Ellie White
Ellie White in 2016
Born (1989-06-14) 14 June 1989
Oxford, England
OccupationActress
Years active2009–present
Known forThe Windsors

Ellie White (born 14 June 1989)[1] is an English comedy actress. She is best known for playing Princess Beatrice of York in the British royal family parody The Windsors (2016–2020) and Katia in the sitcom Stath Lets Flats (2018–2021).

In 2022, Ellie co-wrote and starred in the BBC sketch show Ellie & Natasia, alongside her comedy partner Natasia Demetriou. The show won Best TV Sketch Show at the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2022.[2]

Early life

Ellie White is from Oxford.[1] Her father is journalist Jim White.[3] She attended the University of Bristol,[4] and was a member of the Bristol Revunions, graduating in 2010.[4]

Career

White's career started in 2013, doing comedy stand-up at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[5] After the festival, White landed her first TV appearance on the Channel 4 TV series Jamie Demetriou's Comedy Blaps,[6] and on BBC Three's Live at the Electric,[6] as well as BBC Radio 4's Fresh From the Fringe.[6][7] In 2015, White landed a regular role in series 2 of House of Fools.[8]

In 2019, White teamed up with long-time stand-up comedy partner Natasia Demetriou[9] to make critically acclaimed comedy sketch pilot Ellie & Natasia for the BBC.[10] Since 2016, White has portrayed the character of Princess Beatrice of York for three seasons of the spoof royal comedy The Windsors, alongside actress Celeste Dring, who plays her royal sister Princess Eugenie.[11][12]

In 2020, White played the main role of Cathy in the BBC comedy series The Other One,[13] and starred alongside Lee Mack in the BBC sitcom Semi-Detached.[14][15]

In 2021, White played a voice only role as "Radio" in the Sky One television comedy series Bloods about two paramedics.[16] In 2022, she appeared in The Dumping Ground, We Are Not Alone and The Witchfinder (TV series).[1]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Film genre
2015 Aaaaaaaah! Sitcom Margaret (credited as Eleanor White) Comedy Horror
2016 Intervention Sarah Short film
BIN Honey (voice) Short film
2018 Plankton Lois (voice) Short film
2019 Luger Helen Short film
2022 We Are Not Alone Sredstev film
2023 Wonka Gwennie film

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2013 Jamie Demetriou: Channel 4 Comedy Blaps herself[6][7] 1 episode
Live at the Electric[6][7] herself Series 3, Episode 3.3 Techie
2015 Funeral (TV short) mourner 1 episode
House of Fools[8] Rachel Series 2 - 6 episodes
Horrible Histories Various characters -
2015–2016 Comedy Feeds (BBC3 iPlayer series) Alice / Various 2 episodes
2016 Year Friends Ellie 12 episodes
Halloween Comedy Shorts Rose "Jamie Demetriou's Horror: Oh God"
2016–2017 Class Dismissed Various characters 15 episodes
2016–2017 Murder in Successville Cara Delevigne / Bjork / Cara Delevingne 3 episodes
2016–2018 Damned Telephone caller 10 episodes
2017 The Other One Cathy Episode #1.1
Carters Get Rich Shauna Episode - "Trent vs Tony"
Inside No. 9 Anya/Karen 1 episode - "The Bill"
Summer Comedy Shorts Anne "Ellie White & Vicki Pepperdine's Summer"
2018 Temp Diane -
Pls Like Polly Sprong 2 episodes
2016–present The Windsors[12] Princess Beatrice 20 episodes
2018–2021 Stath Lets Flats Katia 11 episodes
2019 Timewasters Janice 6 episodes
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Mum's The Word with Natasia Demetriou Series 17 - Episode 4
This Time with Alan Partridge Dee Gilhooly Series 1 - Episode 5
Drifters Lois Episode - "Got to Get Back" (voice)
2019–2020 Semi-Detached[14] April 6 Episodes
2020 Webidate Tessa 1 episode
Reasons to Be Cheerful with Matt Lucas Lemily Episode 1.4 - Lemily
2021 Black Death Lady Orella / Malkyn 2 episodes - The Flag of Snakesboroughand and The Maiden and The Robin
2022, 2023 The Dumping Ground Jen 2 episodes - "Face to Face", "Life Is What You Bake It"
2022 The Witchfinder Karen 1 episode - 1.5
2020, 2022 The Other One [13] Cathy 12 episodes
2019-2022 Ellie & Natasia[10] Ellie 7 episodes
2021-2022 Bloods [16] Radio (Voice only) 11 episodes
2022 live at the Moth Club Jen 4 episodes
2023 A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou Jen 1 pilot episode
Black Mirror Kate Cezar Episode: "Loch Henry"

References

  1. 1 2 3 Katre, Ajay (7 July 2022). "Ellie White". marvelousvideos.com.
  2. ↑ "Comedy.co.uk Awards Winners 2022". Comedy.co.uk. 8 February 2023.
  3. ↑ White, Jim [@jimw1] (25 March 2019). "Appreciate I am qualifying for the Champions League of parental preening with this, but still. Ellie White makes an appearance on Alan Partridge's sofa tonight. She plays a radical feminist. Can't see how it could go wrong..." (Tweet). Retrieved 14 June 2021 – via Twitter.
  4. 1 2 "Bristol Revunions - Our Alumni 1953 - 2015". bristolrevunions.com. 2016.
  5. ↑ "Fresh from the Fringe". bbc.co.uk. 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "Ellie White: Humans - Edinburgh Fringe". broadwaybaby.com. 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 "The Ellie White Three Minute Interview". broadwaybaby.com. 2013.
  8. 1 2 "Ellie White's favourite TV". theguardian.com. 2015.
  9. ↑ "Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White are Gettin' Big". sohotheatre.com. 2018.
  10. 1 2 "New British comedy TV series from 2019: BBC, Sky, Channel 4, E4, Dave, Gold". denofgeek.com. 2019.
  11. ↑ "Onion Talking: Ellie White & Celeste Dring on The Windsors". thevelvetonion.com. 2017.
  12. 1 2 "Get to know Ellie White: The Windsors' Beatrice has fans in hysterics!". hitc.com. 2020.
  13. 1 2 "The Other One star Ellie White has a special royal link – find out here". hellomagazine.com. 19 June 2020.
  14. 1 2 "This week's home entertainment: from Little Birds to Ramy | Television & radio &#124". The Guardian. 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  15. ↑ "Semi-Detached". bbc.co.uk. 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  16. 1 2 "Bloods - Cast and Crew". comedy.co.uk. 2021.
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