Mckenna Grace is an American actress and singer. She began acting professionally at the age of six, with her earliest roles including 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).
She was born on June 25, 2006. Grace is a vegetarian and has directed her affection for animals towards work with Farm Sanctuary and PETA, including appearing in a campaign reminding people not to leave their dogs in hot cars.
In 2018 and 2019, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the top 30 stars under age 18. She is known for her roles as Mary Adler in the 2017 film Gifted and Phoebe Spengler in the 2021 film Ghostbusters: Afterlife. She released her first song in 2021 titled “Haunted House” with the release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Following this release, she began her music career.
Is McKenna Grace a child prodigy?
Mckenna Grace doesn’t know how to do college-level calculus like Mary, the 7-year-old she plays in the movie “Gifted,” but math happens to be her favorite subject, too.
“Mary and I do have some things in common,” the 10-year-old actress told KidsPost. In the new drama, Mckenna plays a first-grade math genius who lives in Central Florida with her Uncle Frank (Chris Evans, who also plays Captain America).
Frank doesn’t want Mary to grow up without friends — as his sister, Mary’s dead mother, did — so he sends her to public school. On her first day of school, however, Mary proves just how boring regular classes can be for a truly gifted kid by answering every math problem her teacher can come up with.
To prepare for her big role, Mckenna, who has been acting professionally since she was 6, did her own homework — watching award-winning movies suggested by her director, Marc Webb. All of them starred young actors or were about child prodigies (kids who are very advanced at a skill).