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"facebook dialogPinterest\n\nBut for Grace, who inherited her mother's famous profile and trademark candor, the flashy Los Angeles lifestyle of her character, Anna, couldn't be further from her own Connecticut adolescence. \"All the glamour and paparazzi is very foreign to me,\" says the 23-year-old, who studied art history at Vassar. \"I spent my summers eating ice cream, babysitting, and being a lifeguard. The fact that my mom was a movie star never had anything to do with my life.\" And yet Grace insists the characters in the series, which resembles a teen version of Entourage, are relatable. \"It's like revealing the little man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz. In reality, they are human and have issues just like any other kids.\"\u00A0\n\nIt was Grace's postcollege stints as a costume designer and as an intern for Zac Posen that helped jump-start her acting career. \"A friend called to see if I would do costumes for a play, but after reading the script I decided to audition instead,\" she says of her 2008 New York stage debut in The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents. \"Then Gigantic appeared out of nowhere--life threw me a blessing.\"\u00A0\n\nIt's a blessing that seems fitting for a girl who grew up obsessing over dramas like My So-Called Life and Dawson's Creek and Nickelodeon comedies like Clarissa Explains It All and Salute Your Shorts. Now with her own show, Grace is taking on a role she was literally born to play. --ANDREW BEVAN"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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