Violet McGraw started acting at a young age. In 2016, McGraw made her acting debut in Reckless Juliets (2017) as Aria Morgan and the television series Love as Nina (2018). She was most known for roles of Alice in 2019's Jett, her cameo scene as a child in a shopping cart in 2018's blockbuster, directed by Steve Spielberg, Ready Player One. In 2018 she had her first major role as young Nell Crain, younger version of Victoria Pedretti's character, in Mike Flanagan's Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House. She had been announced as part of the cast in September 2017, and the cast was nominated for the OFTA Television Award for Best Ensemble in 2019. McGraw then went on to star in Drama film Our Friend (2019) as Evie Teague with supporting roles in Doctor Sleep (2019) as Violet and Bennett's War (2019). Based on her experiences in The Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep, McGraw was able to give advice to her older sister Madeleine when the latter starred in the horror film, The Black Phone.

McGraw made her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in 2021's Black Widow as a young Yelena Belova, with the adult version played by Florence Pugh. In 2021, she also starred in Separation (2021) as Jenny Vahn. She starred with fellow child star Amie Donald as one of the lead characters in the Universal Pictures technological horror film M3GAN, for Blumhouse, released in January 2023.The Hollywood Reporter noted that Donald and co-star McGraw "ended up becoming fast friends by the end of filming".

Filmography:

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2018	Ready Player One	Shopping Cart Kid	Uncredited
2019	Bennett's War	Rebecca
	Our Friend	Evie Teague
	Doctor Sleep	Violet
2021	Separation	Jenny Vahn
	Black Widow	Young Yelena Belova
2022	A Christmas Mystery	Violet Pierce
	I Believe in Santa	Ella
2023	M3GAN	Cady
2025	M3GAN 2.0	Cady