Brec Bassinger

Bassinger was born in Saginaw, Texas on May 25, 1999.^[1][2][3] She resides with her mother, while the rest of her family remains in Texas.^[4] She has two older brothers named Beric and Brice.^[5]

Before becoming an actress, Bassinger was a competitive cheerleader.^[6] She also played basketball, volleyball, and ran track and field.^[7] She participated in beauty pageants and was an Our Little Miss World Winner. She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of eight.^[8]

Bassinger began acting in 2013 with the recurring role of Emma on the Nickelodeon sitcom The Haunted Hathaways.^[9] The following year, she was cast in the leading role of Bella on another Nickelodeon show, the comedy series Bella and the Bulldogs.^[10] It ran for two seasons from 2015 to 2016, and Bassinger announced the show's cancellation.^[11] In 2016, she joined the cast of the direct-to-video teen comedy film Status Update, which was released in 2018.^[12]

In 2018, Bassinger played the role of Roni in the Hulu television series All Night.^[13] Also in 2018, Bassinger was cast in the lead role of Courtney Whitmore / Stargirl in The CW series Stargirl.^[14] The show was created by Geoff Johns, who cast Bassinger in the role because "She has the humor, she has the enthusiasm, the energy, the innate optimism, and Brec really embodies who Stargirl is".^[15] The series premiered on DC Universe and The CW in May 2020, ran for three seasons until December 2022, and was critically acclaimed.^[16][17] Linda Maleh of Forbes wrote that Bassinger's performance "brings all the optimism and idealism of someone young with her whole life ahead of her".^[18] Bassinger won two Saturn Awards for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series out of three nominations.

In 2019, Bassinger made her feature film debut with the survival horror 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, which grossed $47 million and received mixed reviews.^[19][20] She followed this with The Man in the White Van (2023), an independent thriller film where she plays a starring role, also the recipient of mixed reviews.^[21] Better received was her role in Final Destination Bloodlines, the sixth film in the Final Destination franchise which saw Bassinger playing a younger version of Iris Campbell.^[22] She was cast in 2024, and it was released on May 16, 2025,^[23] becoming the best reviewed film of the series and grossing over $305 million worldwide.^[24][25]