Grace Van Patten

About

Grace Van Patten (born November 21, 1996) is an American actress. She has appeared in two films distributed by Netflix, Tramps (2016) and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), and in the Hulu original series Nine Perfect Strangers (2021), Tell Me Lies (2022), and The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox (2025).

Van Patten grew up in Tribeca, New York City, and attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. She is the eldest of three daughters of director and producer Timothy Van Patten. She is the niece of comic actor Dick Van Patten. Her cousin (born in 1959) is actress Talia Balsam, who is the daughter of Joyce Van Patten.

At the age of eight, Van Patten’s first role was on the crime drama television series The Sopranos, that her father directed. He got her the audition, and she portrayed Ally, the daughter of a gangster Eugene Pontecorvo. She was in a 2014 episode of another series directed by her father, Boardwalk Empire. She deferred admission to the University of Southern California, instead choosing to audition in New York City and take community college classes in psychology and philosophy. She postponed the courses, however, when she got a job during the school year…