Joelle Mia Renee Joelle, better known by her stage name Joelle, is a British actress, singer, songwriter, and director. She was born in 1998.
Joelle was diagnosed with alopecia universalis at the age of 8, a condition which causes the complete absence of all hair on the head and body. She became Young Person's Ambassador for the UK's largest alopecia charity "Alopecia UK" at 15.
Joelle made her first media appearances at 13, campaigning about bullying awareness on ABC news in the US and on national UK TV. Her TV appearances followed extensive press coverage of a home-made music video Big in LA that Joelle had uploaded to YouTube. Big in LA was nominated for a Golden Trellick Award at the 2013 Portobello Film Festival in London and won the Best Music Video award at the 9th annual LA Femme International Film Festival in Los Angeles.
In 2019, Joelle directed and performed in her first short film, Cover Up, featuring original sound recordings co-created with thirteen-time Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren, who wrote the lyrics and music.
In 2021, Joelle made her feature film debut in Denis Villeneuve's Dune. In 2022, she played the character Joelle in Paul Feig's Netflix original film The School for Good and Evil.
She also stars in MGM+'s and Sky's second season of Domina as Vipsania.
