Ella Rumpf

Ella Rumpf (born 4 February 1995) is a Swiss actress, best known for her role as Alexia in the 2016 horror drama film Raw, which won the Sutherland Trophy at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival. Her other notable roles include, critical acclaimed Tiger in Tiger Girl (2017) and Hanna in The Divine Order (2017), the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards.

Life and career

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 Summer Outside [de] 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

Film

• 2011 — Summer Outside [de] — Mia
• 2014 — War — Ali
• 2016 — Raw — Alexia
• 2017 — Tiger Girl — Tiger
• 2017 — The Divine Order — Hanna
• 2018 — Asphaltgorillas — Marie
• 2019 — The Space Between the Lines — Adrienne
• 2019 — Sympathy for the Devil — Boba — French title: Sympathie pour le diable
• 2020 — Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding — Susanne
• 2021 — Soul of a Beast — Corey
• 2023 — Northern Comfort — Coco
• 2023 — Marguerite's Theorem — Marguerite Hoffmann
• 2025 — Love Letters — Céline
• 2025 — Novak — Louise
• 2025 — Couture — Angèle

Television

• 2016 — Tatort — Ava Fleury
• 2017 — Für dich dreh ich die Zeit zurück — Helena — Television film
• 2020 — Freud — Fleur Salomé — Main role
• 2021 — Succession — Contessa — Guest role, 2 episodes
• 2022 — Tokyo Vice — Polina — Main role, 8 episodes
• 2025 — The Sandman — Eurydice — Episode: "The Song of Orpheus"

Awards and nominations

• 2015 — Swiss Film Award — Best Supporting Actress — War — Nominated
• 2020 — Shooting Stars Award — Won
• 2024 — César Awards — Best Female Revelation — Marguerite's Theorem — Won
• 2024 — Swiss Film Awards — Quartz Award for Best Actress — Marguerite's Theorem — Won