Mckenna Grace
Known For
Acting
Born
2006-06-25 in Grapevine, Texas, USA
Biography
Mckenna Grace (born June 25, 2006) is an American actress and singer. Born in Grapevine, Texas, she began acting professionally at age five and relocated to Los Angeles, California, as a child. Her earliest roles included Jasmine Bernstein in the Disney XD sitcom Crash & Bernstein (2012–2014) and Faith Newman in the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2013–2015). After several small roles, she starred as a child prodigy in Gifted (2017), a breakthrough for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Grace subsequently appeared in the films I, Tonya (2017), Troop Zero (2019), and Captain Marvel (2019). During this time, she appeared in several horror projects, including The Bad Seed (2018), The Haunting of Hill House (2018), and Annabelle Comes Home (2019). For playing the abused teenager Esther Keyes in The Handmaid's Tale (2021–2022), Grace was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, making her the first child recognized for a guest acting Emmy. She appeared in the supernatural comedy films Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) as Phoebe Spengler, receiving critical praise and a Critics' Choice Super Award nomination. In 2022, Grace wrote, executive produced, and starred in The Bad Seed Returns, and portrayed Jan Broberg in A Friend of the Family. After signing with Photo Finish Records in 2020, Grace released her debut single, "Haunted House", in 2021, as part of the Ghostbusters: Afterlife soundtrack. She released two extended plays in 2023: Bittersweet 16 and Autumn Leaves, which explored pop rock and folk sounds, respectively. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mckenna Grace, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Young Abby Fisher
The Vampire Diaries
as Young Caroline
Young Sheldon
as Paige Swanson
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self - Musical Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
Once Upon a Time
as Young Emma Swan
The View
as Self - Guest
The Handmaid's Tale
as Esther Keyes
Gravity Falls
as Additional Voices (voice)
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
as Lisa
Scream 7
as Hannah Thurman
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
as Young Sabrina Spellman
Designated Survivor
as Penny Kirkman
Clarence
as Tinia (voice)
The Masked Singer
as Self - Clue Giver
Regretting You
as Clara Grant
The Last Leg
as Self
Marvel Studios Legends
as Young Carol (Archive Footage)
Fuller House
as Rose Harbenberger
Krapopolis
as Voice