State of Grace
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State of Grace is an American sitcom that ran for two seasons on the Fox Network's Fox Family channel during 2001 and 2002.
It is centered on two 12-year-old girls from very different backgrounds, Hannah and Grace, who were best friends. Hannah was from a working class Jewish family and lived with her parents, her grandmother, and her uncle. Her family had recently moved to North Carolina from Chicago. Grace was from a wealthy family and lived with her mother, an actress.
Set in 1965, the show was compared by some to another look-back-through-the-years show, The Wonder Years.
The two main actors, Alia Shawkat and Mae Whitman, went on to co-star on FOX's Arrested Development. Shawkat is a regular star and Whitman is now a regular guest star. The two play rivals for the love of George Michael Bluth (Michael Cera).
Cast
- Alia Shawkat: (12 year old Jewish-American girl Hannah Rayburn)
- Mae Whitman: (12 year old Emma 'Grace' McKee. Hannah is her best friend)
- Dinah Manoff: (Evelyn Rayburn, Hannah's mother)
- Michael Mantell: (David Rayburn, Hannah's father)
- Faye Grant: (Tattie McKee, Grace's mother)
- Jason Blicker: (Uncle Heschie, Hannah's uncle)
- Erica Yohn: (Grandma Ida, Hannah's grandmother)
- Frances McDormand: (Narrator, voice of Adult Hannah)
- Guest Stars:
- Bryan Neal: (Walker Adams, Grace's older half brother)
- Bonnie Bailey-Reed (Shirley, Rayburns' receptionist at work)
- Carl M. Craig (Greer, the McKees' chauffer)
- Patricia Forte (Cookie, the McKees' maid)
- Tom Verica (Tommy Austin, Tatties' fiancee)
- Adrian Neil (Nigel Grenville III, Tatties' friend)