Grace Roscoe (also Black and Royle) is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Tamara Wall.

Focusing on the character's personality and style, he and Wall transformed her from a gangster who fought for "bags of money" to a more family oriented woman fighting for "love and loyalty".

She has been pushed from a balcony, held hostage, shot, electrocuted, nearly killed Joe with a wrecking ball and has also been stalked by her secret lover Kim Butterfield (Daisy Wood-Davis).

Producers then introduced Grace's extended family, consisting of three half-brothers, Adam (Jimmy Essex), Liam (Maxim Baldry/Jude Monk McGowan), and Jesse (Luke Jerdy), and their mother, Tracey (Lisa Maxwell).

Her first was on the Hollyoaks set in Liverpool, where she also acted out some scenes alongside regular cast members Jesse Birdsall and Greg Wood, who play Fraser Black and Trevor Royle respectively.

Fierce, ruthless and dangerous – it's easy to see how Grace is the only gangster left standing in the Black family.Grace has been compared to a chameleon in her official character biography.

[3] In 2013, Wall told Daniel Kilkelly from Digital Spy that Grace is "pretty rock hard" and her childhood left her damaged emotionally.

Kirkwood believed it would throw Grace into a non-criminal world and see her behave different, smile more, show a softer side and offer the audience a chance to witness "other facets to her character.

Wall enjoyed the complexities of Grace, adding "the best thing about her is that I still get to be the big evil baddie who's not very nice, but at the same time, I get to be funny and I get to have a love story.

It takes the make-up department two hours daily to wash, dress and curl it and an additional forty minutes to style it onto Wall's head.

[1] Hollyoaks had a long-running theme of having a "dark gangster corner of the show" first created with the character Scott Anderson (Daniel Hyde).

She notices Lindsey Butterfield (Sophie Austin) and Cindy Cunningham (Stephanie Waring) behaving suspiciously and begins to monitor them.

She wants to frame Tegan for the murder but later discovers a bag of clothes in Trevor's flat which leads her to believe he killed Fraser.

Kilkelly (Digital Spy) reported that Hollyoaks had created a dramatic stunt involving a wrecking ball and a demolition of their council housing set.

The show aired surprise scenes in which Fraser takes Grace to a private hospital where Joe is alive, but comatose and being cared for.

Writers included a "deadly turn" in the story, where there fight escalates and Freddie knocks Grace over the balcony and she falls to the ground.

In February 2015, Mercedes reappeared on-screen in surprise scenes and it was revealed she had teamed up with Grace to frame Freddie for her supposed murder.

[39] Grace manages to fool the police investigation until Phoebe McQueen (Mandip Gill) incriminates herself into becoming the prime suspect for the supposed murder.

She wanted them to have a similar relationship to Den (Leslie Grantham) and Angie Watts (Anita Dobson), a well known married couple from the rival soap opera EastEnders.

In comedic scenes Dylan is embarrassed by Grace's revealing outfit which attracts the attention of male students who begin wolf-whistling at her.

"[9] Writers plagued the duo with more relationship dramas such as Grace's affair with Kim and the introduction of Trevor's ex-girlfriend and Dylan's mother, Val Jenkins (Tanya Robb).

[7] Hollyoaks cast Vincent Ebrahim to play Big Bob, a villainous character created to cause conflict with Grace and Trevor.

Wood-Davis told Sarah Ellis of Inside Soap that Kim wants revenge when she discovers Grace is still having sex with Trevor.

[77] Hollyoaks released a trailer with advance spoilers revealing that Kim would orchestrate a car chase amongst the escalated drama surrounding Esther's surrogacy.

[83] During this time Hollyoaks writers began a casual sexual relationship between Grace and Darren Osborne (Ashley Taylor Dawson).

[90] Wall told Alison Gardner from What's on TV that Grace feels "jittery" in the days before her wedding because she is thinks Trevor is having an affair.

First they cast the roles of half-brothers Liam (Maxim Baldry), Jesse (Luke Jerdy) and Adam Donovan (Jimmy Essex).

"[103] In July 2023, Wall confirmed that she had been axed from Hollyoaks after ten years in the role of Grace, with her final scenes airing shortly afterwards.

"[114] Penny McGuire from What's on TV branded Grace the "village bad girl" and a fellow writer from the magazine labelled her a "ruthless" character.

[115][116] Jess Denham of The Independent reported that Hollyoaks sometimes gets labelled "too gay" by viewers because of their many sexuality related storylines, citing Grace seducing Kim for personal gain as an example.