Grace Van Dien

Grace Van Dien (born October 15, 1996 ) is an American actress and social media personality. She is known for playing Brooke Osmond in the Netflix teen drama series Greenhouse Academy (2017) and Katie Campbell in NBC drama series  The Village (2019). She also portrayed Sharon Tate in the Mary Harron-directed film Charlie Says (2018) and Chrissy Cunningham in Stranger Things (2022).

Early life
Grace Van Dien was born on October 15, 1996, in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of actors Casper Van Dien and Carrie Mitchum, and the great-granddaughter of Hollywood Golden Age star Robert Mitchum. Van Dien has one older brother, and two half-sisters. On her father's side, Van Dien has Dutch, Swedish, French, and English ancestry.

Career
In 2005, Van Dien appeared with her family in the reality series, I Married a Princess, which aired on the Lifetime Television channel in the United States. Van Dien played several small roles in her father's films throughout her childhood. Prior to formally beginning her acting career, Van Dien intended to become a writer, before discovering a passion for acting while filming Sleeping Beauty (2014). Between 2015 and 2017, she appeared in numerous television films, independent films and had guest starring roles in the television series Code Black and White Famous.

Van Dien's first major television role was as Brooke Osmond in the Netflix teen drama series Greenhouse Academy, a role she played in the series' first two seasons (2017–2019). In 2018, she starred as Sharon Tate in the biographical film Charlie Says, which had its world premiere at the 75th Venice International Film Festival. In 2019, Van Dien was cast in the starring role of Katie Campbell in the NBC drama series  The Village, which was cancelled after one season.

In May 2022, Van Dien guest starred in the fourth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things, playing Chrissy Cunningham, a popular but troubled cheerleader at Hawkins High School, a performance that earned her international attention and love by fans of the show.

In September 2023, she signed with WME.

Personal life
Van Dien is bisexual.

Other projects

 * "Cool People in LA" (2019) music video by Bret James, directed by Bianca Poletti
 * "Monsters And Muses"(2020) short film where she plays Persephone, directed by herself
 * "Julius Caesar Live" (2022) live performance by Acting for a Cause where she played Calphurnia, directed and produced by Brando Crawford
 * "BlackBoxTV Presents: Scream Park" (2022) video game, where she plays Kelly Q, written and directed by Tony E. Valenzuela
 * "QTC's Murder Mystery" (2023) live show where she played the Cheshire Cat, produced by QTCinderella