Margaret Grace Denig was born on 21 September 1983, in Worthington, Ohio USA. She is an actress, best known for being a part of the television series “Lost” and the film series “Taken”. She has also appeared in “Malice in Wonderland”, and “Californication”. All of her efforts have helped put her net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Maggie Grace? As of mid-2016, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $8 million, mostly earned through a successful career as an actress. She’s received numerous nominations and awards throughout the course of her career, and is also known for several appearances in stage productions. As she continues her career, it is expected that her wealth will continue to rise.
Maggie Grace Net Worth $8 Million Dollars
Maggie attended Worthington Christian School and then Thomas Worthington High School, where she started to get acting opportunities, appearing in community theatre plays as well as school plays. One of her first experiences was in a production of “The Crucible”. She then dropped out of high school to move with her mother to Los Angeles after their parents’ divorce.
Grace found an agent a week after relocating, and she started taking acting classes. Her first appearance was in “Rachel’s Room”, a web series created by Paul Stupin. Her popularity would increase after the television movie “Murder in Greenwich”, which brought her a nomination for a Young Artist Award for her role. She would then continue her career with guest appearances and minor roles in various television series such as “Cold Case”, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”, and “CSI: Miami”, which established her net worth.
In 2004, she auditioned for the series “Lost” and was subsequently given the role of Shannon Rutherford, for which during the first season, she would be nominated for a Teen Choice Award, however, in the second season of “Lost”, her character was killed off during the eighth episode due to limitations regarding the character’s story. Meantime, she cast in the film “The Fog”, and being eager to start her film career killing-off her character was not stressful. Grace then appeared in “Suburban Girl” with Alec Baldwin and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and starred in “The Jane Austen Book Club”, then returned to shoot a guest appearance in the third season of “Lost”. Her net worth continued to rise.
In 2008, she would be put into the spotlight again along with Liam Neeson in the film “Taken”, which became highly successful, and she would then appear in “Malice in Wonderland” and “Knight and Day”. She was also cast for the film “Faster” with Dwayne Johnson, before appearing in the final episode of “Lost” entitled “The End”. In 2010, she became part of the film “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1” and “Part 2” as Irina.
Aside from the aforementioned, Maggie made her Broadway debut in a production of “Picnic”. She then became a part of the series “Code Black”, though she would exit the show after a short while. Afterwards, she made a guest appearance in the show “Californication” which stars David Duchovny. Most recently, she has appeared in “The Choice” and “478”.
For her personal life, it is known that Maggie lived in Honolulu, Hawaii during her time with “Lost”, and dated co-star Ian Somerhalder after both of them had left the series. She also dated Blake Mycoskie who was a contestant in the second season of “The Amazing Race”. In 2015, she announced that she was engaged to Matthew Cooke, but reportedlt separated in late 2015. Grace credits her mother as her inspiration and she also calls herself an Anglophile. She loves reading books, admiring writers such as Shakespeare and Jane Austen.
