Ella Jae Blake is the daughter of Olivia Dunham's sister, Rachel and her estranged husband, Greg Blake. Rachel considers Ella to be more like Olivia than herself.
In the 2026 future (the future to the original timeline before it is rewritten), she works as a rookie Fringe Agent at 22 years old known as Ella Dunham, presumably due to her parents' deaths.
Original Timeline[]
Background[]
Ella was born in November 2003. ("Amber 31422")
Season One[]
Ella and her mother.
Rachel and four-year-old Ella come to stay with Olivia temporarily until Rachel finds herself a new home after suffering from marital issues with her husband, Greg.
Ella is nearly a victim of the brain-melting computer virus, though creator Brian Dempsey turned off the program when he saw, through the computer's webcam, that the would-be victim was an innocent little girl. ("The No-Brainer")
Shortly after the episode "Inner Child" (where she is described as being four years old), she turns five.
She befriended a boy named Graham and Rachel considered getting her into the same school as him for her move to Boston. ("Midnight")
Season Two[]
Olivia's big plans after taking the afternoon off.
After Olivia is on life support, Rachel states Ella is at a friend's house, as Rachel did not want Ella to see her aunt that way. ("A New Day In The Old Town")
At one point, Rachel is out of town as Ella goes to stay with Olivia for the weekend. Olivia is forced to handle the Christine Hollis kidnapping case, so Ella is babysat by the Jacobsons.
Later, Olivia is able to take the rest of the afternoon off and takes Ella to an amusement park. Ella convinces Olivia to take her on a rollercoaster. ("August")
Later, as Ella comes to visit Olivia again after her mother runs an errand in Chicago, Walter Bishop tells her a detective story to keep her entertained while her mother was out of town and Olivia was off chasing leads to track down the missing Peter Bishop. ("Brown Betty")
In the first-half of the season two finale, Olivia gave Ella a necklace originally belonging to Ella's late grandmother, Rachel and Olivia's mother before she went away on a mission. ("Over There: Part 1")
In the second-half, Olivia is informed by Bolivia that Alternate Rachel died during childbirth, and the "last few years" had been hard for Ella's grandmother, Alternate Marilyn as a result. She tells Bolivia that Ella is seven years old. ("Over There: Part 2")
Season Three[]
As Olivia is trapped in the Alternate Universe under the belief that she is her doppelgänger, she manages to cross over and contact Ella on her 7th birthday.
Olivia calls Ella.
Ella in 2026.
It is revealed both Ella and Rachel left Boston and returned to Chicago where her husband took a new job. Somehow Olivia was aware of Ella and Rachel leaving Boston off-screen before her abduction in the Season 2 finale, though it is not explained on-screen.
Ella is excited, knowing she would not forget her birthday but their contact is cut off once Olivia is pulled back over to the Other Side. ("Amber 31422")
2026[]
In a prior time loop of the Original Timeline, Peter entered the Machine and destroyed the Other Side. This caused devastation in the Prime Universe. 15 years later, Ella became a new Fringe agent under her aunt, Olivia who now runs Fringe as a public organization.
Much like the Other Side, the Prime Universe now deals with amber protocol to contain vortices. Ella is referred to as "Agent Dunham", implying that her parents have since died, as there is no sign of either of them, especially after Olivia's death and funeral.
Ella attends Olivia's funeral.
Prior to Olivia's death, Ella seems to have been taken care of by her. Ella tells Walter that she seems to remember very little "before it got bad" and Walter tells her that he is very sorry for her loss.
Peter implies to Olivia and Walter before he fades out of existence that she was one of the First People who sent the machine back in time to create a paradox. ("The Day We Died")
Alternate Timeline[]
In the new timeline, Ella is never seen again in-person.
Ella and Rachel, as they appear in photographic form in "Subject 9".
She appears in photographic form in "Subject 9" alongside her mother.
Olivia, after regaining her memories from the Original Timeline, learns that Rachel and Greg remained happily married and that Ella even has a younger brother, Eddie, named after Olivia and Rachel's grandfather.
The dialogue also explains that in the original timeline, Rachel moved closer to Chicago so that Ella could be closer to Rachel's ex-husband, Ella's father, and they were not back together the last time Olivia remembered from her previous time loop. ("Nothing As It Seems")
By the end of the series, Ella is 12 years old. She also has a 3-year-old cousin, Henrietta. ("An Enemy of Fate")
Alternate Universe[]
In the third season, it is explained that Rachel was a carrier for a medical condition unique to the parallel universe—that interferes with childbirth, known as "viral-propagated eclampsia" (VPE).
Alternate Rachel and her stillborn child died of VPE complications in approximately 2008. Both she and the child (Ella's genetic younger sibling)'s hearts gave out. ("Bloodline")
Olivia (with Bolivia's memories) also tells Madeline Stanfield in that unlike Madeline and her brother, she was close in age to her sister, and they fought a lot—but she had passed away "a couple of years ago". ("The Plateau")
During the first occurrence, Olivia mentions having a niece Ella who is "seven" (although Ella later turns seven in "Amber 31422", so this may have been Olivia rounding up). Due to the age discrepancy, the deceased child is not Ella's parallel universe equivalent, suggesting she never existed.
Trivia[]
- There is a potential discrepancy in her age. She is described as "four years old and drunk with power" by Rachel in the episode "Inner Child". However, Olivia later describes Ella being "seven" to Bolivia in "Over There: Part 2", suggesting three years have passed between Season One and Season Two. However, she only turns seven in the Season Three episode "Amber 31422".
- This can be explained as Ella turning five soon during the events of "Inner Child" (which would have to occur in 2008) and Olivia rounding Ella's age in "Over There: Part 2" before her seventh birthday.