Is Jackie In Yellowjackets Season 2? The Role Of Ella Purnell, Who Plays Jackie, Is Explained

Ella Purnell is responsible for the love and even the contempt people have for Jackie. It worked for a legion of fans who, by the time Jackie died in the conclusion, already had suspicions about who she was: a time-traveling cinephile, someone who had stolen Misty Quigley's identity, Lottie Matthews (Courtney Eaton), Shauna (Sophie Nelisse), and more. What if she thaws out in the springtime and becomes a woman of the woods? For fans of the Yellowjackets, here is everything they need to know about the actress who portrays Jackie: Ella Purnell.

#1. Who is Ella Purnell?

Young British actress Ella Purnell is well-known for appearing in movies like Never Let Me Go (2010), Kick-Ass 2 (2013), and Maleficent (2014). She studied acting, singing, and dance while attending Sylvia Young Theatre School. Ella Purnell was selected to join the cast of Oliver! in 2008 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. She was one of the few girls chosen to participate in the show's children's ensemble for an entire year.

#2. How old is Ella Purnell?

Tuesday, September 17, 1996, saw the birth of Ella Summer Purnell in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets, England. Her zodiac sign is Virgo.

#3. Ella Purnell’s education

Ella Purnell attended Forest School in London, the City of London School for Girls, and The Young Actors Theatre Islington while at the same time taking classes at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. These classes consisted of acting, singing, and dancing. To help finance her schooling, she became involved in various acting projects. She had initially planned to attend a university and study English, film, or psychology, but did not go through with it. She relocated to Brooklyn, New York, in August 2018.

#4. Who is Ella Purnell dating?

Ella Purnell revealed on Instagram that she is dating musician Max Bennet in an effort to put an end to the rumors surrounding her love life. Despite their private natures, not much is known about the couple. Ella has shared very few pictures of them together on her Instagram.
The most recent image Ella put on her Instagram was a photograph of the couple enjoying a kiss on Max Bennet's birthday, which occurred somewhere around January 2023. Her caption wrote, “Happy Birthday to my love (rose flower) you are the best thing to ever happened to me. X.” In actuality, this demonstrates that the couple is still together and deeply in love.

#5. Did Brad Pitt Date Ella Purnell?  

In 2017, Ella Purnell, who was 21 years old at the time, was reported to be in the process of forming a relationship with Brad Pitt, who was 32 years older than her. The rumor was debunked immediately by a source who was close to Ella. The Source said, “It’s completely made up, they’re not dating.”

#6. Ella Purnell as Jackie in Yellowjackets: She knew her character Jackie’s fate early on 

Ella Purnell, who plays Jackie in Yellowjackets, knew her character Jackie’s fate early on and couldn’t keep it a secret among the cast on set. “Oh, no I told everybody,” says Purnell. “I told everybody like the first day. Maybe I should have kept it a secret. That would have been hilarious. Imagine if I would have kept it a secret until the last episode?”

In contrast to her customary predilection for playing characters who are harder to like, Purnell confesses that she was worried about portraying Jackie in a way that would be sympathetic to viewers. “As the season progressed and Jackie became more and more unhelpful, shall we say, out in the wilderness with everybody else, I did start to think, ‘God, you’re not making it any easier for me’ and then I did become a little concerned about how likable she would be.”

Yet Jackie showed that she had layers. She wasn’t a stereotypical queen bee or mean girl, and deep down, she truly loved her best friend, Shauna. All of this led to Jackie becoming beloved among Yellowjackets viewers, to the point where many were in denial when she passed away in the series' climactic episode.

“That just goes to show that it’s all in the writing, and it actually doesn’t matter if you try to make her likable, because by the time I died, I thought, no one’s going to care that Jackie’s dead because she’s so bloody annoying that everyone’s going to go ‘Oh, thank God,’ but people seemed to really respond to her and really respond to the character.”

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