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Mia Sasha McKenna-Bruce[1] (born 3 July 1997) is an English actress. She gained prominence through her role as Tee Taylor in Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012) and The Dumping Ground (2013–2018). She has since appeared in the iPlayer series Get Even (2020) and the Netflix film Persuasion (2022).

Mia McKenna-Bruce
McKenna-Bruce in 2022
Born	Mia Sasha McKenna-Bruce (1997-07-03) 3 July 1997 (age 25) London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2006–present

Early life

McKenna-Bruce was born on 3 July 1997[2] in London and was raised in Chislehurst, Bromley.[3][1][4][5][6] McKenna-Bruce took dance classes at Liz Burville Performing Arts Centre in Bexley and was a student at Belcanto London Academy.[4][1] McKenna-Bruce also attended the Sapphire Dance Academy in Bexleyheath,[7] as well as the Maidstone Grammar School for Girls.[8] McKenna-Bruce has two sisters, Anya and Ellis.[9]

Career

McKenna-Bruce's first role was a ballet girl in the West End production of Billy Elliot.[10][11] Her first TV role was the minor role of Ester in the TV short, Small Dark Places.[12] She then starred in Holby City as Abi Taylor for one episode.[13] McKenna-Bruce then appeared in EastEnders as Penny Branning.[7] She had a two episode guest in January 2008 and then another three episode guest stint in April 2008. McKenna-Bruce next starred in The Bill in 2009 as Keira Curtis for one episode.[14] She then moved on to Doctors for three episodes.[15]

Later in 2009, McKenna-Bruce starred in her first film role, The Fourth Kind, playing Ashley Tyler.[16][17][18] Her next role was as main character Tee Taylor in Tracy Beaker Returns from 2010 to 2012.[19] In 2011, McKenna-Bruce appeared in the TV series Spy for 1 episode[20] and in 5 episodes of The Tracy Beaker Survival Guide. McKenna-Bruce reprised the role of Tee Taylor from 2013 until 2016 (and again as a guest in 2017 and 2018) in the spin-off series The Dumping Ground.[21] McKenna-Bruce played Tee Taylor in a The Dumping Ground spin-off, The Dumping Ground: I'm..., a webisode series.[22] She guest starred in another episode of Holby City as Asia Lucas, as well as guest starring in BBC Three's Josh.[23][24][25] McKenna-Bruce was cast as the lead in a feature film, The Rebels.[26] In 2020, she began portraying the role of Bree Deringer on the iPlayer teen thriller series Get Even.[27] In 2021, she appeared in an episode of Vera,[28] later being cast in the Netflix film Persuasion.[29] In August of that same year, the actress was cast as Mia Karp in the PeacockTV fantasy series Vampire Academy, based on the best-selling book series by Richelle Mead.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2009	The Fourth Kind	Ashley Tyler		[16][17][18]
2017	Milo	Mia	Short film	[28]
2019	Hit It and Quit It	Nikki	Short film	[28]
	Watch What I Do	Nikki	Short film	[30]
2021	Smudged Smile	Zoe	Short film	[31]
	Last Train to Christmas	Linda	Sky Cinema
2022	Persuasion	Mary Elliot	Netflix film	[29]
TBA	Kindling	Lily		[32]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2008	Small Dark Places	Ester	1 episode	[12]
	Holby City	Abi Taylor	Episode: "Physician, Heal Thyself"	[13]
	EastEnders	Penny Branning	5 episodes	[7]
2009	The Bill	Keira Curtis	Episode: "Little Girl Lost: Part 1"	[14]
	Doctors	Pearl Snow	3 episodes	[15]
2010–2012	Tracy Beaker Returns	Tee Taylor	Main role	[19]
2011	Spy	Ashley	Episode: "Codename: Blood"	[20]
	The Tracy Beaker Survival Files	Tee Taylor	5 episodes	[28]
2013–2018	The Dumping Ground		Main role	[21]
2014	The Dumping Ground Survival Files		Main role	[33]
2016	The Dumping Ground: I'm...		Main role	[34]
2017	Holby City	Asia Lucas	Episode: "Growing Pains"	[23][24]
	Josh	Babysitter	Episode: "Bicycles & Babies"	[25]
2019	Piss Off, I Love You	Teen Snogger	1 episode	[28]
	Cleaning Up	Emily	1 episode
	The Rebels	Enica	Main role	[26][35]
	The Witcher	Marilka	Episode: "The End's Beginning"	[28]
2020	Get Even	Bree Deringer	Main role	[36]
2021	Vera	Maya Draper	1 episode	[28]
2022	Vampire Academy	Mia Karp	Main role	[37]

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2011	Tracy Beaker Returns: You Choose	Tee Taylor
2013–2014	The Dumping Ground Game
2015	The Dumping Ground: You're the Boss[38]

References

External links

• Mia McKenna-Bruce at IMDb

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