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Mckenna Grace

Actor

Mckenna Grace

Born June 25, 2006 in Grapevine, Texas, USA45 films

Mckenna Grace (born June 25, 2006) is an American actress and singer. 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.

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Grace garnered further recognition for playing younger versions of characters in I, Tonya (2017), The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and Captain Marvel (2019), and for her lead roles in The Bad Seed (2018), Troop Zero (2019), 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 portrayed Phoebe Spengler in the supernatural comedy films Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), 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. She then starred in the romantic drama Regretting You (2025), the supernatural horror Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) and the slasher Scream 7 (2026).

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.

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Gifted posterFirst watchGifted20178.0as Mary AdlerFrank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.View film

Essential films

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Ready Player One poster7.6Ready Player One2018Captain Marvel poster6.8Captain Marvel2019I, Tonya poster7.5I, Tonya2017Ghostbusters: Afterlife poster7.3Ghostbusters: Afterlife2021Malignant poster6.7Malignant2021Annabelle Comes Home poster6.4Annabelle Comes Home2019Scoob! poster7.0Scoob!2020The Angry Birds Movie poster6.3The Angry Birds Movie2016

Filmography

45 films as actor
  1. TBA99 DaysMolly
  2. TBAStraight Lies
  3. TBAThe Nowhere GameCarin
  4. TBAThe Official MistressComtesse Madeleine de Vascone
  5. TBAEverything I Never DidJenna Reid
  6. TBARabbit CakeElvis Babbitt
  7. 2026The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the ReapingMaysilee Donner / Merrilee Donner
  8. 2026The Last KissLaurel Hansen
  9. 2026NimrodsOlivia
  10. 2026PAW Patrol: The Dino MovieSkye (voice)
  11. 2026SlantedJo Hunt
  12. 2026Scream 7Hannah Thurman
  13. 2025Five Nights at Freddy's 2Lisa
  14. 2025AnniversaryBirdie Taylor
  15. 2025Regretting YouClara Grant
  16. 2025What We HideSpider
  17. 2024Ghostbusters: Frozen EmpirePhoebe Spengler
  18. 2023PAW Patrol: The Mighty MovieSkye (voice)
  19. 2023CraterAddison
  20. 2022The Bad Seed ReturnsEmma Grossman
  21. 2021Ghostbusters: AfterlifePhoebe
  22. 2021MalignantYoung Madison
  23. 2021Spirit UntamedAbigail Stone (voice)
  24. 2020Scoob!Young Daphne (voice)
  25. 2019Annabelle Comes HomeJudy Warren
  26. 2019Captain MarvelYoung Carol (13 Years Old)
  27. 2019Troop ZeroChristmas Flint
  28. 2018The Bad SeedEmma
  29. 2018Ready Player OneElementary Kid
  30. 2018Lucky PennyPaige
  31. 2017I, TonyaTonya (8-12 Yrs)
  32. 2017Amityville: The AwakeningJuliet Walker
  33. 2017GiftedMary Adler
  34. 2017How to Be a Latin LoverArden
  35. 2016Mr. ChurchIzzy
  36. 2016Independence Day: ResurgenceDaisy
  37. 2016The Angry Birds MovieElla Bird (voice)
  38. 2015FrankensteinMolly
  39. 2015Genie in a BikiniTeresa
  40. 2015Babysitter's Black BookCindy
  41. 2015Russell MadnessLena
  42. 2015The Pearl Whale
  43. 2014Suburban GothicZelda
  44. 2013Goodbye WorldHannah
  45. 2013RRiley (Young)