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Mckenna Grace

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Biography

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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mckenna Grace, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

I, Tonya

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Scream 7

As Hannah Thurman

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

As Phoebe

Captain Marvel

As Young Carol (13 Years Old)

The Haunting of Hill House

As Young Theodora

Five Nights at Freddy's 2

As Lisa

Regretting You

As Clara Grant

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

As Phoebe Spengler

Chains

KinoChain journeys

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The Art of the Fall

From viral infamy to quiet vindication: a chain of films about bold artists whose audacity is mistaken for failure, tracing the same arc that turned Raygun from...

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