Caroline Dorothy Grace Van Dien [1] better known as Grace Van Dien is a well known American actress and the daughter of the famous American actor, Casper Van Dien, who played the role of Brooke Osmond during the first and second seasons of Greenhouse Academy.
Biography[]
Born October 15, 1996, Grace Van Dien is a 25 year old actress hailing from Los Angeles, California. She has lived in LA her whole life and has 4 siblings, Cappy, Maya and Celeste Van Dien and India Oxenburg.
Grace's first "acting job" was on her family's reality show, "I Married a Princess" at only 9 years old. After the project ended, she wasn't very content on acting at first until her father persuaded her to act in one of his movies, "Sleeping Beauty", making it her first real acting role.[2] She started her acting career in 2014 and started directing not long after as well.
After "Sleeping Beauty", Grace went on to star in "The Bad Twin" and even many notable films such as "Charlie Says" in 2018. During this time she also starred as Brooke Osmond on the Netflix original, "Greenhouse Academy". When Season 3 of GHA was revealed, Grace had announced that she would not be coming back to play fan favorite character, Brooke Osmond and that instead Danika Yarosh would take over the role. [3] Instead, Grace went on to play Katie Campbell in the NBC original, "The Village". The show however was not renewed for a second season. [4]
As of 2021, it was recently announced that she would guest star on Stranger Things in its 4th season as Chrissy. [5]
Filmography[]
| Year | Title | Type | Role | Role Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-Present | Stranger Things | TV Series | Chrissy | Recurring |
| 2020 | Riding Faith | Movie | Grace | Main |
| 2020 | Lady Driver | Movie | Ellie Lansing | Main |
| 2020 | The Binge | Movie | Lena | Main |
| 2019 | The Village | TV Series | Katie Campbell | Main |
| 2018 | Charlie Says | Movie | Sharon Tate | Main |
| 2017-2018 | Greenhouse Academy | TV Series | Brooke Osmond | Main |
| 2017 | Awaken the Shadowmen | Movie | Samantha | Main |
| 2016 | Army Dog | Movie | Tara Holloway | Main |
| 2016 | Patient Seven | Movie | Jessa | Main |
| 2016 | The Bad Twin | Movie | Olivia & Quinn | Main |
| 2016 | Max | TV/Movie | Ruby | Main |
| 2015 | San Andreas Quake | Movie | Ali | Main |
| 2014 | Sleeping Beauty | Movie | Princess Aurora | Main |
| 2005 | I Married a Princess | Reality Show | Herself | Recurring |
Gallery[]
“What is this, a scientific experiment?” To view the Grace Van Dien gallery, click here.
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Trivia[]
- Reina Hardesty is her best friend.[6]
- She is the great-great-great niece of Mark Twain.[1]
- She is the half sister of Maya and Celeste Van Dien.
- Her grandmother is Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia.[1]
- Her dream is to move to New York.[7]
- Grace enjoys painting and playing with yarn.
- She is never satisfied with her performances and strives to do better on the next.[8]
- She hates social media.
- She wanted to become a writer.[9]
- She enjoys reading.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Grace Van Dien Biography - IMDB
- ↑ GRACE VAN DIEN X THE LATERALS - The Laterals Magazine
- ↑ ‘Greenhouse Academy’ Season 3: Brooke, Emma Actresses Recast And New Characters Added - IBTimes
- ↑ The Village Cancelled at NBC - TV Line
- ↑ ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Cast Additions: Amybeth McNulty, Myles Truitt, Regina Ting Chen & Grace Van Dien - Deadline
- ↑ Grace Van Dien on Instagram: "my tweedle-dee"
- ↑ 1883 Magazine on Grace Van Dien
- ↑ GRACE VAN DIEN X THE LATERALS
- ↑ interview | grace van dien