Grace Mandeville

Career

Grace Mandeville got her start in acting at age fifteen, mostly landing commercial work. Before that, she had a background role as a Hogwarts student in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In 2010, she was chosen to play Holly on the CBBC series The Sparticle Mystery, which first aired in February 2011. She later appeared alongside her younger sister Amelia in BBC3’s The Fear.

Mandeville has also featured in ads for Huawei and Matalan, and regularly appears in CBBC shorts like Lifebabble and Whoops I Missed the Bus with her sister. In 2016, she was a panelist on CBBC’s The Dog Ate My Homework. That same year, she and her sister started presenting for MTV UK.

Mandeville and Amelia launched their YouTube channel, Mandeville Sisters, in December 2013. It has more than 114,000 subscribers.

They post a weekly vlog called MandevWeekly, plus one extra video each week. Many of their videos focus on disabilities and navigating daily life with one hand. The channel also features collaborations and interviews with celebrities and other YouTubers.

In modeling, Mandeville works with Open Bionics to showcase prosthetics. In 2015, she modeled a Star Wars-themed prosthetic arm for Fashion Finds the Force, created by Open Bionics. She also modeled a prosthetic arm for Sophie de Oliveira Barata’s Alternative Limb Project, which led to a feature in the New York Times. Additionally, she has modeled for Dazed and TenEighty magazines.