1. Margaret Grace Denig was born on September 21,1983 and is an American actress.
24 Facts About Maggie Grace
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Maggie Grace is known for playing Shannon Rutherford on the ABC television series Lost, Kim Mills in the Taken trilogy, Irina in The Twilight Saga, and Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki in Fear the Walking Dead.
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Maggie Grace earned a Young Artist Award nomination in 2002 with her portrayal of 15-year-old murder victim Martha Moxley in the television movie Murder in Greenwich.
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Maggie Grace appeared in The Jane Austen Book Club, and opposite Liam Neeson as Kim Mills in Taken in 2008.
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Maggie Grace reprised the role of Kim in Taken 2 and Taken 3.
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Maggie Grace played the lead role, Alice, in Malice in Wonderland, a modern take on Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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Maggie Grace reprised the role of Shannon in two more episodes of Lost, including the series finale.
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Margaret Maggie Grace Denig was born in Worthington, Ohio, to Valinn and Fred Denig, who ran a family jewelry business.
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Maggie Grace attended Worthington Christian Schools from kindergarten through ninth grade and briefly attended Thomas Worthington High School, where she began acting in school plays and community theater, including a 2000 Gallery Players production of The Crucible, at a local Jewish Community Center.
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Maggie Grace acquired an agent within a week of relocating to Los Angeles and enrolled in acting classes.
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Maggie Grace landed her first role in Rachel's Room, a 2001 web-based video series about the affairs inside a teenage girl's bedroom that was created by Dawson's Creek executive producer Paul Stupin.
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In mid-2004, Maggie Grace's agent sent her the script for the pilot episode of Lost; she was given the role of Shannon Rutherford after a successful audition.
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Maggie Grace lived in Hawaii during the filming of the show's first season, and signed on to star opposite Tom Welling in The Fog, a 2005 remake of the 1980 horror film of the same name, as a character originally played by Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Maggie Grace's character was killed in the season's eighth episode, "Collision", when the series' writers began to feel that the character's "story avenues [were] limited".
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Variety reported in May 2005 that Maggie Grace was in negotiations to play X-Men character Kitty Pryde in the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand, but in July, auditions were reportedly being held for her replacement.
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The role ultimately went to Elliot Page, and Maggie Grace later revealed that she had never been contacted about the role and was surprised to read that she was up for the part in question.
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Maggie Grace is a fan of Jane Austen and had read Fowler's novel when it was released in 2004.
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Maggie Grace starred in the 2008 thriller film Taken with Liam Neeson, who was at the top of a list of male actors Grace wished to work with that she had written just two months before she was cast.
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Maggie Grace played the lead in Simon Fellows' 2009 Malice in Wonderland, a modern adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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In 2010, Maggie Grace starred in the drama Flying Lessons, and appeared opposite Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in James Mangold's film Knight and Day, as well as in Faster, with Dwayne Johnson.
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In September 2010, it was revealed that Maggie Grace was chosen to play Irina in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2.
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In December 2012, it was announced Maggie Grace would be making her Broadway debut in Picnic.
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Maggie Grace made her first appearance as a guest star in the Showtime Series Californication in January 2013, in which she plays a groupie and muse to the rock and roll world as well as the personal interest of Hank Moody, starring David Duchovny, with her role of Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki on Fear the Walking Dead coming five years later.
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Maggie Grace has been on the covers of many international fashion magazines, including Saturday Night, Femme Fatales, Vanidades, 7x7 and Organic Spa Magazine; Canada's Glow and Viva; UK's CosmoGirl; Brazil's Caras; France's Tele 7 Jours; Singapore's Solitaire and Russia's Cosmopolitan Beauty.