Maggie Grace is an American actor who was born Margaret Grace Denig in 1983. Her best-known roles include Shannon Rutherford, a character from ABC's Lost series as well as Kim Mills from the Taken trilogy. After her parents' divorce the actress left Worthington in Ohio and moved with her family in Los Angeles. In the midst of financial hardship, she got her first acting gig as Rachel's Room's main character the web-based video show Rachel's Room in 2001. Her performance as Martha Moxley, a 15-year-old victim of murder in the TV film Murder in Greenwich in 2002 earned her nominations for a Young Artist Award. Grace played Shannon Rutherford on the Lost TV show in 2004. She played the lead protagonist for two seasons and also won an award for her performance, a Screen Actors Guild Award. Grace was a co-star with Tom Welling on The Fog in 2005, wanted to move to film. In 2007, she starred as a character in Suburban Girl The Jane Austen Book Club and also, as the Liam Neeson character Kim Mills as Kim Mills for Taken. Taken 2 (2012), Taken 3 2014 and Taken 4 (2014) were her reprises of these characters. Grace played the role of Shannon in Lost and the final episode. In 2013, Grace appears in Californianation, the 6th Season. The role she plays is Faith as a girl who acts as a muse to the stars and catches the eye of Hank Moody (David Duchovny). Maggie Gyllenhaal.........................Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal ( born November 16 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. Being part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter and elder sister to actor Jake Gyllenhaal. When she was a teenager, she began to work on small roles with her father and appeared in Donnie Darko with her brother. The next film she appeared in was Adaptation Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in 2002, and Mona Lisa Smile (2003). The leading roles of Gyllenhaal in Secretary, an erotico-romantic comedy, as well as Sherrybaby (a drama) earned her nominations for Golden Globe Awards. After a string of commercially successful films, such as World Trade Center in 2006 her name was recognized more widely in the role of Rachel Dawes (the superhero) in The Dark Knight (2007). Nominated in the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress due to her part on the film Crazy Heart, (2009). After that she was able to play in comedies as well as dramas such Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang (2010) Hysteria (2011) as well as The Won't Back Down (12). In addition, she played a Secret Service Agent in White House Down the action-packed thriller released in 2013, she was a musician in Frank (2014) as well as The lead on The Kindergarten Teacher, a drama that was released in the year of 2018. In 2021 Gyllenhaal made her writing and directing debut with the psychological thriller The Lost Daughter for which she received an award at the Venice International Film Festival's Best Screenplay Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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