Ellie Darcey-Alden Biography

Ellie Darcey-Alden is a former English child actress of film, stage and television who is best known for playing young Lily Potter in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 2, Francesca ”Franny” Latimer in the Doctor Who series 7 Christmas special.

Ellie Darcey-Alden Age

Darcey-Alden is 19 years old as of 2019. She was born on 4 September 1999.

Ellie Darcey-Alden Family | Siblings

She was born to Sarah Daw, a housewife, and Philip Rodney ”Phil Alden a production senior director on Falcon 9 for SpaceX in Hawthorne, a former general manager at Jaguar Rover Automotive, and an owner of a charity website. Her father has a prominent political background through her paternal great-great-grandfather Leonard Henry Alden, Mayor of Oxford from 1936-1937. Her parents legally wed in August 2003.

Darcey-Alden has a younger brother, Joseph born on 18 February 2002 who is a former child actor and older half-siblings, James Philip born on 1990, a doctor at Colchester General Hospital and Rebecca Charlotte ”Becki” Alden born on 1992, who is a married, both from her father’s first marriage.

Ellie Darcey-Alden Education

She is a former pupil of Dance 10 Theatre School within Edward Feild Primary School in Kidlington which she attended from 2005 to 2011 and of Stagecoach Theatre Arts School under the instruction of Maya Sprigg in Oxford until 2013 where she moved to Elite Dance Studio in Los Angeles until 2015. In late August 2014, She began attending Palos Verdes High School and graduated on 7 June 2018. In Spring 2015 of the freshman year, she joined her school’s Choreo dance team, an advanced dance class that has students perform at pep rallies, community events, sporting events, and at their annual Spring concert.

In July 2017, She joined the RADA Youth Company: Acting summer term, training under Trilby James in contemporary text and Shakespeare. In November 2018, She began acting classes with John Rosenfeld Studios in West Hollywood.

Ellie Darcey-Alden Relationship

Currently, she has not been in a relationship

Ellie Darcey-Alden  Career

Darcey-Alden made her acting debut in 2007, appearing in small roles on the British stage and television, including her first stage credit in Aladdin, directed by Peter Duncan for the Oxford Playhouse.

Darcey-Alden’s most notable role came in summer 2008 when she attended an open audition for the latest Harry Potter installment.

Darcey-Alden has since been cast in a variety of independent and larger budget films. It was announced on 20 July 2011 via the official A and J Management Twitter that she had been thriller co-starring James Mcavoy, Mark Strong, and Harry Potter alum Peter Mullan.  She appeared briefly in the airplane scene seated in the opposite aisle from Elyes Gabel. Other roles include two short films, Pranks, a children’s ghost story following a 12-year-old orphan named Katie confronted by the spirit of her foster mother’s dead son and Sam and Isobel, a coming of age tale of two young children brought together within the confines of a woodlands through childlike innocence and naivety, although Sam eventually realize that Isobel is not as innocuous as she seems. The film was released to the public in April 2016.

On 2012, She returned to the BBC for the Doctor Who series 7 Christmas special, ”The Snowmen” as Francesca Latimer reuniting with real life brother Joseph Darcey-Alden as her on-screen sibling and co-starring alongside Jenna-Louise Coleman and Matt Smith.

In the episode, set in London 1892, Francesca ”Franny” Latimer and her brother Digby are words being cared for by their governess, Clara Oswin Oswald under the alias ”Miss Montague”. The children share a much closer relationship with Clara than they do their own father and Franny decides to relate a troubling experience to her: She has been having frequent nightmares of her late governess who has been tormenting her in her dreams of a promised return on Christmas Eve; it is revealed that years earlier, the governess drowned in the Latimers’ pond, now frozen. Through a series of events, Franny’s nightmare manifests under the Great Intelligence’s influence, the Ice Governess is destroyed with the help of the Doctor, and Clara tragically succumbs to internal injuries, mourned by the Latimers.

Outside of screen and stage credits, she modeled small-time, including ads for Morleys Stores Ltd company from 2009 to 2010. In January 2011, She appeared in a commercial for Skype. She has appeared at many Harry Potter events and other fan conventions over the years, including the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 cast and crew screening in October 2010, the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 2 world premiere on 7 July 2011 in Trafalgar Square, LeakyCon 2011 in Orlando, Florida, the Warmer Bros. Studio Tour London: The Making of Harry Potter in October 2012, LeakyCon Portland 2013, LeakyCon London 2013 and Misti-Con 2013 in 2013 in Laconia, New Hampshire.

In December 2012, she along with Potter alum Ryan Turner (Hugo Weasley) participated in the Leighton Christmas Festival.

On 12 December 2013, she performed for the Los Angeles Clippers Halftime show with Elite Dance Studio. She was scheduled to appear as a guest at Gallifrey One 2014, a science fiction and Doctor Who fan convention, which took place 14-16 February at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott. It was announced that she would be returning to LeakyCon in 2014, which took place in Orlando, Florida from 39 July to 3 August and played Hermione Granger in the Opening Ceremony.

On 6 April 2016, she visited The Wizarding world of Harry Potter Opening at University Studios Hollywood on behalf of MuggleNet where she interviewed Harry Potter co-strs Tom Felton, James and Oliver Phelps, Evanna Lynch and Warwick Davis as well as art director Alan Gilmore.

Ellie Darcey-Alden Net Worth

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Ellie Darcey-Alden Movies | TV Show

Film and Television