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My Take
Ellie Kendrick is the sort of actor I trust on instinct. Taking on Anne Frank as a teenager in the BBC miniseries demanded a maturity most performers never reach, and she carried it. A Cambridge education hints at the intelligence behind her choices, and her range is what really wins me over: stage, film, the Game of Thrones run as Meera Reed, even voicing a character in World of Warcraft. I am drawn to actors who lean on craft rather than spectacle, who pick roles with substance. Kendrick feels like a performer building something lasting and thoughtful, and that quiet seriousness is rare.
Overview
Eleanor Lucy V. Kendrick (born 6 June 1990) is an English actress best known for playing Anne Frank in the BBC's 2009 miniseries The Diary of Anne Frank, Ivy Morris in the first series of the 2010 revived Upstairs Downstairs, and Meera Reed in the HBO series Game of Thrones. She also voices Taelia Fordragon in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ellie Kendrick
- Name (Japanese)
- エリー・ケンドリック
- Reading
- えりー・けんどりっく
- Born
- June 6, 1990 (age 36)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Horse
- Origin
- London, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / stage actor / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Cambridge
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.