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Mckenna Grace (born June 25, 2006) is an American actress and singer. Born in Grapevine, Texas, she began acting professionally at age five and relocated to Los Angeles, California, as a child. Her earliest roles included 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). After several small roles, she starred as a child prodigy in Gifted (2017), a breakthrough for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Grace subsequently appeared in the films I, Tonya (2017), Troop Zero (2019), and Captain Marvel (2019). During this time, she appeared in several horror projects, including The Bad Seed (2018), The Haunting of Hill House (2018), and Annabelle Comes Home (2019). For playing the abused teenager Esther Keyes in The Handmaid's Tale (2021–2022), Grace was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, making her the first child recognized for a guest acting Emmy. She appeared in the supernatural comedy films Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) as Phoebe Spengler, receiving critical praise and a Critics' Choice Super Award nomination. In 2022, Grace wrote, executive produced, and starred in The Bad Seed Returns, and portrayed Jan Broberg in A Friend of the Family. After signing with Photo Finish Records in 2020, Grace released her debut single, "Haunted House", in 2021, as part of the Ghostbusters: Afterlife soundtrack. She released two extended plays in 2023: Bittersweet 16 and Autumn Leaves, which explored pop rock and folk sounds, respectively. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mckenna Grace, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In 1979, in the quiet town of Chamberlain, Maine, sixteen-year-old Carrie White lives on the margins - bullied at school for her appearance and isolated at home by her fanatically religious mother, Margaret, whose rigid beliefs have left Carrie painfully unprepared for the realities of growing up. After a humiliating incident in the locker room triggers her first period - and a cruel public shaming led by popular girl Chris Hargensen - Carrie begins to awaken a terrifying ability: telekinesis, a power tied to her deepest fear, anger, and longing to belong. As her compassionate teacher Miss Desjardin attempts to intervene and fellow student Sue Snell seeks redemption by arranging a prom invitation through her boyfriend Tommy, Carrie dares to imagine a different version of herself - one accepted, even celebrated. But Chris, consumed by vengeance, orchestrates a brutal prank to crown Carrie prom queen only to drench her in pig’s blood before the entire school. In that shattering moment - when joy turns to betrayal - Carrie’s fragile hope collapses, and her power erupts with catastrophic force, sealing the gym and unleashing a fiery, deadly reckoning that destroys the school and claims countless lives, including Tommy’s. Traumatized and unmoored, Carrie’s devastation spreads beyond the prom, leveling parts of the town as she makes her way home to confront her mother, whose twisted love culminates in violence and death. In her final moments, Carrie shares a psychic connection with Sue, revealing the truth of her suffering before dying in her arms. Branded the “Black Prom,” the tragedy leaves a scar on the nation, with survivors grappling with guilt, blame, and unanswered questions about what truly happened - and whether Carrie White was a monster, or simply a girl who was never given a chance to be anything else.
