Madeline Zima

Madeline Zima is an American actress who was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1985 and began performing as a toddler, first appearing in a Downy fabric softener advertisement. In 1993 she landed the role of Grace Sheffield on the sitcom The Nanny, remaining for its six seasons until 1999. Later she played Mia Lewis on the Showtime comedy drama Californication from 2007 to 2011 and joined Heroes as Gretchen Berg in 2009. Her films include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), A Cinderella Story (2004), and The Collector (2009), and she appeared with Megan Fox in the 2024 science fiction thriller Subservience. She also guest starred on Law & Order, JAG, Touched by an Angel, The Vampire Diaries, and Twin Peaks: The Return, and later appeared in Perry Mason in 2020 and had a recurring role on Doom Patrol in 2022. Zima received three YoungStar Award nominations and thirteen Young Artist Award nominations, many for The Nanny.