Sabrina Lassegue

About

Actress, director, producer, model, writer & advocate, who studied at Juilliard, Harvard Business School and AMDA. She is the founder of Extinguished Youth Productions, a movie studio & holdings company. She is best known for the award-winning film, "All the Men's Hangers" & acting in films like, "Get the Girl", "Inauguration Day" and in Lion King. She is also a well-known Internet personality who goes by "Directedbybrini" and has directed talent like Jamie Foxx and Keke Palmer.

Before fame

She became passionate about dance and acting as a child and started making films when she was just 5 years old. She played Young Nala in Lion King and modeled for brands like GAP. Inspired by Steven Spielberg, she started writing her own scripts at the age of 12 and by the time she was 16, she had written 3 full-length screenplays. She was signed as an actress after graduating from the American Musical Dramatic Academy College of Performing Arts. 

Trivia

After being a victim of sexual assault at the age of 15 and later learning of her childhood friend being sex trafficked and murdered, she decided to use her platform to make change in her home state of Maryland. She spoke to a panel of over a dozen government officials and helped get the PROTECT OUR Children Act of 2022 get passed by Congress. The act provides aid to recover children and incarcerate perpetrators of sex offenses against children. She shared the entire story of her journey in a video shared to her TikTok account on December 7, 2022. She is a UNICEF NEXTGEN Ambassador & Council Member. In an interview with the LA Inquisitor, she confirmed she can eat apples with her feet, which she learned as a child while training for the circus with Cirque du Soléis talent.

Family life

In a 2021 interview with Shoutout LA, she expressed her gratitude toward her mother and father who she described as "the most supportive parents."

Associated with

She has frequently credited with Brenna D'Amico, Tim Johnson Jr, and Israel Johnson. She has cited Kerry Washington, Ava DuVernay, Issa Rae, and Viola Davis as some of her greatest inspirations.