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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.
Mckenna Grace
Emily Carter
for Emily Carter in THE SMILING SUBSTITUTE
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In the fictional town of Briarwood, Ohio, in mid-May, a strange temporary English teacher appears at the local high school — Miss Evelyn Cross. She always wears a white medical mask, speaks softly, and carries herself with an unsettling calm. To the students, she seems like an easy target for mockery — especially for the defiant teenager Jack Miller, notorious for his cruel school pranks. But one joke goes too far. After Jack’s disappearance, the school and the town try to cover it up, dismissing everything as an unfortunate accident. Only his best friend Noah begins his own investigation and uncovers a forgotten urban legend — about “The Smiling Substitute,” the spirit of a teacher who died violently decades ago after being tormented by her students. Every May, she returns to deliver one final lesson to those who cross the line.
