Here’s How Old the Actor Who Plays Natalia Grace in Good American Family Is Compared to the Real Person
Hulu’s newest drama is helmed by a real-life story about a woman whose adoptive parents were the ultimate skeptics. Natalia Grace has proven her real age over Investigation Discovery’s documentary, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, but what is the real of the actress who plays her?
Good American Family is based on the life of Natalia Grace, Kristine, and Michael Barnett. In 2010, the former couple adopted Natalia from Ukraine. The Barnetts believed that Natalia had a rare form of dwarfism, which they believed to be a child-like appearance but with an adult mind.
The couple was convinced that Natalia was actually an adult with psychiatric issues who deceived them about her age, they petitioned to have her age legally changed to 22, based on a bone density test. In 2012 and a year later, the Barnetts moved to Canada, leaving Natalia behind to fend for herself when she was only 9 years old.
Related: Where’s Natalia Grace Now? Finding Life With A New Family After The Barnetts
Like Natalia Grace, Imogen Faith has a form of dwarfism that makes her height 4’3. Here are the age differences between the actress who plays Natalia and the real Natalia Grace.
What is Imogen Faith Reid’s real age?
Imogen Faith Reid is 27-years-old. She was born in May 1997 and celebrated her birthday in an Instagram post in 2024. “I just turned 27 which is getting a lil serious now I’m not liking this aging thing anymore🤣😭 But I can’t tell you how grateful I am to have spent it with the best people,” she wrote.
Reid had to play Natalia Grace during different phases of her life when she was adopted and when she finally finds another family in her 20s. Co-showrunner Sarah Sutherland lauded Reid’s acting in an interview with Variety, “I mean, she not only has to play over a wide range of years, she also plays Natalia from two different ages and different people’s perspectives. Imogen blew everybody away. As soon as everybody saw her tape, it was clear she was the one.”
What is Natalia Grace’s real age?
Natalia Grace’s real age is around 23-years-old. “I was six years old when they adopted me. But the Barnetts did a petition to change my age to 22 years old. I literally lost my childhood,” Natalia said in The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks. “The Barnetts tried to paint me as this big monster, they claimed I’m lying about my age.”
The documentary returned to the dentist’s office where she underwent an x-ray while she was living with the family. Looking back at the X-rays taken at the time, it showed adult teeth growing in the gums underneath Natalia’s baby teeth—something that obviously wouldn’t be happening to someone in their 20s. “You can’t fake teeth coming in like this,” the dentist explains, noting she would’ve been 8 or 9 years old when the x-ray was taken in 2011. This evidence was backed up by a blood sample.
