Mckenna Grace (born June 25, 2006) is an American actress. She began her career at the age of five, making her onscreen debut in the sitcom Crash & Bernstein (2012–2014). In 2017, she starred as a child prodigy in the drama film Gifted, a breakthrough for which she received a nomination for a Critics' Choice Movie Awards. 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 an abused teenager in The Handmaid's Tale (2021–2022), Grace was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She garnered further recognition for her appearances in the supernatural comedy films Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), and portrayed Jan Broberg in the miniseries A Friend of the Family (2022).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1910:

The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act

1944:

World War II: U.S. Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Cherbourg

1950:

The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82 condemning the North Korean invasion of South Korea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_82

2009:

Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Michael_Jackson

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

plain sailing: 1. (nautical) 2. The navigation of waters free from hazards or unfavourable winds. 3. Obsolete spelling of plane sailing (“a technique for navigation using the assumption that the journey occurs over a plane or flat surface rather than the actual curved surface of the Earth, which is sufficiently accurate over short distances”). 4. (figurative) Something that is easy, simple, or straightforward; something that offers no difficulties or trouble. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plain_sailing

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually in the past.   --George Orwell https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell