For 2007, Ellie will co-star in the upcoming musical film from Mindfire Entertainment titled Caught on Tape. The film will mix rap dialogue with traditional script as it follows the story of a boy who secretly videos his mother's partner plotting a crime. The film is directed by former Onyx rapper Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones and will also star Cedric the Entertainer, Vivica A. Fox, Erik Palladino and Malik Yoba.

Additionally, Ellie will be featured in The Thirst, an edgy vampire thriller from director Jeremy Kasten that stars Adam Baldwin.

In 2006, Ellie appeared in several thrillers for CFQ Films (a division of Mindfire Entertainment): The Darkroom, a story about an amnesiac in search of his own identity that co-starred Greg Grunberg and Lucy Lawless; Room 6, a super-natural thriller that co-starred Jerry O'Connell and Christine Taylor; and the Sci-Fi Pictures / Mindfire Entertainment action / comedy Dead & Deader, which co-starred Dean Cain and Susan Ward, and was directed by Patrick Dinhut.

Her other most recent work includes All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos, another thriller from CFQ Films that was an official selection at both the Slam Dance Film Festival in Park City, Utah and The San Francisco Indie Fest in San Francisco, California in 2005. She also reprised her role as feisty Marine Patrol sharpshooter Jordan Casper in House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim, sequel to 2003's House of the Dead, both based on the popular first-person shooter video game from Sega Corporation.

In addition, Ellie was scheduled to be featured in Dead Calling (formerly The Second Line), another thriller about a long-buried town secret unveiled as a young couple inherits a home from a deceased relative. The film was written by Anthony Masi and Paul Swearingen, and co-stars several former Halloween film actors including Charles Cyphers, P.J. Soles, Marianne Hagan and Brad Loree.

Ellie's other film work includes the critically acclaimed independent films Free Enterprise, co-starring Eric McCormack and William Shatner, and The Specials, co-starring Rob Lowe, Jamie Kennedy and Thomas Haden Church. Ellie appeared in and served as Executive Producer on both films for Mindfire Entertainment.

Her television credits include "thirtysomething"; Disney's "Chips, The War Dog"; "Just Tipsy, Honey"; "The New Dragnet"; and "Gabriel's Fire."

She has also been a featured profile on VH-1's "Where Are They Now: Horror Movie Stars," and the soon to be released documentary, Halloween: 25 Years of Terror.

Ellie, a native of Glen Cove, Long Island, earned a degree in theatre arts from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Upon graduating, she landed various local and national television commercials, including one for Texaco. She returned to New York and landed a part in her first motion picture, Married to the Mob.

In an old-fashioned tale of Hollywood, Ellie maintained 45 auditions for various projects before she won the role of Rachel Carruthers in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers - auditioning on a Friday and earning the part by Monday.

She was one of the original founders of Mindfire Entertainment in 1997 alongside Mark Gottwald, Dan Bates and Mark A. Altman. She remains a partner in the firm.

Ellie currently resides with her husband, Mark, and two daughters, Rose and Grace, in Los Angeles, CA and Nantucket, MA.

(** Admin Note: This bio has been written by the Administrator of The Ellie Effect. Some of the information contained herein was obtained via verbal transcription of the file on record at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Library in 1989 for Ellie Cornell. Any errors will gladly be corrected.)