Mckenna Grace
Acting
Born: Jun 25, 2006
From: Grapevine, Texas, USA
Credits: 30 titles
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slanted | Jo Hunt | 2026 | 6.5 |
| Anniversary | Birdie Taylor | 2025 | 6.8 |
| What We Hide | Spider | 2025 | 6.328 |
| Regretting You | Clara Grant | 2025 | 6.971 |
| Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | Phoebe Spengler | 2024 | 6.5 |
| PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie | Skye (voice) | 2023 | 6.988 |
| The Bad Seed Returns | Emma Grossman | 2022 | 6.907 |
| Troop Zero | Christmas Flint | 2019 | 6.95 |
| Annabelle Comes Home | Judy Warren | 2019 | 6.406 |
| Lucky Penny | Paige | 2018 | 7.0 |
| Ready Player One | Elementary Kid | 2018 | 7.583 |
| The Bad Seed | Emma | 2018 | 7.02 |
| Gifted | Mary Adler | 2017 | 7.996 |
| Amityville: The Awakening | Juliet Walker | 2017 | 5.356 |
| How to Be a Latin Lover | Arden | 2017 | 6.888 |
| I, Tonya | Tonya (8-12 Yrs) | 2017 | 7.5 |
| Independence Day: Resurgence | Daisy | 2016 | 5.356 |
| The Angry Birds Movie | Ella Bird (voice) | 2016 | 6.257 |
| Mr. Church | Izzy | 2016 | 7.402 |
| The Pearl Whale | 2015 | 1.0 | |
| Babysitter's Black Book | Cindy | 2015 | 5.5 |
| Frankenstein | Molly | 2015 | 5.4 |
| Russell Madness | Lena | 2015 | 5.1 |
| Genie in a Bikini | Teresa | 2015 | 4.0 |
| Suburban Gothic | Zelda | 2014 | 5.5 |
| R | Riley (Young) | 2013 | 8.5 |
| Goodbye World | Hannah | 2013 | 5.4 |
| 99 Days | Molly | — | |
| Straight Lies | — | ||
| Everything I Never Did | Jenna Reid | — | |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 2006 |
| From | Grapevine, Texas, USA |