Maggie Grace and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Maggie Grace (born Margaret Grace Denig 21st September, 1983). 21 1982) is a well-known American actress. Particularly, she played Shannon Rutherford from ABC's Lost TV series and Kim Mills for the Taken Trilogy. Originally from Worthington Ohio, she left high school to move into Los Angeles with her mother after her parents divorce. However, in 2001, despite finances she managed get her first significant performance in the video online series Rachel's Room playing the lead character. Her performance of Martha Moxley, a 15-year-old victim of murder in the T.V. film Murder in Greenwich in 2002, earned her an award nomination for the Young Artist Award. Grace Rutherford played Shannon Rutherford for Lost's first two seasons of 2004 as well as sharing with her a Screen Actors Guild Award (with all the other actors) alongside her. After leaving the show, Grace was keen to work more prominently in film having been cast as the opposite of Tom Welling in The Fog in 2005. She appeared as Kim Mills opposite Liam Neeson (both in Taken in 2008) as Suburban Girl as well as the Jane Austen Book Club. The role was reprised in Taken 2 (2013) and Taken 3 (2015). The actress also appeared in Alice in Malice in Wonderland which is a modern adaptation that Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Grace returned to the Lost series for the last two episodes playing Shannon. The year 2013 saw Grace appear in Californianation, the sixth season. She is Faith, a groupie who is a muse for the stars, and draws the eye of Hank Moody (David Duchovny). Maggie Gyllenhaal.........................Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal ( born November 16 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. As a member of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of film makers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs as well as the elder sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. In her teens, she began to work in small roles for her father and appeared in Donnie Darko alongside her sister. Then she appeared on the screen in Adaptation Confessions of a Dangerous Mind as well as Mona Lisa Smile (both 2002). Gyllenhaal won critical praise for her performance as a lead character actress in Secretary (2002), which is an erotic romantic drama and Sherrybaby (2006). She was also nominated for her fellow actors for the Golden Globe Award. Her fame grew for her role as Rachel Dawes, a superhero in The Dark Knight (2008), thanks to several successful commercial films that she was a part of in 2006. The year 2009 was the time she was recognized for the award of Best Supporting Actress at the Oscar Awards for her performance of a single mom in Crazy Heart. The subsequent roles she has played include Nanny McPhee as well as The Big Bang and Hysteria. Apart from her character as a Secret Service agent, she also appeared as a character in White House Down (2013) as well as Frank (2014). Her most recent roles were as the main character The Kindergarten Teacher The Kindergarten Teacher (2018). Gyllenhaal wrote and directed her first feature film, The Lost Daughter in 2021. The thriller that dealt with psychological issues was awarded the Best Screenplay Award from the Venice International Film Festival. It was also nominated to The Academy Award of Best Adapted Screenplay.