Draft:Grace Ashcroft
Video game character
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Grace Ashcroft[a] is a character in Resident Evil (Biohazard in Japan), a survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. Grace made her first and only appearance in the 2026 video game Resident Evil Requiem as a playable character alongside Leon S. Kennedy. She is depicted as a technical analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the daughter of investigative reporter and Raccoon City survivor Alyssa Ashcroft.
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Japanese Shihori Kanjiya
Erin Jackson (stunts)
Anna Thornley (stunts)
| Grace Ashcroft | |
|---|---|
| First game | Resident Evil Requiem (2026) |
| Created by | Capcom |
| Voiced by | English Angela Sant'Albano Japanese Shihori Kanjiya |
| Motion capture | Angela Sant'Albano Erin Jackson (stunts) Anna Thornley (stunts) |
| In-universe information | |
| Family | Alyssa Ashcroft (adoptive mother) Oswell E. Spencer (adoptive father) |
| Children | Emily (adopted) |
Concept and design
Grace was voiced by an American actress Angela Sant’Albano.[1] According to director Koshi Nakanishi, the dual-protagonist structure of Resident Evil Requiem, in which players alternate between Leon S. Kennedy and Grace, was conceived to ensure the game would include slow-paced, horror-focused sections alongside faster-paced action sequences; this allowed the developers to show the differences in experience between Leon and Grace.[2] According to Nakanishi, Leon's sequences could give players a sense of release following Grace's chapters.[2] Nakanishi stated that when Grace and his gameplay, they wanted Requiem to highlight on how she have been influenced by his experience in dealing with horrific creatures.[3]
Appearances
Resident Evil Requiem
Resident Evil Requiem begins with Grace Ashcroft working as a young technical analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She is sent by her superior to investigate a mysterious rash of infections and deaths in Wrenwood, a city nearby to the remnants of Raccoon City. Grace investigates the latest death at the Wrenwood Hotel, where she is captured by Victor Gideon. Victor takes her to the Rhodes Hill Cronic Care Center, where he has overseen human experimentation and the creation of bioweapons. After freeing herself from her restraints, Grace discovers the care center overrun with bioweapons. She encounters Leon S. Kennedy, who is also investigating the mysterious infections as well as Victor Gideon, as well as Emily a young girl who was experimented on and is a clone. As she and Leon escape the care center, Emily is wounded and transforms into a bioweapon. Distraught, Grace willingly travels with Victor Gideon as well as the mysterious Zeno to the ruins of Raccoon City and the Umbrella Corporation's compound, the Ark.
While there, it is revealed that Grace is the adopted daughter of Oswell E. Spencer, co-founder of the Umbrella Corporation. Later in his life, Oswell had regrets about the human experimentations he had ordered and took in Grace, who was orphaned as an infant, as atonement. Following his death, he gave guardianship of Grace to investigative reporter Alyssa Ashcroft. Victor Gideon mistakenly believed that Oswell had used Grace in his cloning experiments at the Raccoon City Orphanage and that Grace was the key to unlocking a bioweapon capable of mind control called Elpis. Pursuing Grace when she is a teenager, he tracks her and Alyssa to the Wrenwood Hotel, where he kills Alyssa while failing to capture Grace. Back in the Ark, Grace decides to release Elpis, realizing it is not a bioweapon but rather an antiviral to Umbrella's decades-long experiments. As the Ark disintegrates, Victor and Zeno are killed and Grace and Leon are saved by Chris Redfield's team. Elpis is used on Emily, restoring her to a normal human, who Grace subsequently adopts as her daughter.
Other appearances
Grace appears in the video game Fortnite.
Critical reception
Grace's appearance in Resident Evil Requiem received positive reviews from critics who lauded her characterization and relatability. She was noted as an effective foil to the older veteran Leon S. Kennedy. The voice and motion capture performance from Angela Sant'Albano received unanimous acclaim.