Performing has been second nature to 13-year-old Ellie Smith since her parents first heard her trying to "sing" along as Christmas carols played during her very first Christmas. Since then, Ellie has performed throughout the U.S. in song, theater and dance.

Earning the nickname "The Star-Spangled Girl," she has sung the National Anthem before crowds totaling more than a million people for various Major League Baseball and National Basketball League games, and at numerous other sporting, civic and charitable events throughout the United States.

At age 10, Ellie was honored to be chosen by music producer David Foster to perform at the Agassi Grand Slam Benefit, appearing along with Tony Bennett, Kelly Clarkson, Hall & Oates, Santana and Matchbox Twenty. Later in 2007, she performed with Jack Jones, Clint Holmes and Tony Bennett at a major benefit honoring Mrs. Bennett, bringing down the house with her rendition of his classic Lullaby of Broadway. Ellie has appeared on stage with Sally Struthers in the Nevada Conservatory Theater's production of Annie, directed by Broadway's renowned Glenn Casale, and recently played the role of 12-year-old Molly in Neil Simon's Jake's Women at Las Vegas' Little Theater. During its Summer Season 2008, Ellie starred in Regional Theater in Tuacahn in St. George, Utah, at the 2,000-seat Amphitheater's Broadway in the Desert, as Young Cosette in Les Miserables, and as Brigitta in The Sound of Music.

In 2009, Ellie starred at Tuacahn again, this time as Annie in the musical Annie, as well as Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival.