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Ellie Bamber shows off her incredible figure in a plunging glitzy bra and suit as she storms the Jaguar 00 launch at the Monaco E-Prix

Ellie Bamber shows off her incredible figure in a plunging glitzy bra and suit as she storms the Jaguar 00 launch at the Monaco E-Prix

Daily Mail​03-05-2025
Ellie Bamber cut a stylish figure as she attended the launch of the new Jaguar event during the Monaco E-Prix weekend on Friday.
The English actress, 28, looked stunning as ever as she enjoyed a shindig with other big names for the star-studded ABB Formula E evening.
Ellie sported a glamorous black two-piece suit which she paired with a glitzy bra to show off her toned midriff.
She added a few extra inches to her frame with a pair of pointed black stilettos as she joined other celebrities on a lavish yacht for the evening.
The Nocturnal Animals star let her outfit do all the talking as she kept her accessories simple while she swept her blonde tresses into a sleek up-do.
Also in attendance was director and producer Anthony Byrne, as well as actor Emmett J. Scanlan.
Mancunian rapper Bugzy Malone was also present, while presenter David Harewood also made up the guest list.
Ellie will soon be starring in an upcoming Kate Moss biopic focusing on her now iconic collaboration with celebrated figurative painter Lucian Freud.
Kate was 28 years old and well-established as one of Britain's most successful fashion models when Freud painted her in the nude, an arduous nine-month project carried out at the artist's Holland Park home in 2002.
The painting would be sold privately for £3.5million some three years later, but its waif-like subject and her relationship with Freud will be reenacted for a wider audience in a forthcoming film.
Directed by James Lucas, the appropriately titled Moss & Freud will feature rising star Ellie as the supermodel in what could arguably be her most challenging role to date.
The task at hand is all the more daunting given she was handpicked by Kate, but those charting her career - including the supermodel, a self-confessed fan - will know the role is in safe hands.
Ellie was in Surrey to investment banker father David and mother Zoe, who now works as her manager.
She then developed a keen interest in acting from the age of 12 after being inspired by her drama teacher at Hawley Place School, now Hurst Lodge School, in Berkshire.
She was also pictured with presenter David Harewood who was in attendance of the luxury event on Friday night
Mainstream success would soon follow, with the then 15-year-old starring alongside Cold Feet star Hermione Norris and Martin Clunes in 2012 miniseries A Mother's Son.
It would be the first of many carefully chosen TV roles, with Ellie taking another small part in The Musketeers before emerging as a star in her own right with the lead in a 2018 adaptation of Les Misérables.
She would play Cosette in an ensemble cast featuring Dominic West, David Oyelowo, Lily Collins and Derek Jacobi - who reunites with Ellie by playing the enigmatic Freud in her latest film.
By then her personal life was winning as many headlines as her professional endeavors, with Ellie embarking on a relationship with Scottish actor Richard Madden in 2017.
By January 2019, her relationship with Richard was over after the couple experienced a rocky patch during which they 'argued every day'.
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