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Mckenna Grace
Birthdate: June 25, 2006 (19 Years Old)
Birthplace: Grapevine, Texas, USA
Mckenna Grace is a veteran child actor who has developed into a talented and prolific teenage actor with over two dozen feature credits since her debut in director/producer/co-writer Denis Henry Hennelly’s apocalyptic drama, Goodbye World (2013), with Adrien Grenier and Gaby Hoffmann.
Grace was cast in a supporting role in writer-director Richard Bates Jr.’s horror comedy, Suburban Gothic (2014), starring Kat Dennings and Matthew Gray Gubler, followed by a supporting role in the Bruce Beresford-directed drama, Mr. Church (2016), with Eddie Murphy starring in his first feature role in four years.
Grace took on her first voice role in an animated feature with The Angry Birds Movie (2016), produced by Columbia Pictures and Rovio Animation. Grace continued to earn castings in major movies with a role in director/producer/writer Roland Emmerich’s $390-million-grossing sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), with Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, and Bill Pullman. Mckenna Grace had her first co-starring feature role in the Mark Webb-directed drama from Fox Searchlight, Gifted (2017), in which Grace played an intellectually gifted child with Chris Evans and Octavia Spencer, grossing $43 million worldwide.
Grace’s busy 2017 continued with roles in the $63-million-grossing comedy, How to Be a Latin Lover (2017); in director-writer Franck Khalfoun’s horror sequel, Amityville: The Awakening (2017), with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bella Thorne; and in an attention-getting turn as the young Tonya Harding in the Craig Gillespie-directed biopic, I, Tonya (2017), starring Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, and Allison Janney, and grossing $54 million.
Mckenna Grace met Steven Spielberg for the first—and possibly, not last—time in a role in Spielberg’s sci-fi Ready Player One (2018), starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Mark Rylance, and Ben Mendelsohn, and earning a $592 million global gross. Grace again played the younger self of the main character (in this case, Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel) in directors-writers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel (2019), with Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Annette Bening, and grossing $1.13 billion worldwide.
Grace’s second co-starring role was in the comedy-drama, Troop Zero (2019), with Viola Davis, Jim Gaffigan, Mike Epps, and Allison Janney, and directed by the British duo, Bert (Amber Templemore-Finlayson) and Bertie (Katie Ellwood). Mckenna Grace landed the starring role opposite Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson in the hit horror sequel ($231 million gross), Annabelle Comes Home (2019), from producer James Wan and writer-director Gary Dauberman.
Starting with Scoob! (2020), Grace performed in more voice roles in animated features, including DreamWorks Animation’s disappointing Spirit Untamed (2021), and a co-starring role in director-writer Cal Brunker’s sequel, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023), with Marsai Martin, Kim Kardashian, and Taraji P. Henson, and released by Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Movies.
Grace played support in another Wan-produced and directed horror movie, Malignant (2021), with Annabelle Wallis and Maddie Hasson. Grace was cast in another leading role in co-writer/director Jason Reitman’s hit sequel ($204 million global gross), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), with Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, and Ernie Hudson; Grace also co-starred in the the sequel, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), reuniting original cast members Bill Murray, Dan Ayckroyd and Ernie Hudson, under co-writer Gil Kenan’s direction and grossing $202 million for Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing.
Grace starred in director/writer/producer Dan Kay’s indie American drama, What We Hide (2025, originally titled Spider & Jessie), with Jojo Regina, Forrest Goodluck, Malia Baker and Jesse Williams, released by Gravitas Ventures, and then Grace joined the cast of director/writer/producer Amy Wang’s comedy drama, Slanted (2025), with Shirley Chen and Fang Du, premiering in 2025 in competition at the South by Southwest Film Festival and released in 2026 by Bleecker Street and backed by Fox Entertainment Studios.
Grace co-starred with Mason Thames, Sean Gunn, Fred Armisen and Jenna Fischer in director/writer Lee Kirk’s Green Day-themed musical comedy, New Year’s Rev (2025), produced by Live Nation Productions, and then Grace co-starred with Allison Williams, Thames and Dave Franco in the Josh Boone-directed movie version of Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You (2025), produced by Constantin Film and released by Paramount Pictures.
Mckenna Grace was part of the ensemble of director/story writer Jan Komasa’s thriller, Anniversary (2025), co-starring Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Madeline Brewer, Zoey Deutch, and Phoebe Dynevor, and released by Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions. Grace then joined the existing cast of the original movie for the Blumhouse Productions sequel, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025), with Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Wayne Knight, Teo Briones, Matthew Lillard, and Skeet Ulrich under Emma Tammi’s direction, and released by Universal Pictures.
Grace jumped aboard another sequel, Scream 7 (2026), co-starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Mason Gooding, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Joel McHale, and David Arquette under the direction of the franchise creator, Kevin Williamson, produced by Spyglass Media Group/Project X Entertainment/Outerbanks Entertainment, and released by Paramount Pictures. Grace reprised her voice role as the cockapoo Skye in director/co-writer Cal Brunker’s Canadian animated franchise sequel, Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie (2026), with the voice cast of Ron Pardo, Jennifer Hudson, Terry Crews, Snoop Dogg, Bill Nye, Paris Hilton and Meredith MacNeill, released by Paramount Pictures/Nickleodeon Movies (U.S.)/Elevation Pictures (Canada).
Mckenna Grace starred in the Hunger Games prequel, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026), adapted by writer Billy Ray from Suzanne Collins’ 2025 novel, co-starring Joseph Zada, Whitney Peak, Jesse Plemons, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Maya Hawke, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, Lili Taylor, Billy Porter, Glenn Close and Ralph Fiennes under Francis Lawrence’s direction, and released by Lionsgate.
