Mckenna Grace (born June 25, 2006 in Grapevine, Texas) is an American child/teen actress and musician.
She's probably best known for her role in Marc Webb's Gifted, as well as for playing the young versions of several big-name roles. Despite her young age, she's already amassed a surprisingly strong resume since she began acting at age 6, having worked with the previously mentioned Webb, Steven Spielberg, Craig Gillespie and Roland Emmerich.
Has a Twitter
and an Instagram.
Filmography:
- Crash & Bernstein (2012-14) as Jasmine Bernstein
- The Young and the Restless (2013-15) as Faith Newman
- Gravity Falls (2014) as Additional Voices (voice)
- The Bridge (2014) as Girl
- Clarence (2014) as Tinia (voice)
- CSI (2014) as Young Abby Fisher
- K.C. Undercover (2015) as Quinn
- The Vampire Diaries (2015) as Young Caroline Forbes
- CSI: Cyber (2015) as Michelle Mundo
- Frankenstein (2015) as Molly
- Dog with a Blog (2015) as Jules
- Pickle and Peanut (2015) as Cindy, Sugarbee (voice)
- Once Upon a Time (2015, 2017) as Young Emma Swan
- Teachers (2016) as Avery
- The Lion Guard (2016-17) as Kambuni (voice)
- The Angry Birds Movie (2016) as Ella Bird (voice)
- Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) as Daisy Blackwell
- Elena of Avalor (2016, 2018) as Bella (voice)
- Designated Survivor (2016-19) as Penny Kirkman
- Bizaardvark (2016) as Didi
- Fuller House (2016-18, 2020) as Rose Harbenberger
- Mickey and the Roadster Racers (2017-present) as Bitsy Beagleberg (voice)
- Gifted (2017) as Mary Adler
- Amityville: The Awakening (2017) as Juliet Walker
- I, Tonya (2017) as Young Tonya Harding
- Ready Player One (2018) as Elementary Kid
- The Bad Seed (2018) as Emma Grossman
- The Bad Seed Returns (2022) as Emma Grossman (also co-wrote and co-produced)
- Troop Zero (2019) as Christmas Flint
- Young Sheldon (2018, 2020-present) as Paige Swanson
- The Haunting of Hill House (2018) as Young Theo Cain
- Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) as Young Sabrina Spellman
- Captain Marvel (2019) as Young Carol Danvers
- Annabelle Comes Home (2019) as Judy Warren
- Home Movie: The Princess Bride (2020) as The Grandson
- SCOOB! (2020) as Young Daphne Blake (voice)
- The Handmaid's Tale (2021) as Esther Keyes
- Spirit Untamed (2021) as Abigail Stone (voice)
- Malignant (2021) as Young Maddy
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) as Phoebe Spengler
- A Friend Of The Family (2022) as Jan Broberg
She provides examples of:
- Dye Hard: Regularly changes hair colour/style for her roles and makes a point of announcing this via "transition posts" on her Instagram account.
- Playing Against Type:
- As the cold-blooded, psychopathic Creepy Child Emma Grossman in the Lifetime adaptation of The Bad Seed.
- Downplayed in Spirit Untamed, where she plays a more ditzy comic relief, contrasting the Child Prodigies that she usually is known for playing.
- Time-Shifted Actor: As her resume indicates above, she tends to be cast as the younger self of a work's major character.
- In A Friend of the Family, she gained her own "younger self" with Hendrick Yancey as a younger version of ger character.
