Grace Byers (née Gealey) was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, and raised in the Cayman Islands from infancy. After moving to the United States, she received her bachelor's degree in Theater Arts at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Gealey later attended the University of California, Irvine, where she received her Master's of Fine Arts in acting. Gealey then moved to New York City where she performed Off-Broadway, including in Venus Flytrap: A Femme Noir Mystery, and Rent. In 2013, she performed in the Chicago productions of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe. Grace became engaged to her Empire costar Trai Byers in 2015; they married on Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands on April 14, 2016.
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Sherri (2022)
Guest starring as Grace Byers
- Episode 1x91: Meagan Good, Grace Byers, Shoniqua Shandai, Jerrie Johnson, Phyllis Yvonne Stickney (Feb 23, 2023)
Harlem (2021)
Starring as Quinn Joseph
(18 episodes)
- Episode 2x08: Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy (Feb 24, 2023)
- Episode 2x07: Fall Back to Rumspringa Forward (Feb 24, 2023)
- Episode 2x06: Out of the Deadpan and Into the Fire (Feb 17, 2023)
- Episode 2x05: Pride (Feb 17, 2023)
- Episode 2x04: Baby and the Bath Water (Feb 10, 2023)
- Episode 2x03: An Assist from the Sidelines (Feb 10, 2023)
- Episode 2x02: If You Can't Say Anything Nice… (Feb 3, 2023)
- Episode 2x01: Takesie Backsies (Feb 3, 2023)
- Episode 1x10: Once Upon a Time in Harlem (Dec 3, 2021)
- Episode 1x09: Secrets (Dec 3, 2021)
- Episode 1x08: Five Years Ago (Dec 3, 2021)
- Episode 1x07: The Strong Black Woman (Dec 3, 2021)
- Episode 1x06: Cuffing Season (Dec 3, 2021)
- Episode 1x05: Boundaries (Dec 3, 2021)
- Episode 1x04: Winter Solstice (Dec 3, 2021)
- Episode 1x03: Rainbow Sprinkles (Dec 3, 2021)
- Episode 1x02: Saturn Returns (Dec 3, 2021)
- Episode 1x01: Pilot (Dec 3, 2021)
Bookmarks (2020)
Guest starring as Grace Byers
- Episode 1x02: Grace Byers Reads I Am Enough (Sep 1, 2020)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
Guest starring as Grace Byers
- Episode 1x122: Joel McHale, Grace Byers, Duff Goldman (Mar 23, 2020)
The Gifted (2017)
Starring as Reeva Payge
(10 episodes)
- Episode 2x16: oMens (Feb 26, 2019)
- Episode 2x15: Monsters (Feb 19, 2019)
- Episode 2x14: calaMity (Feb 12, 2019)
- Episode 2x11: meMento (Jan 8, 2019)
- Episode 2x09: gaMe changer (Dec 4, 2018)
- Episode 2x07: no Mercy (Nov 13, 2018)
- Episode 2x06: iMprint (Nov 6, 2018)
- Episode 2x03: coMplications (Oct 9, 2018)
- Episode 2x02: unMoored (Oct 2, 2018)
- Episode 2x01: eMergence (Sep 25, 2018)
Empire (2015)
Starring as Anika Calhoun
(64 episodes)
- Episode 4x18: The Empire Unpossess'd (May 23, 2018)
- Episode 4x17: Bloody Noses and Crack'd Crowns (May 16, 2018)
- Episode 4x16: Fair Terms (May 9, 2018)
- Episode 4x15: A Lean and Hungry Look (May 2, 2018)
- Episode 4x14: False Face (Apr 25, 2018)
- Episode 4x12: Sweet Sorrow (Apr 11, 2018)
- Episode 4x11: Without Apology (Apr 4, 2018)
- Episode 4x09: Slave to Memory (Dec 13, 2017)
- Episode 4x08: Cupid Painted Blind (Dec 6, 2017)
- Episode 4x07: The Lady Doth Protest (Nov 29, 2017)
- Episode 4x06: Fortune Be Not Crost (Nov 15, 2017)
- Episode 4x05: The Fool (Nov 8, 2017)
- Episode 4x04: Bleeding War (Oct 18, 2017)
- Episode 4x03: Evil Manners (Oct 11, 2017)
- Episode 4x02: Full Circle (Oct 4, 2017)
- Episode 4x01: Noble Memory (Sep 27, 2017)
- Episode 3x18: Toil and Trouble, Part 2 (May 24, 2017)
- Episode 3x17: Toil and Trouble, Part 1 (May 17, 2017)
- Episode 3x16: Absent Child (May 10, 2017)
- Episode 3x15: Civil Hands Unclean (May 3, 2017)
- Episode 3x14: Love is a Smoke (Apr 26, 2017)
- Episode 3x13: My Naked Villainy (Apr 12, 2017)
- Episode 3x12: Strange Bedfellows (Apr 5, 2017)
- Episode 3x11: Play On (Mar 29, 2017)
- Episode 3x10: Sound & Fury (Mar 22, 2017)
- Episode 3x09: A Furnace for Your Foe (Dec 14, 2016)
- Episode 3x08: The Unkindest Cut (Dec 7, 2016)
- Episode 3x07: What We May Be (Nov 30, 2016)
- Episode 3x06: Chimes at Midnight (Nov 16, 2016)
- Episode 3x05: One Before Another (Nov 9, 2016)
- Episode 3x04: Cupid Kills (Oct 12, 2016)
- Episode 3x03: What Remains is Bestial (Oct 5, 2016)
- Episode 3x02: Sin That Amends (Sep 28, 2016)
- Episode 3x01: Light in Darkness (Sep 21, 2016)
- Episode 2x18: Past is Prologue (May 18, 2016)
- Episode 2x17: Rise by Sin (May 11, 2016)
- Episode 2x16: The Lyon Who Cried Wolf (May 4, 2016)
- Episode 2x15: More Than Kin (Apr 27, 2016)
- Episode 2x14: Time Shall Unfold (Apr 20, 2016)
- Episode 2x13: The Tameness of a Wolf (Apr 13, 2016)
- Episode 2x12: A Rose by Any Other Name (Apr 6, 2016)
- Episode 2x11: Death Will Have His Day (Mar 30, 2016)
- Episode 2x10: Et tu, Brute? (Dec 2, 2015)
- Episode 2x09: Sinned Against (Nov 25, 2015)
- Episode 2x08: My Bad Parts (Nov 18, 2015)
- Episode 2x07: True Love Never (Nov 11, 2015)
- Episode 2x06: A High Hope for a Low Heaven (Nov 4, 2015)
- Episode 2x05: Be True (Oct 21, 2015)
- Episode 2x04: Poor Yorick (Oct 14, 2015)
- Episode 2x03: Fires of Heaven (Oct 7, 2015)
- Episode 2x02: Without a Country (Sep 30, 2015)
- Episode 2x01: The Devils Are Here (Sep 23, 2015)
- Episode 1x12: Who I Am (Mar 18, 2015)
- Episode 1x11: Die But Once (Mar 18, 2015)
- Episode 1x10: Sins of the Father (Mar 11, 2015)
- Episode 1x09: Unto the Breach (Mar 4, 2015)
- Episode 1x08: The Lyon's Roar (Feb 25, 2015)
- Episode 1x07: Our Dancing Days (Feb 18, 2015)
- Episode 1x06: Out, Damned Spot (Feb 11, 2015)
- Episode 1x05: Dangerous Bonds (Feb 4, 2015)
- Episode 1x04: False Imposition (Jan 28, 2015)
- Episode 1x03: The Devil Quotes Scripture (Jan 21, 2015)
- Episode 1x02: The Outspoken King (Jan 14, 2015)
- Episode 1x01: Pilot (Jan 7, 2015)
MasterChef (2010)
Guest starring as Grace Gealey
- Episode S07 Special: MasterChef Celebrity Showdown 2017 (Jan 2, 2017)
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1998)
Guest starring as Grace Byers
(2 episodes)
- Episode 21x15: Grace Byers 2 (Nov 1, 2024) [Special Guest Star]
- Episode 13x15: Grace Byers (Sep 28, 2017) [Special Guest Star]