Age: 20
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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 1968, a fifteen-year-old girl begins documenting her life in a diary, capturing the fragile intensity of adolescence - crushes, insecurities, family tension, and a longing to belong. When her father’s new academic job forces the family to relocate, she struggles to adjust, finding brief comfort in a friendship with a girl named Beth. But a visit back to her hometown changes everything: at a party, she unknowingly takes LSD, igniting a spiral into experimentation. What begins as curiosity quickly deepens into dependence, as she chases escape through drugs, risky relationships, and a growing detachment from her former self. Her world fractures further when betrayal, exploitation, and trauma leave her unmoored, pushing her into a transient life drifting between cities, dangerous situations, and fleeting illusions of freedom. Despite moments of clarity - returning home, attempting sobriety, and reconnecting with her family - the pull of addiction and social pressure proves relentless. After a forced relapse and psychological breakdown, she is hospitalized, where she begins to piece herself back together. Upon release, she makes a genuine effort to rebuild her life, forming healthier relationships and choosing connection over isolation. For the first time, she imagines a future beyond her diary, deciding to stop writing and instead face the world openly. Yet in a haunting epilogue, that fragile hope is shattered: only weeks later, she is found dead from a drug overdose, its cause uncertain - leaving behind her diary as both a warning and a deeply personal record of a life consumed too soon.
