Grace Greenleaf

Grace Greenleaf is the main protagonist of the series Greenleaf on the Oprah Winfrey Network, and the daughter of James Greenleaf and Mae Greenleaf. She is the former response pastor of Calvary World Ministries in Memphis, TN who started a church group for the victims of sexual abuse called The Sisters of Tamar. She is the ex-girlfriend of Ray Fisher, to which she has a daughter with named Sophia Greenleaf.

She returns to home 20 years after leaving the family when her sister Faith "mysteriously dies". It is later indicated that she committed suicide. She later stays to investigate her sister's death and the cover-ups of the rape incidents of several adolescent/teen girls in Memphis.

Early Life
In Silence and Loneliness (Season 2, Episode 13) it is revealed that Grace was almost raped by Uncle Mac before he started abusing Faith. When Grace was little, Uncle Mac told her about an old Civil War relic that was on the property and she said "He made it sound so cool, so I went with him." Grace then tells Darius that she fought him off before he could go any further.

Before she left Memphis, she was a critically acclaimed pastor and was a singer in a gospel group called Mystique. Grace, Faith, Charity, and Pastor Rebecca would perform at various churches in the Memphis area. This changed when Faith was being sexually abused and Grace left for Northwestern University (mentioned sometime in Season 2)

Season 1
Grace returns to her original home in Memphis, Tennessee with her daughter Sophia to attend the funeral of her sister Faith who is later revealed to have committed suicide by drowning herself in a nearby lake. Grace's return has some other family members such as Mae and Kerissa asking her questions on what her life is like in Phoenix, Arizona which is where she lived before returning. She go She eventually decides to stay in Memphis with Sophia so she can investigate her Uncle Mac's, who had raped Faith and several other girls prior to her return. Other than Faith, this included Darlene's daughter Vida, and later revealed Danielle Turner, daughter of a former member of Calvary Fellowship. In the episode "We Shall See Him as He Is" Grace goes to dinner with her childhood friend and ex-boyfriend Noah Kendall to meet his fiance Isabel.