Isabella Rose M. Blake-Thomas 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.
Career
Blake-Thomas was born in London. Her first role was at the age of five, when she was selected to present the CBeebiestelevision programmeGreen Balloon Club. This ran for one season between 2008 and 2009. Later in 2009, she had a minor role in the biographical television filmEnid, In 2010, she was cast in an adaptation of the Just Williamseries of books, playing Violet-Elizabeth Bott. Blake-Thomas had a role as 'Izzie', in the 2011 film Johnny English Reborn. Her first lead role was in the 2011 independent filmLittle Glory as Julie, alongside Cameron Bright. In 2012, Blake-Thomas played the part of Annabelle Crumb in the BBC Christmas adaptation of the David Walliams book Mr. Stink. She also appeared in the DreamWorks 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 '' 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.
