Season 4 of Ryan Murphy\u2019s crime anthology show, \u201cMonster,\u201d stars Ella Beatty \u2013 and while she\u2019s a new face to most audiences, she hails from Hollywood royalty.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ella,\u00a026, is the daughter of Warren Beatty, 89, and Annette Bening, 68, and through Warren\u2019s side of the family, Shirley MacLaine, 92, is her aunt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ella told E! News<\/a> in September that her parent\u2019s main advice for the role was \u201clistening.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n She noted that Warren and Bening gave her advice to, \u201cGet interested rather than be interesting,\u201d they told her, adding, \u201cYou never want to be the smartest person in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n Ella Beatty (pictured in \u201cMonster: The Lizzie Borden Story\u201d) is the daughter of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. \u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n Ella (pictured with Warren and Bening in 2016) said her parents gave her advice to \u201clisten.\u201d Getty Images for Audi<\/p>\n She praised her parents as \u201csuch incredible artists\u201d who are \u201calso so different from one another.\u201d<\/p>\n Warren and Bening tied the knot in 1992 after meeting on the set of the 1991 film \u201cBugsy.\u201d They share four children: Stephen, 34, Ben, 32, Isabel, 29, and Ella.<\/p>\n During a May 2024 interview with The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal<\/a>, Ella said that she and her siblings had recently watched \u201cBugsy.\u201d<\/p>\n Bening and Beatty (pictured in 2016) have been married since 1992 and share four kids. Getty Images for GQ<\/p>\n Warren (pictured in 2004 with Annette and their children) gets \u201cdevastated\u201d when Ella hasn\u2019t seen his movies, she said. WireImage<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so special to see your parents falling in love. Oh my gosh, how romantic!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n She noted that Warren was \u201cdevastated\u201d every time she told him she hadn\u2019t seen one of his movies.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI definitely have more to go,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m so inspired by [my parents], every time I see something they\u2019ve done, I hope I can carry the torch on.\u201d<\/p>\n The actress plays the titular role in \u201cMonster: The Lizzie Borden Story.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cMonster: The Lizzie Borden Story\u201d is the fourth season of Ryan Murphy\u2019s crime anthology show. Netflix<\/p>\n Lizzie Borden was accused of axe murdering her father and stepmother in 1892. COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/p>\n The show follows the famed 1892 case in which Borden was accused of axe murdering her father, played by Charlie Hunnam and stepmother, played by Rebecca Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n Each season of the Emmy winning series has dramatized a different true crime case, including serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer <\/a>(played by Evan Peters), the Menendez brothers<\/a> (played by Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez), and Ed Gein <\/a>(played by Hunnam).\u00a0<\/p>\n