Ellie Kendrick (born 6 June 1990) is a British actress best known for playing Anne Frank in the BBC's 2009 miniseries The Diary of Anne Frank.
Kendrick said she was "absolutely terrified" at the thought of playing the 15 year-old Anne Frank. She said that her approach to playing Frank was to "peel back the layers of idolisation and to think of the characters just as normal people." However, her performance as a difficult teenager, obsessed with boys but sensitive to the trauma felt by her family