

While she didn’t wind up playing the character her mom loved, Baker plays Dawn’s first friend in the group, Mary Anne Spier. “I felt like I hit the jackpot,” says Baker, now 13. It always confused the young actress - until, when she was around 8, she came upon a stash of “The Baby-Sitters Club” books in the garage. Growing up, Malia Baker’s mom would often refer to herself as a Dawn. When I play music, he looks more lively in my room.” Everyone thinks I’m crazy when I say that, but I did an experiment. He will droop if i don’t play classical music. “I love my spider plant, Harold,” says the avid plant enthusiast. She’s already doing her share for the leafed and rooted community. But she tends to think about her acting work in grander terms: “I just want to be able to inspire people and cause any sort of change and good in the world that I can.” Grace says she hopes to star in a comedy with Jennifer Aniston one day.
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She starred in the 2018 Lifetime TV movie “Terror in the Woods” as one of two girls whose obsession with an Internet legend leads to murder.
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“The Baby-Sitters Club” is Grace’s second major professional gig. That’s really hard for kids, and we see how she’s finding her way through that.” “I’m so honored to be a part of a series like this that gives kids someone to relate to,” she says. She hopes young viewers see themselves in the show’s variety of portrayals - whether it’s the diversity of the cast or in characters’ home lives. “We have a very, very similar personality everyone reminds me of that,” she says, though she adds that she likes art and is into fashion, even sometimes sewing her own clothes. That Grace would go on to be cast as Kristy Thomas, the athletic, slightly overbearing founder and president of the babysitter club, isn’t surprising to people who know her, she says with a laugh. “It felt cool reading something that she had read.” “It was something we shared and bonded over,” says Grace, calling from her home in Jacksonville, Fla. The actress, 14, had fallen in love with the book series beginning when she was about 6 - eager to feel the same excitement and connection to the characters that her older sister had experienced. “Meeting her was like floating on a cloud,” is how Sophie Grace described her interaction with “The Baby-Sitters Club” author Martin on the show’s Vancouver set.
