Isabella Blake-Thomas

Isabella Rose M. Blake-Thomas[1] (born 21 September 2002[2]) is an English actress best known for playing January in Secret Society of Born Royals, Young Zelena in Once Upon A Time, Peggy Kendall in Game Shakers and Sam in Maybe I'm Fine.

Isabella Blake-Thomas
Born
Isabella Rose M. Blake-Thomas[1]

(2002-09-21) 21 September 2002
London, United Kingdom
OccupationActress, Writer, Singer/Songwriter
Years active2007–present
Websiteisabellablakethomas.com

Career

Blake-Thomas was born in London. Her first role was at the age of five, when she was selected to present the CBeebies television programme Green Balloon Club.[3] This ran for one season between 2008 and 2009. Later in 2009, she had a minor role in the biographical television film Enid,[4][5] In 2010, she was cast in an adaptation of the Just William series of books, playing Violet-Elizabeth Bott.[6] Blake-Thomas had a role as 'Izzie', in the 2011 film Johnny English Reborn.[7] Her first lead role was in the 2011 independent film Little Glory as Julie, alongside Cameron Bright.[8][9] In 2012, Blake-Thomas played the part of Annabelle Crumb in the BBC Christmas adaptation of the David Walliams book Mr. Stink.[10][11][12] She also appeared in the DreamWorks[13] animation of Rise of the Guardians.

In 2013, she appeared in Midsomer Murders, Doctor Who and Dancing on the Edge alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor. In 2014, Blake-Thomas appeared in The Smoke on BBC and Da Vinci's Demons. She later appeared in the FX show Married, in 2015. The following year she appeared in Game Shakers, Shameless and ABC's Once Upon a Time as the recurring younger version of Rebecca Mader. In 2017, she re-appeared in Once Upon a Time and continued on as the lead role in Keplers' Dream with Holland Taylor, Kelly Lynch, Sean Patrick Flanery and Steven Michael Quezada. She also starred in The League of Legend Keepers: Shadows and Pretty Outrageous. In 2018 Blake-Thomas appeared in the leading role of Sam in Maybe I'm Fine alongside Kelly Sullivan, Rob Mayes, Flex Alexander and Daniela Alonso. She can be seen as Jon Voight's daughter in Orphan Horse and Pepper in Turnover. She also made her 1st AD debut on the film Running on Empty. In February 2018, Blake-Thomas released her debut single "Blame" which can be found on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music and more. Her music video is available for viewing on YouTube starring, Blake-Thomas and Matt Cornett. Blake-Thomas then went on to release two EP's and a remix in 2019. Her debut EP was Stronger and her second was Painless.

In 2017, Blake-Thomas and her mother Elizabeth founded Mother & Daughter Entertainment, their production company who's slogan is "Making content that matters". In 2019, actress Chandler Kinney (Lethal Weapon, Z-O-M-B-I-E-S-2) and her mother Taryn Kinney joined the MDE team.

Personal life

Blake-Thomas was born in London and lives with her mother Elizabeth. She attended Hampton Court House School in 2010 and was later homeschooled. She graduated early from high school in 2018. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California, with her mother and dog named Chai. Since a very young age, Blake-Thomas has enjoyed being in front of the camera because as she describes it, "It gives me the ability to be whoever I want to be." Not only does Blake-Thomas act and sing but she is also fluent in French. She is training to get her private pilot's license in 2020.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2011 Johnny English Reborn Izzie [7]
Little Glory Julie [8][9]
2012 Rise of the Guardians British Girl Voice [14]
2013 Let Me Survive Emily [15]
2014 We Are Monster Little Girl [16]
Scarlett Thread Scarlett
2015 Toxin: 700 Days Left on Earth Young Sarah
2016 Jean Jean Sporkin
The Blimp Trap Billie Campbell
Broken Wings Jemima
Trust, Prey, Hope Hope
Sand Angels Esperanza
2017 Clockmaker Mia
Community Service Felicity Tillman
Kepler's Dream Ella
The League of Legend Keepers: Shadows Sophie
Pretty Outrageous Poppy
2018 Sounds of Silence Jaime
Orphan Horse Young Caroline
Maybe I'm Fine Sam [14]
Running on Empty 1st AD
Turnover Pepper
2019 Evie-Rose Charlotte
Unseen Jenny
2020 Secret Society of Second Born Royals Princess January Disney+ film [17]

Television
YearTitleRoleNotesRefs.
2008–09Green Balloon ClubLily-RosePresenter[3]
2009EnidGirl at Tea PartyTV film[4][5]
2010Just WilliamViolet-Elizabeth Bott2 episodes[18]
2011Red Faction: OriginsYoung LyraTV film[19]
Jelly JammRitaEpisode: "The Instant Gardener"
2012DoctorsEllie WickensEpisode: "Follow That Star!"[20]
Mr. StinkAnnabelle CrumbTV film[10][11][12]
2013Midsomer MurdersHollyEpisode: "Schooled in Murder"[21]
Dancing on the EdgeEmily2 episodes[22][23]
What's the Big Idea?LiliVoice[24]
Doctor WhoGirl Reading ComicEpisode: "The Bells of St John"[25]
The White QueenLittle GirlEpisode: "The Storm", uncredited
2014The SmokeNieve1 episode
Da Vinci's DemonsBeatrice2 episodes[26]
Work in ProgressMadison SterlingEpisode: "It's a Play Date, Not a Real Date"
2015MarriedHarper2 episodes
2016ShamelessPregnant TeenagerEpisode: "I Only Miss Her When I'm Breathing"[27]
Once Upon a TimeYoung Zelena2 episodes[28][29]
Game ShakersPeggyEpisode: "Party Crashers"[27]
gollark: You can steal squid's tracebacking.
gollark: Xpcall can transform the errors or something.
gollark: In any case, this may be irrelevant, because new CPUs will be out in 1-3 years.
gollark: Well, GPUs are meant to run on 16 PCIe lanes though apparently work on 8.
gollark: (Ryzen is better anyway)

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