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Brec Bassinger

American actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ19281662
Source-derived summary

Brec Bassinger (born May 25, 1999) is an American actress. She began her career as a teenager and received recognition for her leading role in the Nickelodeon comedy series Bella and the Bulldogs (2015–2016). She then starred in the horror film 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019).

Bassinger gained recognition for leading the CW superhero series Stargirl (2020–2022), winning two Saturn Awards for her portrayal of the title character. She also starred in the supernatural horror film Final Destination Bloodlines (2025), her highest-grossing release to date.

Early life

Bassinger was born in Saginaw, Texas on May 25, 1999. She has two older brothers named Beric and Brice.

Before becoming an actress, Bassinger was a competitive cheerleader. She also played basketball, volleyball, and ran track and field. She participated in beauty pageants and was an Our Little Miss World winner.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Brec Bassinger” is american actress. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Brec, Bassinger and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2015, 2016, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-05-25. For this dossier, Brec, Bassinger and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american actress” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19281662. VIAF identifies the subject as 1212157643298038590009. The Library of Congress control number is no2019180355. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2015, 2016 and 2019.

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  • Building a first chronology
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This entry incorporates text from Brec Bassinger” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.