally harrowingâ crime movie, The Seven Sorrows Of Mary
She had to wear a hairpiece for the role in the Keeler drama, meaning she could walk down the street unnoticed. âMy hair is a lot shorter and I have my fake fringe on when Iâm playing Mandy, so I have to walk around in that sometimes,â she told the Evening Standard shortly before filming ended. âI havenât really noticed it [fan attention] at all. Iâm just really enjoying the work.â
Bamber, whose profile rose on winning an Ian Charleson Award for her 2017 performance as Hilde in Ibsenâs The Lady From The Sea at the Donmar Warehouse, is keen to return to the London stage. She said: âI really, really, really want to get back to the stage soon ⊠I donât really have one particular role in mind, but I would just like to be stretched and to find a few interesting female characters who go on a real journey throughout the play.â
Next generation: Ellie Bamberâs portrait appears in an exhibition of new acting talent ( Chris Floyd )
From this week, Bamberâs portrait will hang alongside stars such as Natalie Dormer, of Game Of Thrones, in J Sheekey, a restaurant in Covent Garden. The exhibit, shot by celebrity photographer Chris Floyd, ârecognises the new wave of talentâ in the capital. Bamber said she feels âreally honouredâ to be included.
Les Miserables and Nocturnal Animals star, Ellie Bamber goes speed dating with GLAMOUR’s@JoshSmithHosts and reveals some surprising facts about her. Ellie reveals what crisp flavour she would be “Spaghetti Bolognese” (NICHE!), sums her character in contemporary dance and that her dream role would be Britney Spears in ‘Britney Spears: The Musical.” Who else is praying that might actually happen IRL?
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