Up and coming beautiful actress Ella Balinska

By most people’s standards, Ella Balinska has had a very strange few years. While the past 24 months have been unusual for everyone, Balinska’s life has transformed entirely.

In November 2019, she went from being a relatively unknown actress who supplemented her income with a sales assistant job at Selfridges to becoming a bonafide Hollywood star and Cartier ambassador, after making her film debut in the Charlie’s Angels reboot alongside Kristen Stewart and Naomi Scott. As her career started taking off, the pandemic arrived. In March 2020, she left her home in London to fly to LA for what she thought would be a week. The first lockdown was announced soon after and she found herself grounded in LA for months, forcing her to create a new social circle in, it’s fair to say, challenging circumstances.

That summer, her role in Netflix’s Resident Evil took her to South Africa for six months, where she filmed a TV series about a pandemic in the midst of a pandemic. Travel restrictions prevented family and friends from visiting, so she created another family in the form of the cast and crew. A year and a half after waving goodbye to her mother (the model and chef Loraine Pascale), she returned to her family in London.