Who Is Ella Beatty? Meet Warren Beatty and Annette Bening’s Daughter Making Her Mark
The Juilliard grad is following her parents' footsteps with roles in 'Feud' and Ryan Murphy's 'Monster.'
Key Takeaways
- Ella Beatty graduated from Juilliard and has already appeared in Ryan Murphy's 'Feud' on FX.
- Ella is playing accused murderer Lizzie Borden in Ryan Murphy's true crime series 'Monster'.
- Ella says meeting Sarah Paulson on Broadway in 'Appropriate' completely changed her life.
Warren Beatty and Annette Bening’s daughter Ella Beatty shined on the 79th annual Tony Awards red carpet last night in her long-sleeve white gown. But, while some people were over the moon about her appearance—and her reunion with actress Sarah Paulson—others were confused about who Ella was and why she was there. Because of that, we’ve decided to share everything we know about Ella and reveal if she’s starting to follow in her parents’ acting footsteps. Read on for more.
Who is Ella Beatty?
Ella is Warren and Annette’s youngest child. She was born on April 8, 2000, and recently graduated from Juilliard. Since then, she’s begun acting and even appeared in Ryan Murphy’s hit series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans as Kerry O’Shea—the daughter of Truman Capote’s lover, John O’Shea.
She is also expected to team up with Murphy for his true crime show Monster, in which she will play Lizzie Borden, an American woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe in 1892.
“Playing pretend, make-believe, that was the way that I contextualized the world. I think there was a part of me that thought everybody did that,” Ella told Interview Magazine in 2023. “When your friends come over, doesn’t everybody want to play make-believe? I didn’t work professionally at all until I graduated from acting school, but I knew that that was who I was before I knew it was going to be my profession.”
Along with movies and TV, Ella has also appeared in Broadway shows including Appropriate, which is where she met Paulson in 2023.
“I did Feud, but Appropriate really changed my life,” Ella said in that same interview with Interview Magazine. “I met some of the people closest to me in my life—I met [Paulson]. Artistically, I had never had an experience creating a character that way, with that platform, on stage. I had been trained to do that, but I’d never done it.”
“One thing I love about doing this play is that it’s a very solid, consistent story. No matter what the audience’s experience might be, which can vary night to night, we can play our scenes the way we rehearsed them and intended them to be played, with spontaneity inside of it. I don’t feel like I’m relying on an audience to have a certain experience of the play in order to do it,” she continued. “And I had such an abbreviated rehearsal process. We rehearsed when we teched at the Belasco, but I feel like I had to learn on the job, which isn’t something that you typically do with theater.”
Does Ella Beatty have any other siblings?
Warren and Annette have three other kids: Stephen Ira, Benjamin and Isabel. Most of them do keep out of the spotlight though, unlike Ella.
“I have my good days and bad days. I’m certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way,” Annette told People in 2006. “[I] try to protect their [my kids’] privacy as much as possible and respect their privacy and right to have a private life.”
“I’m lucky because I can take long chunks of time when I’m not working, and so many of my friends can’t do that. I feel so lucky, so when I do work, I’m very clear with my kids about my work and how much I love it and how important it is,” the Dutton Ranch star continued. “When I do, I really immerse myself in it and they know it will end. It’s a job, and it will have a beginning and an end, and then I’ll be back doing all my normal stuff.”
Ready for more? Subscribe to our YouTube channel for video podcasts, health tips and uplifting stories designed for women 40, 50, 60 and beyond.
Conversation
All comments are subject to our Community Guidelines. Woman's World does not endorse the opinions and views shared by our readers in our comment sections. Our comments section is a place where readers can engage in healthy, productive, lively, and respectful discussions. Offensive language, hate speech, personal attacks, and/or defamatory statements are not permitted. Advertising or spam is also prohibited.
