Young Mckenna Grace, Brilliant Actress, Singer, Add Genius Too

October 2, 2022,

Brilliant.

Ahead of the pack.

Early bloomer.

Can we just call her a genius?

Mckenna Grace sure seems like one.

Mckenna is an American actress and singer.

Aren’t so many of the young bright minds on the Social Media?

She began acting professionally at the age of six, with her earliest roles including 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).

Starting at the tender age of six?

That is a lot.

In 2018 and 2019, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the top 30 stars under age 18.

She is known for her roles as Mary Adler in the 2017 film Gifted and Phoebe Spengler in the 2021 film Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

Ready for this?

She released her first song in 2021 titled “Haunted House” with the release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Following this release, she began her music career.

In 2020, Ms. Grace signed with Photo Finish Records.

If you’ve watched the video, it is, well, hauntingly good.

When asked, 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.

Right.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure that one out.

See what we mean. An extremely bright mind.

What, in part, makes all of this so amazing? Mckenna is only 16.

What were you doing at sixteen?

Please don’t ask us.

Let’s focus on her acting.

In 2013, our young luminary made her acting debut, playing Sydney in the television pilot Joe, Joe & Jane.

She learned ice skating to portray the younger version of Tonya Harding in the biopic I, Tonya, describing it as the “most challenging role” she’d ever undertaken.

Time to play with the big girls.

Mckenna also played the significant role of Juliet in the horror film Amityville: The Awakening along with Bella Thorne.

The films we enjoy her in most, is when she is acting brilliantly, but behaving badly.

The Bad Seed is a 2018 American made-for-television horror drama film directed by Rob Lowe for Lifetime.

Rob Lowe is also executive producer and stars in the film, alongside our star Mckenna.

The horror thriller is based on the 1954 novel by William March, the 1954 play, and the 1956 film.

The 1956 film is a classic. It was so cutting edge for that time period. The thought that a sweet looking little girl could be that evil was previously unheard of.

A sequel to the film titled The Bad Seed Returns, starring Mckenna, was released on September 5, 2022.

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So much fun.

To top it off, Mckenna is a vegetarian and has directed her affection for animals towards work with Farm Sanctuary and PETA, including appearing in a campaign reminding people not to leave their dogs in hot cars.

Very noble cause.

Which brings us to you.

Are you are parent with a young child that you have above average hopes for? Maybe you are a very young person reading this yourself.

Let’s consider the genius angle and how you can blossom quickly in this very competitive world.

This book might be of interest to you.

The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way Paperback – July 29, 2014

By Amanda Ripley

“How do other countries create “smarter” kids? What is it like to be a child in the world’s new education superpowers? The Smartest Kids in the World “gets well beneath the glossy surfaces of these foreign cultures and manages to make our own culture look newly strange….The question is whether the startling perspective provided by this masterly book can also generate the will to make changes” (The New York Times Book Review).

In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they’ve never seen before. They are learning to think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy. Inspired to find answers for our own children, author and Time magazine journalist Amanda Ripley follows three Americans embedded in these countries for one year. Kim, fifteen, raises $10,000 so she can move from Oklahoma to Finland; Eric, eighteen, trades his high-achieving Minnesota suburb for a booming city in South Korea; and Tom, seventeen, leaves a historic Pennsylvania village for Poland.

Through these young informants, Ripley meets battle-scarred reformers, sleep-deprived zombie students, and a teacher who earns $4 million a year. Their stories, along with groundbreaking research into learning in other cultures, reveal a pattern of startling transformation: none of these countries had many “smart” kids a few decades ago. Things had changed. Teaching had become more rigorous; parents had focused on things that mattered; and children had bought into the promise of education.”

Okay, sounds incredible.

Time to see this genius theory from another angle. Think innovation.

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World Paperback – February 10, 2015

By Tony Wagner

Tony Wagner’s groundbreaking bestseller—“a road map for parents who want to sculpt their children into innovative thinkers” (USA TODAY) and a guide for “an employer looking to have a pipeline of creative talent” (Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO).

“Harvard education expert Tony Wagner explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere. Play, passion, and purpose: These are the forces that drive young innovators.

Wagner takes readers into the most forward-thinking schools, colleges, and workplaces in the country, where teachers and employers are developing cultures of innovation based on collaboration, interdisciplinary problem-solving, and intrinsic motivation. The result is a timely, provocative, and inspiring manifesto that offers crucial insight into creating the change makers of tomorrow.”

Change makers.

Innovation.