Maggie Grace: from a hot cult show to this season's clammy cult film

Her hit series Lost may be filmed in Hawaii, but actress Maggie Grace, who plays spoiled rich girl Shannon Rutherford on the show, is far from desert island-bound.

This month, the 22-year-old Columbus, Ohio, native will leap from sunny paradise to shadowy suburbia, starring opposite Tom Welling and Selma Blair in director Rupert Wainwright's update of John Carpenter's The Fog (1980), about a ghost-filled mist infesting a sleepy seaside village. "Carpenter made the original for less than a million dollars and had only two little fog machines, so it's sort of a holy grail for indie filmmakers," says Grace.

Although Lost and The Fog take place in decidedly different milieux, Grace discovered while attending a comic convention that they have one thing in common--rabid fans. "It was overwhelming," she says. "Now I know what it means to be a rock star."

Leslie Cafferty last wrote about Kevin Zegers in the September issue.

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