Why Young Madison From Malignant Looks So Familiar

At just 15 years old, actress Mckenna Grace has amassed a prolific body of work. What she's best known for, though, is portraying the younger versions of leading (adult) characters. From her first film credit in 2013's "R" to her recent turn in "Malignant," she has appeared in quite a number of flashbacks to help bring characters' backstories to life. She has even performed this role in animation: most recently, she voiced a young Daphne Blake alongside Amanda Seyfried in the 2020 reboot "Scoob!," for instance.

If you're a Marvel fan, then you saw Grace play a young Carol Danvers (played in adult form by Brie Larson) in 2019's "Captain Marvel." Perhaps her most notable "younger version" role to date, though, was in 2017, when she starred as a young Tonya Harding alongside Margot Robbie in "I, Tonya." Portraying the infamous ice skater was a challenge for the then-10-year-old. "Physically, it was the most challenging role I've ever done before because I had to learn to ice skate, and I've never done ice skating before," she told The Boston Globe. "I'd fall and I was all beaten up but I had to get up and keep trying."

On TV, Grace has portrayed younger versions of characters on "The Goodwin Games," "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "The Vampire Diaries," and "Once Upon a Time." She's appeared on two Netflix originals as well: "The Haunting of Hill House" as young Theodora Crain, and "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" as young Sabrina Spellman.