Career
Keats"s most notable roles were in the Disney musical drama film Newsies, Garry Marshall"s Frankie and Johnny, the biographical survival drama Alive and the horror film Insidious: Chapter 3. She has also appeared in more than one hundred national television commercials. Born in Paris, France, to copywriter Sacha Georgescu and Ford model January McGuire, Keats was raised in New York City, Europe and Los Los Angeles
She began her professional career as a young model, being featured in publications such as American Baby, Ladies" Home Journal & Teen Magazine.
After moving to Los Angeles she launched her acting career at fifteen, being featured in a Michael Jackson Pepsi Commercial. Quickly establishing herself as a familiar face on television, Keats has appeared in more than one hundred television commercials, including the 1990 Levi"s jeans beach adjunct
Building on her newfound success, small television roles quickly followed, including the pilot for The Outsiders, produced by Francis Ford Coppola and episodes of the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom Dear John starring Judd Hirsch. When she was still in her teens, Keats landed a regular role on Fox"s daily soap opera Tribes as Anny, a pregnant teen girl.
Small big screen-appearances followed in The Rocketeer and Mike Figgis" Liebestraum.
A rapid succession of bigger roles followed in films such as There Goes My Baby (filmed in 1990 but released in 1994 due to Orion Pictures" bankruptcy), Garry Marshall"s Frankie and Johnny (opposite First Rate (at Lloyd's) Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer), the Disney musical Newsies (as Sarah Jacobs, Christian Bale"s love interest) and Frank Marshall"s acclaimed drama Alive. During the 1990s, Keats also landed leading and supporting role on television and independent projects such as Lipstick Camera, the Los Angeles-based comedy Cityscrapes: Los Angeles, Disney Channel"s White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild, Frank LaLoggia"s thriller Mother (opposite Diane Ladd and Olympia Dukakis) and the Fox sci-fi pilot White Dwarf, again produced by Francis Ford Coppola. She also appeared in numerous popular television series, including Diagnosis: Murder, Class of "96, Touched by an Angel and Music Television"s Undressed.
With several of her films debuting at the Venice Festival and the Sundance Festival, Keats has moved her acting career forward during the 2000s, with roles in Steven Soderbergh"s Eros (opposite Robert Downey Junior), March and independent filmmaker Heidi Van Leer"s comedies Monday and American Decaf.
On television, she guest-starred in renowned series such as Computer Society of India: Crime Scene Investigation, Computer Society of India: New York, Cold Case and Greek and has continued to appear in numerous national television commercials. Apart from her job as an actress, Keats has launched her own jewelry line in 2005, Ele Keats Jewelry.
As a jewelry designer, Keats specializes in inspirational and birthstone designs. Her creations have been featured in several magazines, worn in many movies and television shows and received an overwhelming response from celebrity clientele, who praise her inspirational designs as “simply stunning.” Keats counts Diane Keaton, Elizabeth Berkley, Poppy Montgomery, Cameron Diaz, and Mandy Moore among her clients.
The Ele Keats Jewelry official shop was opened in 2013 in Brentwood, Los Los Angeles
Her sister is actress Caitlin Keats.
