Leslie Grace has become a quiet force on the film festival circuit.
After breaking out in the Lin-Manuel Miranda movie musical In the Heights, Grace’s next big role, a starring turn as a DC superhero in the Batgirl movie, was among the finished films indefinitely shelved by Warner Bros. and taken as a tax write-off. In the interim years, she has worked on independent films that have had an outsized impact.
Grace starred in the drama In the Summers, which won the grand jury prize in the dramatic competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. And this week, she is at the SXSW film and television festival, with two movies: Jonás Cuarón’s Campeón Gabacho and Ryan Booth’s Stages.
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