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Mckenna Grace Burge (born June 25, 2006) is an American actress and singer. Her earliest roles included Jasmine Bernstein in the sitcom (2012–2014) and in the soap opera (2013–2015). After several small roles, she starred as a child prodigy in (2017), a breakthrough for which she received a nomination for the .
Mckenna Grace Burge was born on June 25, 2006, in . She is the only child of Ross Burge, an , and Crystal Grace, a medical . She lived in as a young child. Grace trained in cheerleading, gymnastics, , and ballet. She participated in , where she was crowned “Tiny Miss Texas”.
In 2021, Grace voiced a silly and energetic horserider in the animated film and played the young version of ‘s character in the horror film . Grace had a leading role as Phoebe Spengler in the supernatural comedy (2021), the sequel to (1984) and (1989). For the role, she cut and dyed her hair. The film was released theatrically on November 19, 2021, and became a moderate commercial success, grossing over $204million on a budget of $75million. Critics were generally ambivalent towards the film, though they commended Grace’s performance. of asserted that “[] has its moments, most of them owing to a quite-phenomenal Mckenna Grace”, and considered her performance “instantly unforgettable[,]… truly revelatory, [and] star-making”. Grace was nominated for the for Best Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie.
Grace signed with in 2020 and released her debut single, “Haunted House”, alongside a music video in November 2021. She co-wrote the song alongside Lily Kincade, with as producer. Grace explained that the song was written during a rough period of her life in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that one “could take it as a breakup song, but it could also be about a friend or a family member or any kind of relationship that’s ended”. wrote that the song “has some surprising twists and turns and spells out the beginnings of an exciting new career for Mckenna Grace”. While not originally written for , the song was eventually added to the film’s soundtrack and used for the closing credits after director had heard the song.
