Grace Byers starred as Anika Calhoun in the Fox music-industry drama series, Empire from 2015 to 2018.
12 Facts About Grace Byers
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In 2022, Byers played a leading role in the comedy horror film, The Blackening.
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Grace Byers was born in Butler, Pennsylvania to Caymanian parents and raised in the Cayman Islands from about age 2.
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Grace Byers's parents are deaf, so she communicates with them using sign language.
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Grace Byers later attended the University of California, Irvine, where she received her Master's of Fine Arts in acting.
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Grace Byers then moved to New York City, where she performed Off-Broadway, including in Venus Flytrap: A Femme Noir Mystery, and Rent.
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Grace Byers left the series after four seasons in 2018.
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In 2017, Grace Byers was cast as Kate, a jazz singer and lounge owner, in the indie thriller Bent, making her big screen debut.
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In 2018, Grace Byers published a children's book titled I Am Enough, based on her experiences being bullied as a child for having deaf parents.
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Grace Byers wrote it to empower children to love and accept themselves.
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From 2018 to 2019, Grace Byers starred as Reeva Payge in the Fox superhero series The Gifted.
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Grace Byers became engaged to her Empire costar Trai Grace Byers in 2015.