Grace Dumdaw Played Mike In The Watcher
Emily Cortez
Published Feb 19, 2026
Grace Dummdaw played Mike in ‘The Watcher’, a mystery thriller television series on Netflix.
The Netflix series, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, premiered on 13th October 2022 and featured Hollywood actors Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Mia Farrow and Jennifer Coolidge.
They are next appearing on Netflix’s holiday special movie ‘Christmas With You’, a small town rom-com that follows a pop star searching her sound and a music teacher assisting her on the journey.
Directed by Gabriela Tagliavini, the movie features Aimee Garcia as the popstar Angelina, Freddie Prinze Jr. as the music teacher and Grace as Madison.
Grace Dumdaw is Mike from Netflix’s thriller The Watcher
Grace Dumdaw played Mike in The Watcher, a thriller mini-television series blended with mystery and horror.
Netflix’s new mystery-thriller is a true story vaguely based on the article by Reeves Wiedeman for New York’s The Cut in 2018.
Problems arise when a married couple moving into their dream home begins to receive threatening letters from a serial killer signed as The Watcher on the show.
Grace has appeared on a single episode of the show which has a total of seven episodes. Aside from The Watcher she has appeared on a number of shows such as And Just Like That, Gossip Girl, New Amsterdam and Succession.
Additionally, Grace is also a filmmaker and a photographer. Dumdaw majored in Stage, Screen, & New Media from Swarthmore College with Phillips Evans Scholarship.
She was a Digital Photography Intern at BravoTV in New York.
The Watcher is Trending on Netflix
The Watcher first released on Netflix as a mini-series but it has been renewed for a second season, announced by the streaming platform on 7 November, 2022.
While Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale, the leads in the previous season, are expected to return for their roles as Dean and Nora Brannock, the cast for the new season hasn’t announced yet.
The Watcher remains at the 6th position on Netflix’s top 10 TV series list for last week (October 31- 6 November). It has remained in the top ten list for four weeks in total.
The audience watched the show for a total of 35,420,000 hours last week according to Netflix’s Weekly Top 10 lists of the most-watched TV and films.
The creator duo for the show, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, gave Netflix one of its biggest hits of the year, DAHMER: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, and likely on the way to deliver another one as well with The Watcher.
Fast Facts on Actress Grace Dumdaw
- Grace is a SAG-AFTRA actress signed with CGF talent, CESD Talent, and Entertainment Lab LA/NY.
- Grace identifies with the pronouns she/they.
- Grace was born in the Kachin State of Myanmar and was raised in Louisiana, US. They are a patron for their ethnic group of Kachin people.
- Grace is multilingual with fluent English, Burmese and Jinghpaw.
- They have received 12 and 8 years of classical training on piano and violin respectively.
- Grace is a SAG-AFTRA actress signed with CGF talent, CESD Talent, and Entertainment Lab LA/NY.
- They went to Prague Film School, Stella Adler Studio for training in Acting for Film and Television and interned as a digital photographer at BravoTV.
- Grace was recognized as a fellow by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. They were supposed to work at a top agency in L.A. but it was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
- Grace played Mike in the Netflix mystery thriller series The Watcher.
- They will next appear in a holiday rom-com, Christmas With You, on Netflix.
