Ella Beatty (born April 8, 2000) is an American actress. An alumna of the Juilliard School, she is best known for her breakthrough role as the titular character in Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story (2026). She has also starred in the films If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) and Act One (2026).
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Early life and education
Beatty was born on April 8, 2000, in Los Angeles, California, to actors Annette Bening and Warren Beatty; she is the youngest of the pair's four children. In 2022, she graduated from the Juilliard School, where she studied drama.
Career
Beatty made her screen debut in 2024 with a recurring role as Kerry O'Shea, the surrogate daughter of Truman Capote in the Ryan Murphy anthology series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans for FX on Hulu. That same year, she replaced Elle Fanning as River Rayner in the Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play Appropriate, in her Broadway debut. The following year she returned to theater playing a flirtatious maid, Regina Engstrand in the Lincoln Center Theater production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts (2025) at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater off-Broadway.
In 2025, Beatty made her film debut in the A24 drama film If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, directed by Mary Bronstein, which had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The following year she played the lead role of Lizzie Borden in Ryan Murphy's Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story.