Mckenna Grace has been a fixture on TV shows and movie sets since she was seven, which explains why her 70+ IMDb credits include major gigs in I, Tonya, Gifted, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Come November 2026, Grace will star as Maysilee Donner, one of the District 12 tributes in the Hunger Games prequel Sunrise on the Reaping. Upcoming projects include Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, Scream 7, plus Regretting You and New Year’s Rev with Mason Thames. If that’s not enough McKenna Grace for you, stream her debut album, Bittersweet 16, and her latest single, “Swim Team.”

What was your first job?
My first job was probably either a commercial for Chuckie Cheese or for the YMCA. I remember for Chucky Cheese, I had to fly a kite, and that’s all I remember. I was really young for that.

Which celebrity’s red carpet outfit of all time lives rent-free in your brain?
Gwyneth Paltrow’s pink dress at the Oscars. Obsessed. All of Emmy Rossum’s looks from the early 2000s, ‘90s—her dress at the Phantom of the Opera premiere. Jennifer Lawrence, whenever she won her Oscar and fell on the stairs and her dress was dramatically sprawled behind her. Anything that Florence Pugh wears.

Who should play you in your biopic?
Kiernan Shipka. Or I could play her in her biopic. Nobody would know the difference!