- Stats
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- Age
- 37
- Height
- 159cm
- Ethnicity
- NZ European
- Skills
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- Contemporary Dance
- Creative/Script Writing
- Painting
| Ella is a versatile actor, director, and producer working across theatre and film. Her screen credits span US television and NZ feature films, including Netflix’s East of Eden and the docu-drama Heaven and Hell. As a theatre performer, she has toured internationally to Hong Kong, Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, and Macau. Her stage performance in The Arrival earned her the Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for Best Newcomer. Ella is the Artistic Director of Red Leap Theatre, New Zealand’s leading physical theatre company, and a renowned workshop leader, teaching devising and visual theatre worldwide. |
Experience
| Feature Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | (Docu-Drama) Heaven and Hell | Role: Moira |
Production Company: Warner Brothers/TVNZ
Director: Natalie Malcom, Thomas Robbins |
| 2017 | Resolve | Role: Tania Crean |
Production Company: Screentime NZ Ltd
Director: Peter Burger |
| Web & Digital | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Waiheke Republique | Role: Lead - Tammy |
Production Company: NZME Vision
Director: Florence Noble |
| Theatre | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Owls Do Cry | Role: - |
Production Company: Red Leap Theatre
Director: Malia Johnstone |
| 2015 | 2015-2016 Dust Pilgrim - A Tale of Freedom | Role: - |
Production Company: Red Leap Theatre
Director: Kate Parker & Julie Nolan |
| 2014 | Sea | Role: - |
Production Company: Red Leap Theatre
Director: Julie Nolan |
| 2014 | Paper Sky | Role: Henrietta |
Production Company: Red Leap Theatre
Director: Julie Nolan |
| 2013 | Te Po - Auckland Theatre Company's The Next Stage | Role: Seagull & Giraffe |
Production Company: Nightsong Productions & Theatre Stampede
|
| 2013 | The Feast - The Soldiers Heart & The Feathered Girl | Role: The Feathered Girl |
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| TVC | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Woop 'World on a Plate' campaign | Role: Lead |
Production Company: Magnesium
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| 2021 | Toyota campaign | Role: Ghost Chillies |
Production Company: Flying Fish
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| 2019 | Trade Me 'Art Gallery' campaign | Role: For Me Gallery Job |
Production Company: Colenso BBDO
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| 2019 | Trelegy 'State Fair' campaign | Role: Daughter |
Production Company: Cherokee Films Ltd
|
| 2018 | Genesis Winter campaign | Role: Young Couple |
Production Company: Shine/Good Oil
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| 2016 | Fisher and Paykel Appliances | Role: Hero 'Trailblazer' |
Production Company: Content/Corp
|
| 2016 | Agile 'The Badminton Game' | Role: Lead |
Production Company: BETC France/Hello Stranger/Cowley Films Ltd
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| 2015 | TJX Maxx campaign | Role: Kissing Couple |
Production Company: Cowley Films
|
| 2013 | Remax | Role: Dreams Woman |
Production Company: Exile Films/Leo Burnett USA
|
| 2013 | Sportsbet 'Man Hands' | Role: Girlfriend |
Production Company: The Sweet Shop NZ
|
| 2013 | AMI Humaness | Role: Woman |
Production Company: The Sweet Shop
|
| 2013 | Strepsils Throat Lozenges 'Strepsils Summer' | Role: Presenter |
Production Company: Brandworld
|
| Television Series | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | East of Eden | Role: Mrs Bacon |
Production Company: EOE NZ Ltd
Director: Garth Davis & Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre |
| 2022 | The Brokenwood Mysteries | Role: Belinda Wadsworth |
Production Company: South Pacific Pictures
Director: David de Latour |
| 2019 | The New Legends of Monkey 2 | Role: Omari |
Production Company: Netflix
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| 2016 | American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story | Role: Millie Hefner |
Production Company: Amazon
Director: Rick Lopez |
| 2016 | Dear Murderer | Role: Rosemary Bungay |
Production Company: Screentime NZ
Director: Riccardo Pelizzeri |
| 2015 | Bombshell | Role: Nathalie Tomas-Mestre |
Production Company: Screentime NZ Ltd
Director: Riccardo Pelizzeri |
| 2015 | Roman Empire | Role: Bruttia Crispina |
Production Company: Netflix
Director: Rick Lopez |
| 2014 | Jono & Ben at Ten | Role: Bens Wife - Rabobank Sketch |
Production Company: Mediaworks
|
| 2013 | CoverBand | Role: Polly |
Production Company: TVNZ/The Downlow Concept
Director: Jonathan Brough |
| Television Feature | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | In Dark Places | Role: Megan McKinnell |
Production Company: South Pacific Pictures
Director: Michael Bennett |