Grace Byers

Actor

Birthdate: July 26, 1984 (42 Years Old)

Birthplace: Butler, Pennsylvania

Grace Byers (birthname: Grace Lillis Gealey) is best recognized as Anika on the long-running Fox series, Empire (2015-2018), as Reeva on the Marvel series, The Gifted (2018-2019), and as Quinn on Amazon Prime’s comedy series, Harlem (2021-present), but has broken through on the big screen in a significant way in 2023.

Byers’ feature debut was a supporting role in writer-director Robert Moresco’s crime thriller, Bent (2018), co-starring Karl Urban, Sofia Vergara, Andy Garcia, and Vincent Spano, and released by Lionsgate. It took five more years, but Byers finally nabbed a lead comedy role in the acclaimed hit horror-satire, The Blackening (2023), with Tim Story directing the ensemble led by Byers, including Antoinette Robertson, Sinqua Walls, (co-creator/co-writer) Dwayne Perkins, and Jay Pharoah.

Byers returned to her Cayman Islands roots to film (in a supporting role) the crime comedy, The Retirement Plan (2023), written and directed by Tim Brown, and starring Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Ashley Greene, Jackie Earle Haley, and Ernie Hudson.

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Grace Byers was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, and raised in the Cayman Islands by her father and her mother Cheryl McCoy Gealey. For her university education, Byers returned to the U.S., where she majored and graduated with a theater Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Florida. Byers then attended the University of California, Irvine’s graduate theater program, where she earned a Master’s degree in acting. Byers began her post-graduate professional acting career in New York, and then in Chicago. Byers has been married to actor-writer-producer Trai Byers (whom she met on the set of the series, Empire) since 2016; the couple has one child. Byers’ height is 5’ 5”.

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The Blackening

Allison (2023)

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2023 |
The Blackening
The Blackening
2023
Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Seven friends go away for the weekend and end up trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. Will their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies help them stay alive? Probably not.
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2023 |
The Retirement Plan
The Retirement Plan
2023
Action, Comedy, Crime
When Ashley and her young daughter Sarah get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to estranged father Matt, currently living the life of a retired beach bum in the Cayman Islands.
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Facts About Grace Byers

Parents: Both of Grace Byers’ parents are deaf, and Byers can communicate in sign language. Author: Byers has written a children’s book, titled I Am Enough (published in 2018), which she wrote based on her recollections of being bullied as the child of deaf parents.

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