Maggie Grace Biography

Maggie Grace is an American actress best known for starring as Shannon Rutherford in ABC’s Lost from 2004 to 2006, Kim Mills in the Taken trilogy from 2008 to 2014, Irina in The Twilight Saga from 2011 to 2012, and Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki in Fear the Walking Dead from 2018 to 2021. In 2002, she won a Young Artist Award nomination for her portrayal of Martha Moxley in Murder in Greenwich.

Maggie Grace Education

Grace briefly attended Worthington Christian Schools from kindergarten to ninth grade. Then, she joined Thomas Worthington High School, where she started acting in community theatre and school plays. For instance, she appeared in a 2000 Gallery Players production of The Crucible at a local Jewish Community Center.

Maggie Grace Career

Grace got an agent in the span of a week of moving to Los Angeles. She also joined acting classes. She secured her first role in 2001, appearing in Rachel’s Room. The following year, she appeared in Septuplets, which was later canceled after the first episode was telecast. That same year, she had her breakthrough role starring as Martha Moxley in Murder in Greenwich, winning a Young Artist Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special – Leading Young Actress Award nomination.

Grace attained minor roles in TV series like CSI: Miami, The Lyon’s Den, Miracles, Like Family, Cold Case, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as well as the films, Twelve Mile Road and Creature Unknown. She received the script for the pilot episode of Lost in mid-2004 after securing the role of Shannon Rutherford after a successful audition. The following year, she won a Teen Choice Choice TV Breakout Performance – Female Award for her performance in the film.

Grace lived in Hawaii during the filming of Lost‘s 1st season. She also signed to star opposite Tom Welling in The Fog. She had to fly between the two sets, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu and on Bowen Island in British Columbia due to scheduling conflicts with filming The Fog and Lost‘s extended season finale.

Grace returned to Lost‘s 2nd SN after being ranked #27 on Maxim’s Hot 100 list in 2005. After leaving the series, she went onstage at the 12th Screen Actors Guild Awards alongside the other principal Lost cast members of SN 2. In May 2005, Variety shared that she was negotiating to star as Kitty Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand. However, there were auditions for her replacement in July.

2007 to present;

In 2007, Grace starred in Suburban Girl with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alec Baldwin. That same year, she appeared in The Jane Austen Book Club as Allegra. A Jane Austen fan, she was geeked out when she met the director Robin Swicord after receiving the film’s script. After filming the movie, she temporarily returned to Hawaii where she shot a guest role in the Lost SN 3 episode, Exposé.

In 2008, Grace appeared in Taken opposite Liam Neeson. The following year, she starred in Malice in Wonderland. In 2010, she appeared in Flying Lessons, Knight and Day, and Faster. Despite her busy schedule, she returned to film Lost’s series finale The End. A September 2010 announcement revealed that she would play the role of Irina in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2. In December 2012, she made her Broadway debut on December 14, 2012, in Picnic, at the American Airlines Theatre.

Grace played a guest role in Showtime’s Californication in January 2013, where she portrayed a groupie and muse to the rock and roll world as well as the personal interest of Hank Moody. In 2018, she joined the cast of  Fear the Walking Dead as Althea.

Other Projects

Grace has appeared on the covers of numerous international fashion magazines like Femme Fatales, Vanidades, 7×7, Saturday Night, Organic Spa Magazine, Canada’s Glow and Viva,  UK’s CosmoGirl, Brazil’s Caras, France’s Télé 7 Jours, Singapore’s Solitaire, and Russia’s Cosmopolitan Beauty.

Maggie Grace Age

Grace was born Margaret Grace Denig on September 21, 1983, in Worthington, Ohio, U.S.A. She is 41 years old as of 2024. Grace celebrates her birthday on September 21st.

Maggie Grace Height

Grace stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 9 inches.

Maggie Grace Family

Grace was born to Valinn (née Everett) and Fred Denig in Worthington, Ohio. When she was a child, she was a keen reader and self-deemed Shakespeare nerd. At the age of 13, she loved reading Jane Austen books like some kids are into Star Trek. She grew up alongside her two siblings, Ian and Marissa Denig. She cites her mother as her source of inspiration and calls her her closest friend.

Maggie Grace Husband

Grace married Brent Bushnell on May 28, 2017, in Ojai, California. He proposed to her in February 2017. The pair has a son who was born in 2010 and is 14 years old as of 2024. Brent works as the CEO of an entertainment company. He previously served as the on-camera inventor for ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. He also worked as a founding member of Syyn Labs and helped OK Go to develop the Rube Goldberg machine for their viral This Too Shall Pass music video, gaining 50+ million views on YouTube.

A self-proclaimed Anglophile, she wrote to a pen pal in the Lake District since she was 8 and admires several English poets like William Shakespeare. She first visited England at the age of 13. Due to her clumsiness, one of her former cast mates jokingly nicknamed her Maggie Graceless.

Maggie Grace Net Worth

Grace has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million which she has earned through being an actress.

Maggie Grace Lost

Grace starred Shannon Rutherford in Lost from 2004 to 2006 from SN 1 to 2 and special guest appearances in SN 3 and 6. Shannon is the spoiled and self-centered stepsister of fellow crash survivor, Boone Carlyle(played by Ian Somerhalder). Lost follows the lives of Shannon and other after a plane crashes in the South Pacific. Grace lived in Hawaii during the filming of Lost’s 1st season. In 2005, she won a Teen Choice Choice TV Breakout Performance – Female Award for her performance in the film. During filming, she and Ian Somerhalder adopted a feral cat named Roo after they found it in the jungle on the set.

Maggie Grace Taken

Grace starred as Kimberly “Kim” Mills in the Taken trilogy from 2008 to 2014. Mills is the daughter of Bryan Mills and Lenore ‘Lennie’ Mills-St. John. Brian is an ex-Green Beret and CIA. In the first installation, Kim and her best friend Amanda are kidnapped by Albanian human trafficking terrorists while traveling in France during a vacation. The film follows Brian as he looks for her and takes vengeance on those who hurt his daughter.

The second installment takes place after the events of the first film. After taking back his daughter, the father of one of the men he killed kidnaps Brian and his ex-wife to take vengeance for his son’s death. Kim helps her father navigate the situation in Istanbul as she tries to manage the aftermath of her past kidnapping. Taken 3 follows Brian as he tries to clear his name and find the killer of his ex-wife after he is blamed for her death. In the film, she provides emotional support to Brian as he tries to prove his innocence.

Maggie Grace The Twilight Saga

Grace starred as Irina in The Twilight Saga(The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and Part 2) from 2011 to 2012. Irina, once a human peasant girl, is a vampire and part of the Denali coven. Her lover, Laurent, was killed by the werewolves. She mistakenly thinks that Renesmee(Bella and Edward’s child) is immortal and informs the Volturi, the ruling vampire coven, that the Cullens have broken vampire law by creating an immortal child.

Maggie Grace Fear the Walking Dead

Grace starred as Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki in Fear the Walking Dead from 2018 to 2021. Althea is a former journalist who continues her passion for storytelling even in the post-apocalyptic world. Known for her armored SWAT van and her documentary style, she encounters Morgan and John.

Maggie Grace Movies and TV Shows

Grace has starred in several movies and TV shows during her career such as

• Creature Unknown
• Malice in Wonderland
• The Experiment
• Flying Lessons
• Decoding Annie Parker
• Lockout
• About Alex
• We’ll Never Have Paris
• When Calls the Heart
• Showing Roots
• The Scent of Rain and Lightning
• Susanna
• Supercon
• The Althea Tapes
• Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
• The Secret Art of Human Flight
• Blackwater Lane