Ella-Rae Kirby-Smith (born 21 February 1998) is an English actress and model. She began her modeling career in 2014 and rose to fame for her portrayal of Phoebe in Clique and Nix in the AMC martial arts drama series Into the Badlands.
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Early life
Ella-Rae Smith is from Bristol and has two younger siblings. She’s of mixed Jamaican and English heritage. She attended Oldfield School in Bath and went on to Sixth Form at Cotham School. She was scouted at the age of 13 to become a model during a school trip to Paris and signed her first contract in 2014. She attended NYT in 2015.
Career
She got her first big break when she starred in the BBC’s television series, Clique as Phoebe. She has starred in numerous short films in the past two years. In 2017, she was cast to play the role of Nix in Into the Badlands. She played one of Madame M's crew-members in the film Hobbs & Shaw. She also plays the role of Daisy Hoy in the Netflix series The Stranger. She is represented by United Agents.
