Grace Santos(II)

Grace Santos is an actor, executive producer, producer, and attorney. She's part of the Producers Guild of America Power of Diversity fellowship.

Producing credits include teen comedy "Almost Popular" directed by Nayip Ramos and starring Ruby Rose Turner (Disney's "Descendants: The Rise of Red"), and award winning productions featured at Oscar qualifying film festivals such as AFI's DWW "Silk" by Catherine Dent ("The Shield") and starring Oscar Nominee and Emmy Winner Shohreh Aghdashloo, and "Election Night" by Tessa Blake ("NCIS") and starring Peri Gilpin ("Frasier").

Grace has also worked in leadership positions for companies that have produced and distributed hundreds of films and television content. As Vice President and Head of Business Affairs and Operations for Gamechanger Films, Grace worked on "The Inspection" with A24 Films (the movie and its actors have garnered 25 nominations so far, including the Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards, and Gotham Awards) and on "Run Sweetheart Run" with Amazon Studios, Universal, and Blumhouse. Grace worked in various departments at financier/producer led Michael Mendelsohn's Patriot Pictures (and continues to produce with the company, include How the Gringo Stole Christmas starring George Lopez), Vice President of Business Affairs for SP Operations and was one of the year round staff for the Bentonville Film Festival - Vice President of Business Affairs and worked in the programming department. When Grace worked for the now AMC Networks divisions Image Entertainment / RLJ Entertainment, UMC/ALLBLK, and AcornTV, she was mentioned several times in Deadline, the Hollywood Reporter, and Variety for closing multi-million dollar deals such as "The Rewrite" starring Hugh Grant and Marisa Tomei, "Pay The Ghost" starring Nicolas Cage, and "Bone Tomahawk" starring Kurt Russell. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Grace worked as General Counsel for Paragon Capital Partners, an investment company owned by Santosh Govindaraju. Grace's first Hollywood opportunity was interning for the creative development team at Silver Pictures / Dark Castle Entertainment and working as a Teaching Assistant for the UCLA Professional Programs in Producing and Television Writing.

Grace has been an actor since childhood and is a SAG-AFTRA member and Equity member. Grace also won Best Actor from Creative Loafing for her role in Tony Award winner Neil Labute's "Reasons to Be Pretty". For her role in "Odessa", film critic Richard Propes writes "Grace Santos is the focus here as Estrella. Santos avoids histrionics. She trusts this story to be 'enough.' She gets it. She understands it. You can see it in her eyes and her body language and as she speaks Doug Johnson's sparse yet intentional dialogue. There's a 'What if?' around every corner and Santos captures that unknowing, that fear, and that doubt."

Grace has also volunteered for numerous charities and has been awarded public interest awards for her service. She is on the Board of Directors for FilAm Creative, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting Filipino-American stories.

NATPE Global has selected only five series for its prestigious 2025 Pitch Showcase, and Grace Santos is set to executive produce two of them.