Ella Rumpf was born in
Paris and grew up in
Zurich, Switzerland. Her father is a family counselor and her mother a teacher and lecturer. Rumpf went to the
Steiner school and had her first taste of acting by winning the lead role in
Romeo and Juliet at 14. She appeared in her debut film at age 16 called '''' in 2011 directed by Friederike Jehn. Rumpf won the role of Ali in the multi-award-winning feature film
War (
Chrieg), by Simon Jaquemet in 2014 and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the
Swiss Film Awards. She shaved her head for the role. She attended the Giles Foreman Center for Acting in London from 2013–2015 after completing her studies at the
Zurich University of Applied Sciences in 2013. Ella Rumpf starred alongside
Garance Marillier in
Raw (2016). In 2017, she played the lead role in
Tiger Girl and a supporting role in
The Divine Order (
Die göttliche Ordnung). In 2022, Rumpf appeared in the HBO television series
Tokyo Vice, directed by
Michael Mann and written by
J.T. Rogers. In 2023, Rumpf played the main role as Marguerite in the film ''
Marguerite's Theorem'' directed by
Anna Novion. It premiered at the
76th Cannes Film Festival. In this role, she stars as a talented graduate student at a French École Normale Supérieure as she attempts to prove the
Goldbach's conjecture together with her fellow student Lucas (
Julien Frison, a graduate from the
Académie Comédie-Française) under the guidance of their professor Laurent Werner (
Jean-Pierre Darroussin). In 2024, she received the
Lumière Award for Best Female Revelation for her performance. She speaks
Swiss German and
French at a native level, and is fluent in
German and
English. ==Filmography==