Grace Van Dien

Grace Van Dien
Birth name	Caroline Dorothy Grace Van Dien
Birth date	October 15, 1996 (age 27)
Nationality	American
Years active	2010-present
Character Information
Season	4
Portrays	Chrissy Cunningham
First Appearance	The Hellfire Club
Latest Appearance	The Hellfire Club

Grace Van Dien is an Dutch-American actress who portrays Chrissy Cunningham in the fourth season of Stranger Things. She is also known for her starring role as Brooke Osmond in another Netflix drama series, Greenhouse Academy. She is the daughter of Casper Van Dien and his first wife Carrie Mitchum.

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 several television films, independent films and had guest starring roles in the television series, Code Black and White Famous.

Grace went on to star in various indie films and projects, such as The Bad Twin and Charlie Says. During that time, she also starred in the Netflix original Greenhouse Academy. Later on, she starred in the NBC original, The Village, which was cancelled after one season.

In 2022, Van Dien guest starred in the fourth season of Stranger Things, portraying Chrissy Cunningham in the season's premiere. That same year, Van Dien began streaming and playing video games over Twitch, reaching over 200,000 followers within three months of starting her channel.

In March 2023, Van Dien stated she would focus on streaming over acting for the time being, after having been sexually propositioned during a movie shoot.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
2010	The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation	Randy’s Daughter
2014	Sleeping Beauty	Princess Aurora
2015	San Andreas Quake	Ali
	Fire Twister	Girlfriend
2016	Leap	Tara Holloway
	Storage Locker 181	Grace
	The Bad Twin	Olivia & Quinn
	Patient Seven	Jessa
	Army Dog	Tara Holloway
2017	Awaken the Shadowmen	Samantha
2018	Charlie Says	Sharon Tate
2020	The Binge	Lena
	Lady Driver	Ellie Lansing
	Riding Faith	Grace
2022	V for Vengeance	Scarlett
	What Comes Around	Anna
2023	Alaska	Dakota

Television

Year	Title	Role
2005	I Married A Princess	Herself
2015	Code Black	Friend One
2016	Max	Ruby
2017-2019	Greenhouse Academy	Brooke Osmond
2017	White Famous	Ryann
2019	The Village	Katie Campbell
	What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage	Tori
	The Rookie	Olivia
2021	Immoral Compass	Tally
2022	Stranger Things	Chrissy Cunningham

Trivia

• Grace is the daughter of Casper Van Dien and his first wife, Carrie Mitchum.
• She has an older brother Cappy and two half-sisters Maya and Celeste (born in 2001 and 2003).
• She has another two half younger sisters (born in 2001 and 2003) by her father's second wife, Catherine Oxenberg.
• She has half older sister named India Oxenberg (born June 7, 1991), who is an actress by her then-stepmother's daughter, and her father's second wife.
• She was the great-granddaughter of Robert Mitchum, best known for his role as Max Cady in Cape Fear.
• Her zodiac sign is a Libra.
• She streams on Twitch (BlueFille).
• In part due to the confusion surrounding Eddie Munson and Chrissy Cunningham's ages, Van Dien was subjected to months of harassment and a smear campaign due to her vocal support for the pairing of Eddie and Chrissy. Joseph Quinn condemned the harassment, stating, "I was talking to her about it. The internet is a very unforgiving place. It's a place where people can show a lot of support, or where people can rally around hatred and misinformation. It's indicative of where we are culturally – just through association she was getting lambasted. It's disgusting. I don't know what to say other than it sucks."