A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Sasha Sierra Allen
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Born:
June 4, 1982
Sasha Allen is an American actress and singer born and raised in Harlem. While a freshman at LaGuardia High School, she snagged a role in the D.C. premiere production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Whistle Down the Wind. At the age of seventeen, she signed a recording deal with Electra Records, and was later signed by Arista Records. While she was attending Hunter College, she was asked to join the cast of the movie Camp (2003) from writer/director Todd Graff. She eventually became a backup singer for artists such as Christina Aguilera, John Legend and Alicia Keys. She made her Broadway debut as Dionne in the 2009 revival of Hair. She reprised the role for the 2010 London's West End revival of the musical. In 2013, she was a semifinals on the fourth season of NBC’s The Voice. In 2016, she joined The Rolling Stones on tour, replacing backing vocalist Lisa Fischer.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.