Ellie is Manny’s mate in Ice Age: The Meltdown.
Ellie is introduced in the second Ice Age film as a female woolly mammoth who believes she is a possum because she was raised alongside the possum brothers Crash and Eddie. Her unusual upbringing creates much of the film’s early comedy, while her relationship with Manny develops during the group’s journey.
Queen Latifah provides Ellie’s voice. The character becomes an important member of the herd and remains part of the main story in later films. Ellie and Manny eventually have a daughter named Peaches, whose name is established in Ice Age: Continental Drift.
Ellie is sometimes confused with Shira, Diego’s mate, or Brooke, a character introduced much later. Those are separate characters, and Ellie is specifically Manny’s partner.