Grace Van Dien

Van Dien was born and raised 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. Her former stepmother is actress Catherine Oxenberg. Van Dien has one older brother, and two half-sisters. On her father's side, Van Dien has Dutch, Swedish, French, and English ancestry. 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 several 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.