Mckenna Grace
Acting
Biography
Mckenna Grace Burge (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 minor roles, she starred as a child prodigy in Gifted (2017), a breakthrough for which she received 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, 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.
Born: June 25, 2006
Place of Birth: Grapevine, Texas, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Maysilee Donner
as Skye (voice)
as Birdie
as Clara Grant
as Spider
as Natalia / Nocturna (voice)
as Phoebe Spengler
as Skye (voice)
as Addison
as Jan Broberg
as Emma Grossman
as Abigail (voice)
as Phoebe Spengler
as Veronica
as Young Madison
as Abigail Stone (voice)
as Young Daphne (voice)
as The Grandson
as Self - Musical Guest
as Self
as Judy Warren
as Young Carol (13 Years Old)
as Christmas Flint
as Self
as Young Sabrina Spellman
as Young Theodora
as Emma
as Elementary Kid
as Tonya (8-12 Yrs)
as Paige Swanson
as Juliet Walker
as Esther Keyes
as Mary Adler
as Arden
as Penny Kirkman
as Izzy
as Daisy
as Ella Bird (voice)
as Rose Harbenberger
as Avery
as Molly
as Teresa
as Cindy
as Lena
as Quinn
as Zelda
as Tinia (voice)
as Hannah
as Self
as Jules
as Jasmine Bernstein
as Additional Voices (voice)
as Young Emma Swan
as Young Abby Fisher
as Self - Guest