Who are Bella Ramsey’s parents? Bella’s career, hobby, trolls, and gender identity!
Bella Ramsey is a young British actress who has won accolades for her talent and great work. She started her career with the Game of Thrones and went on to play some really nice roles that were critically acclaimed. Who are Bella Ramsey’s parents? Are they also from the entertainment industry?
Who are Bella Ramsey’s parents?
Bella Ramsey is a gorgeous and talented actress. She was born on 30 September 2003 in Nottingham in England in the UK. She is of English descent and holds the passport of the UK.
People are curious to know about Bella Ramsey’s parents and family. But her family though supportive of her acting career prefer to remain away from limelight. They want their privacy to be intact.
Bella’s father is Alex Ramsey. He is a businessman and likes to play the trumpet. There are no other details or photos of him. As regards her mother, not much us known. She is so private that she even avoids sharing her picture on Bella’s social media.
Bella has uploaded a photo on her Instagram on 21 August 2020. In it, Bella was doing a thumbs up. There was another hand also showing the thumbs up but the face of this person was not visible. Bella revealed that the hand was her mom’s. Bella had captioned the post:
“featuring my mum’s thumb.”
The young actress had no industry connections before landing her first role in Game of Thrones. She has an elder sister who does amateur roles in theater groups. For 7 years (8 to 15 years of age) Bella and her sister attended the Loughborough branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts.
In 2016, on her BBC interview, Bella had revealed that her family supports her in her career. Recalling the time when they rejoiced when she got the lead role of Mildred Hubble in The Worst Witch on CNBC/Netflix, Bella said:
“They are all very proud and supportive. When we got the phone call I was with my mum, sister, cousin, and auntie, there was a lot of screaming and excited jumping, you could have filled a bathtub with the proud teardrops!”
Bella’s TV and film roles
Bella had auditioned for the Television Workshop which is a British organization that gives coaching to young people in acting and tries to improve their performance skills. She gained admission into the workshop and her life changed. Simultaneously, she began to audition for various professional roles in films and television.
Bella got her first credited role at her age of 13. She played the character of Lady Lyanna Mormont in English TV drama, Game of Thrones from 2016 to 2019. Her launch was a superb one. According to IMDb page, she already has 24 acting credits on her name at such a young age.
From 2017 to 2020, she starred in HBO television series The Worst Witch. She was also seen in 2018’s film Holmes & Watson and 2019’s movie Renée Zellweger–led Judy.
Bella also acted in HBO’s His Dark Materials and Starz’s Becoming Elizabeth. Her latest movie was Lena Dunham’s Catherine Called Birdy. For her role in it, she gathered positive reviews.
Now, Bella is in the show The Last of Us. There are more films and TV shows of which she has been a part of. And her acting stands out and she has been praised repeatedly for it. She can sing and also plays the guitar.
Bella: hobby, bullying, sexuality
Bella started acting at age four. But it was more as a hobby. She had never thought that she would take it up seriously in the future. She said:
“I only thought of acting as a hobby until three years ago when I got into Television Workshop, which is an amazing place. Through Workshop I started to audition and had several auditions and rejections for various parts before landing my first professional role in Game of Thrones season six and then Mildred Hubble in The Worst Witch,”
In her early days, she suffered from anorexia nervosa, the eating disorder. She had revealed that her faith in her religion of Christianity helped her recover.
She had said about herself:
“I’m never instantly comfortable in a place, but sets are magical for me,”
After it was announced that she would play Ellie in The Last of Us, she got innumerable hate messages on her social media. People were fixated on her square head. They told her to not act. Bella was upset with these trolls. She used to doomscroll these trolls as a pastime. Remembering it, she said:
“You’re looking for a comment that’s more painful than the last one,”
“I’d kid myself that I was doing it in jest.”
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Bella is a non-binary. She is not bothered about the pronouns used for her. She told The New York Times:
“I’m very much just a person. Being gendered isn’t something that I particularly like, but in terms of pronouns, I really couldn’t care less.“