Sabrina Lassegue

About

Actress, producer, director, and founder/CEO of Yellow Rain Productions, a multimedia production company. She is known for performing in the 2020 short film For the Taken and the 2023 feature film Get the Girl. She has also directed and produced numerous short films and music videos, including the award-winning films Blight and Along Came Sundae. 

Before Fame

She became passionate about dance and acting as a child and started making films when she was just 5 years old. 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.

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 cited Kerry Washington, Ava DuVernay, Issa Rae, and Viola Davis as some of her greatest inspirations.