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Mckenna Grace, born June 25, 2006, is an American actress and singer. She appeared as Jasmine Bernstein in the Disney XD sitcom Crash & Bernstein from 2012 to 2014 and played Faith Newman in the soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2013 to 2015. She starred as a child prodigy in the film Gifted (2017), which earned her a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Grace also played younger versions of characters in films such as I, Tonya (2017), Captain Marvel (2019), and the series The Haunting of Hill House (2018). Her lead roles include The Bad Seed (2018), Troop Zero (2019), and Annabelle Comes Home (2019). She portrayed Esther Keyes in The Handmaid's Tale (2021–2022), earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, becoming the first child actor to be recognized in this category for guest acting. Additionally, she played Phoebe Spengler in the films Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), receiving critical praise and a Critics' Choice Super Award nomination.