Please welcome Mckenna Grace to the Washington State Summer Con from June 20th through the 22nd. Mckenna is an actress and singer who has amassed a significant resume with over 70 acting credits by age 18.
Grace began acting at five, landing her first role in a commercial before making her onscreen debut as Jasmine Bernstein in Disney XD’s Crash & Bernstein (2012–2014). Her film debut followed in Goodbye World (2013), and she soon added the role of Faith Newman in The Young and the Restless (2013–2015) and appearances in The Vampire Diaries (2015) and CSI: Cyber (2015).
Grace’s breakout came in 2017 as Mary Adler, a child prodigy, in Gifted alongside Chris Evans, earning a Critics’ Choice Movie Award nomination for Best Young Performer. That year, she also portrayed young Tonya Harding in I, Tonya and starred in Amityville: The Awakening.
Known for playing younger versions of iconic characters, she’s embodied young Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel (2019), young Emma Swan in Once Upon a Time (2015), young Theo Crain in The Haunting of Hill House (2018), and young Sabrina in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018). Her horror credits include The Bad Seed (2018) and Annabelle Comes Home (2019).
In 2021, Grace played Phoebe Spengler in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, reprising the role in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), and as Esther Keyes in The Handmaid’s Tale (2021–2022), earning a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress, the first child to receive this honor.
Her upcoming projects include The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, Nobody 2, Scream 7, and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 with Matthew Lillard and Skeet Ulrich.