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Mckenna Grace is the American actor who portrays young Emma Swan on ABC's Once Upon a Time.
Biography
Mckenna was born on June 25, 2006.[1] When she turned five, her great-grandparents gave her a DVD collection of old Shirley Temple movies. After watching them, she became interested in acting and started attending a local acting class. The people running it took notice of her talent and her parents were put in touch with an agent. Within a week, she booked her first job, a commercial for the YMCA.[2]
She had her first acting audition while on vacation with her family in Los Angeles.[3] There, she auditioned for the 2013 drama film Goodbye World,[2] which landed her her first film role.[3] Mckenna made her acting debut in 2013, playing Sydney in the television pilot Joe, Joe & Jane.[4] Later she recurred on the Disney XD series Crash & Bernstein.[1] Her father was accepted into an orthopedic surgery residency program and the family re-located to Los Angeles after she landed her first recurring television role at the age of seven.[2][3]
Mckenna had a recurring part playing Faith Newman on more than 50 episodes of the soap opera The Young and the Restless between 2013 and 2015.[5] In 2015 she had a recurring role on the CBS series CSI: Cyber.[5] The next year, she played the role of Daisy in the science fiction thriller film Independence Day: Resurgence[6] She also filmed the significant role of Juliet in the horror film Amityville: The Awakening.[7] Mckenna plays a lead role in the 2017 drama film Gifted,[8] about an intellectually gifted 7-year-old who gets caught up in a custody battle between her uncle and grandmother. She also starred as young Theo Crain in the 2018 Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House.[9] In 2019, she starred as Judy Warren, daughter of Ed and Lorraine Warren, in the horror film Annabelle Comes Home.[10] In 2021, she played Esther Keyes in two episodes of the fourth season of the dystopian television series The Handmaid's Tale.[11]
Despite her young age, Mckenna has booked more than 50 TV and movie roles over the years. Other roles of notes includes the role of Penny Kirkman in the ABC television series Designated Survivor, young Caroline in The Vampire Diaries episode "Let Her Go", the voice of Ella bird in the computer-animated action-adventure comedy film The Angry Birds Movie, Rose in the Netflix sitcom Fuller House,[12] the 2017 comedy film How to Be a Latin Lover[13] young Tonya Harding in the 2017 biographical sports drama film I, Tonya,[14] (which also features Once Upon a Time guest star Sebastian Stan as Tonya's husband), and Paige Swanson on the sitcom series Young Sheldon.[15] She also plays young Carol Danvers in the 2019 Marvel superhero movie Captain Marvel.[16] In 2021, appeared as one of the leads in the movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife.[17]
Trivia
- Mckenna and her older self, Jennifer Morrison, both have roles in the 2017 horror film Amityville: The Awakening,[18] where Jennifer plays Mckenna's aunt.
- She has a Morkie named Marshmallow and a Pomeranian named Baby Unicorn.[19]
- Her favorite movies are E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Wizard of Oz and anything by Tim Burton. She has watched Edward Scissorhands more than fifty times.[19]
- Has been a vegetarian since she was 7 years old because of her love for animals.[19] She has directed her affection for animals towards work with Farm Sanctuary and PETA, including appearing in a campaign asking people not to leave their dogs in hot cars.[20]
- Attended the same school as her Once Upon a Time co-star, Jared S. Gilmore.[21]
- Kept the candy-bar wrapper from the episode "The Dark Swan" as a souvenir of her first episode.[22]
- Acts opposite Once Upon a Time co-star Raphael Alejandro in the 2017 comedy How to Be a Latin Lover, where Mckenna plays a classmate Raphael's character has a crush on.[23]
- Learned ice-skating to portray young Tonya Harding in I, Tonya.[2]
- Briefly acts opposite fellow Once Upon a Time actor Ernie Hudson in the movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
Appearances
| Once Upon a Time: Season Five | |||||||||||
| "The Dark Swan": | "The Price": | "Siege Perilous": | "The Broken Kingdom": | "Dreamcatcher": | "The Bear and the Bow": | "Nimue": | "Birth": | "The Bear King": | "Broken Heart": | "Swan Song": | |
| Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Archive | Archive | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | |
| "Souls of the Departed": | "Labor of Love": | "Devil's Due": | "The Brothers Jones": | "Our Decay": | "Her Handsome Hero": | "Ruby Slippers": | "Sisters": | "Firebird": | "Last Rites": | "Only You": | "An Untold Story": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| Once Upon a Time: Season Six | ||||||||||
| "The Savior": | "A Bitter Draught": | "The Other Shoe": | "Strange Case": | "Street Rats": | "Dark Waters": | "Heartless": | "I'll Be Your Mirror": | "Changelings": | "Wish You Were Here": | "Tougher Than the Rest": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears |
| "Murder Most Foul": | "Ill-Boding Patterns": | "Page 23": | "A Wondrous Place": | "Mother's Little Helper": | "Awake": | "Where Bluebirds Fly": | "The Black Fairy": | "The Song in Your Heart": | "The Final Battle Part 1": | "The Final Battle Part 2": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent |
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.
External links
Official Website of Mckenna Grace- Mckenna Grace on Internet Movie Database
- Mckenna Grace on Wikipedia
- @MckennaGraceful (Mckenna Grace) on X, formerly Twitter
- @mckennagraceful (Mckenna Grace) on Instagram
References
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