Age: 20
female
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.
A hunger games style thriller - 16 year old Hazel Thacker is chosen from region four of 6 to show up for testing along with other women ages 16 and older. She tries her best not to pass the Survival skills, combat skills, and intelligence tests. But after the women finish, Hazel is announced the winner and the female from region four that will compete in the yearly competition between the 6 regions to see which would qualify for a future citizen of the citadel. Hazel's best friend Sage is chosen as the male competitor. After both surviving the first two divisions of the competition, Sage is shot by a poisoned arrow in the combat division and killed. There was no romance in their relationship, but Hazel is devestated. Hazel and two other competitors are the final three that make it to the Citadel. There Hazel finds out truths and lies that she has been told or that have been hidden from her her whole life. And every other life in the regions. She is determined to find the truths and answers to her questions and the lies she was fed, and keep sacred the memory of Sage. When the son of ruler Corbin Grey, challenges her opinion, she finds herself in a sticky situation of who to trust, who is the enemy, and most importantly, can she learn to love again?
