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 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.
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Primarily2026 The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as Maysilee Donner
2026 PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie as Skye (voice)
2026 Scream 7
2025 Five Nights at Freddy's 2
2025 Anniversary as Birdie
2025 Regretting You as Clara Grant
2025 New Year's Rev
2025 Perfect as Dominique Moceanu
2025 Straight Lies Executive Producer
2025 Rabbit Cake as Elvis Babbit Producer
2025 Everything I Never Did as Jenna Reid
2025 The Nowhere Game as Carin
2025 99 Days as Molly
2025 Slanted
2025 What We Hide as Spider Executive Producer
2024 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire as Phoebe Spengler
2023 PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie as Skye (voice)
2023 Crater as Addison
2022 The Bad Seed Returns as Emma Grossman Executive Producer, Teleplay, Story
2021 Ghostbusters: Afterlife as Phoebe Spengler
2021 Malignant as Young Madison
2021 Spirit Untamed as Abigail Stone (voice)
2020 Blackbear: Queen of Broken Hearts as Girl
2020 Scoob! as Young Daphne (voice)
2019 Annabelle Comes Home as Judy Warren
2019 Captain Marvel as Young Carol (13 Years Old)
2019 Troop Zero as Christmas Flint
2018 The Haunting of Hill House as Young Theodora
2018 The Bad Seed as Emma
2018 Ready Player One as Elementary Kid
2018 Lucky Penny as Paige
2017 I, Tonya as Tonya (8-12 Yrs)
2017 Amityville: The Awakening as Juliet Walker
2017 Gifted as Mary Adler
2017 How to Be a Latin Lover as Arden
2016 Mr. Church as Izzy
2016 Independence Day: Resurgence as Daisy
2016 The Angry Birds Movie as Ella Bird (voice)
2015 Frankenstein as Molly
2015 Genie in a Bikini as Teresa
2015 Babysitter's Black Book as Cindy
2015 Russell Madness as Lena
2015 The Pearl Whale
2014 Suburban Gothic as Zelda
2013 Goodbye World as Hannah
2013 R as Riley (Young)