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Margaret Grace Denig born September 21, 1983 is an American actress. She is known for playing Shannon Rutherford in the ABC television series Lost (2004–2006; 2010), Kim Mills in the Taken trilogy (2008–2014), Irina in The Twilight Saga (2011–2012), and Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki in Fear the Walking Dead (2018–2021).
Grace received a Young Artist Award nomination for her role as 15-year-old murder victim Martha Moxley in the 2002 television film Murder in Greenwich. In 2004, she was cast as Shannon Rutherford in the television series Lost, of which she was a main cast member in the first two seasons, and won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance with the ensemble cast. After leaving the series, Grace aspired to work more prominently in films. She appeared as Kim Mills in The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) and opposite Liam Neeson in Taken in 2008. She reprised the role of Kim in Taken 2 (2012) and Taken 3 (2014).
She played the lead role, Alice, in Malice in Wonderland, based on Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Grace reprised the role of Shannon in two more episodes of Lost, including the series finale. In 2013, she appeared in the sixth season of Californication. She played Faith, a groupie and inspiration of the stars who attracts the attention of Hank Moody, played by David Duchovny. She joined the cast of the Fear the Walking Dead series in 2018 as a journalist named Althea.
Margaret Grace Denig was born in Worthington, Ohio, to Valene and Fred Denig, who ran a family jewelry business. She 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. As a child, Grace was an avid reader and a self-described "Shakespeare nerd", telling the Los Angeles Times that at age 13, she was "really obsessed with Jane Austen, kind of like some kids are obsessed with Star Trek".
While working on Lost, Grace and Ian Somerhalder adopted a feral cat named Roo, which they found "literally dying" in the woods on set. She said the cat is now her "traveling companion".In February 2017, Grace became engaged to Brent Bushnell, the CEO of an entertainment company.They were married on May 28, 2017. The couple's first child, a son, was born in 2020.
Grace often credits her mother as her source of inspiration. When asked about her closest friend, she said she and her mother are like sisters and that she is "lucky to have an exceptionally cool mother." She is a self-proclaimed Anglophile, having written letters to a pen pal in the Lake District since the age of eight, and is a fan of several English poets, including William Shakespeare; She first visited England at the age of thirteen. She describes herself as very clumsy, claiming to "stumble over her feet all the time," and was jokingly nicknamed "Maggie Graceless" by one of her former castmates.
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