Ele Keats

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Ele Keats
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Ele Keats on the set of "Insidious: Chapter 3"
Born
Paris, France
Occupations
  • Actress
  • model
  • jewelry designer
Years active1986–present
Known for Tribes
Newsies
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Frankie and Johnny
Insidious: Chapter 3

Ele Keats is an American television, film and stage actress, model, and jewelry designer. Keats's most notable roles were in the Disney musical drama film Newsies , Garry Marshall's Frankie and Johnny , the biographical survival drama Alive , Steven Soderbergh's Eros and the horror film Insidious: Chapter 3 . She has also appeared in more than one hundred national TV commercials.

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Acting career

Born in Paris, France, to copywriter Sacha Georgescu (of Romanian descent) and Ford model Jan McGuire, Keats was raised in New York City, Europe and Los Angeles. She began her professional career as a young model, being featured in publications such as American Baby, Ladies' Home Journal & Teen Magazine .[ citation needed ]

After moving to Los Angeles she launched her acting career at fifteen, being featured in a Michael Jackson Pepsi commercial and in 1988 she appeared in LL Cool J's Going Back to Cali music video, directed by Ric Menello.[ citation needed ]

Keats has appeared in more than one hundred TV commercials, including the 1990 Levi's jeans beach ad. [1]

She trained theatrically in New York and in Los Angeles under Gene Bua and Fran Rosen, among others, and starred in plays such as Seven Sided Circle, at the Gene Bua Theatre and Music, America.[ citation needed ] Small television roles quickly followed, including the pilot for The Outsiders , produced by Francis Ford Coppola and a recurring part in the CBS sitcom Dear John starring Judd Hirsch.

When she was still in her teens, Keats landed a regular role in Fox's daily soap opera Tribes as Anny, a pregnant teen girl. The same year she made her feature film debut with a featured role in The Rocketeer .

A rapid succession of bigger roles followed in films such as There Goes My Baby (filmed in 1990 but released in 1994 due to Orion Pictures' bankruptcy [2] ), Garry Marshall's Frankie and Johnny (opposite Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer), the Disney musical Newsies as Sarah Jacobs, love interest of Christian Bale's Jack Kelly, and Frank Marshall's acclaimed drama Alive .

During the 1990s, Keats landed leading and supporting roles in television and independent projects such as Lipstick Camera, the thriller-drama I Shot a Man in Vegas , Disney Channel's White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild , Frank LaLoggia's thriller The Haunted Heart (later re-named Mother, starring Diane Ladd and Olympia Dukakis) and the CBS prime-time drama Race Against Time: the Search of Sarah (in the title role). She also landed a regular role in the Fox sci-fi series White Dwarf , again produced by Francis Ford Coppola, but the pilot wasn't picked up to series and it aired as a TV movie in May 1995. In addition, she appeared in numerous popular TV series, including Diagnosis: Murder , Class of '96 , Touched by an Angel and MTV's Undressed .

In 2001, she played Michelle Phillips' daughter in the independent film March and subsequently landed the role of the mysterious woman in Steven Soderbergh's Eros (opposite Robert Downey Jr.), which debuted at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. Other roles include the leads in Heidi Van Leer's indie comedies Monday and American Decaf. On television, she guest-starred in renowned series such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , CSI: NY , Cold Case and Greek and continued to appear in numerous national TV commercials for brands such as Nissan, AT&T, Petco, Firestone and Kellogg's. She also starred in the stage production The Vagina Monologues in Los Angeles.

In 2014 she starred in Snowflake , a critically acclaimed short film shot in New York City opposite Tracy Middendorf. [3] She later booked roles in the Blumhouse horror films Insidious: Chapter 3 (as Lillith Brenner) and Ouija: Origin of Evil .

In 2017, she played Adam Baldwin's wife Christine in The Last Ship and in 2018 had a role in the mid-season finale of CBS's NCIS .

Jewelry design career

Apart from her job as an actress, Keats has launched her own jewelry line in 2005, Ele Keats Jewelry. [4] As a jewelry designer, Keats specializes in inspirational and birthstone designs and works only with ethical stones. [5] Her creations have been featured in several magazines, worn in many movies and TV shows and received an overwhelming response from celebrity clientele, who praise her inspirational designs as “simply stunning.” [6]

Keats counts Diane Keaton, Elizabeth Berkley, Poppy Montgomery, Carla Gugino, Jessica Biel, Laura Dern, Stefanie Scott, Cameron Diaz, and Mandy Moore among her clients. [5]

The Ele Keats Jewelry official shop was opened in 2013 in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Renamed Ele Keats Jewelry Lifestyle Experience, the shop relocated in a new, wider space in Santa Monica, California in 2016.

Personal life

Keats is a vegan and has been practicing yoga and meditation for more than 20 years. [6] Her sister is actress Caitlin Keats and her cousin is actress Illeana Douglas.[ citation needed ]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1991Missing ParentsMelanieShort Film
Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (Discovery Program)
1991 The Rocketeer Girl at Newsstand
1991 Liebestraum Actress on Soap Opera(footage from "Tribes")
1991 Frankie and Johnny Artemis
1992Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry StoryLisaTelevision film
1992 Newsies Sarah JacobsOutstanding Young Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture Nomination - Young Artists Awards
1993 Alive Susana Parrado
1994Lipstick CameraOmy ClarkVideo
1994 There Goes My Baby Emily
1995MotherAudreyVideo
1995 White Dwarf Princess ArielTelevision Film
1995 I Shot a Man in Vegas Hippie Chick
1996 Cityscrapes: Los Angeles Chloe
1996 White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild BeriVideo
1996Race Against Time: The Search for SarahSarah PorterTelevision Film
1998 Hairshirt Slapping Girl
2000Code BlueSamantha Smith (voice)Video Game
2001MarchJessica
2004 Eros The Woman (segment "Equilibrium")Premiered at the Venice Film Festival
2005The Good Humor ManBride
2006MondayThe GirlfriendPremiered at the Slamdance Film Festival
2011American DecafElieAlso Associate Producer
2014 Snowflake ClaireShort Film
Premiered at the Hollyshorts Film Festival
Also Executive Producer
2015 Insidious: Chapter 3 Lillith Brenner
2016 Ouija: Origin of Evil Ellie's mom

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1990 Dear John Sandy3 episodes
1990 The Outsiders Car HopEpisode: "Pilot"
1990 Normal Life StaceyEpisode: "Prom?"
1990Room for RomanceEpisode: "Fool's Gold"
1990 Tribes Anny Kubiak65 episodes
1993 Class of '96 Karen AndersonEpisode: "Educating David"
1998 Diagnosis: Murder Amy SandersonEpisode: "Rain of Terror"
1998 Touched by an Angel Tracy BeringerEpisode: "Perfect Little Angel"
1999 MTV's Undressed KatieEpisode: "Pilot" (unaired)
2001 CSI Crime Scene Investigation Joyce LanierEpisode: "To Halve and to Hold"
2005 Night Stalker Emily GaleEpisode: "Pilot"
2006Ileanarama - Supermarket of the StarsEpisode: "Pilot"
2006 Cold Case Helen BradleyEpisode: "The Key"
2009 CSI: NY Mary McQuadeEpisode: "Second Chances"
2010 Greek Margie HilgendorfEpisode: "Your Friends and Neighbors"
2010 The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers Diane JamesEpisode: "Origins"
2015OverParentingPennyEpisode: "A Lemonade Stand"
2017 The Last Ship Christine SlatteryEpisode: "Nostos"
2018 NCIS Judy ShawEpisode: "What Child is This?"
2020The Bet - The Web SeriesEle KeatsEpisode 6

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