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Ella Balinska A talk with The Charlie Angels Actress
Ella Balinska was born on 4 October 1996 in London to entrepreneur Kaz Balinski-Jundzill and chef Lorraine Pascale ( Jamaican ). She has described her background as being a mix of " British , Polish and Caribbean ". Her parents divorced in 2000 . Her father is married to model Sophie Anderton . She played county-level netball and competed in track and field at a national level , having been the javelin thrower for Team London . She went to James Allen ' s Girls ' School in Dulwich , London , and left in 2015 . She then went on to train at the Guildford School of Acting . She left during her final semester in 2018 for work and returned in 2020 to complete her degree , o cially graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting in 2021 . e Ella Balinska Scholarship was established in her name .
30 Flashmag ! Issue 133 September 2022
Most actors work their way up to action star status , but for Ella Balinska , blockbuster success came early . After booking a string of roles in her native England , the 25-year-old actor broke out in the U . S . with a starring role in Elizabeth Banks ’ revival of Charlie ’ s Angels . She followed that up with this year ’ s Netflix series Resident Evil , where she battled flesh-eating zombies in the adaptation to the popular video game . Fresh o that show ’ s untimely cancellation , Balinska is back with another kinetic performance in the blood-soaked thriller Run Sweetheart Run . e Blumhouse production , about a woman escaping the blind date from hell , premiered at Sundance back in 2020 and was a casualty of the pandemic , gets a second life this fall when it hits Amazon Prime .