Sasha Spielberg
Quick Facts
Biography
Sasha Rebecca Spielberg (born May 14, 1990) is an American actress and musicianalso known as her stage name Buzzy Lee.
Life and career
Spielberg was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of film director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw. Her father is from an Orthodox Jewish family, whereas her mother is a Jewish convert. She is their first child together, although each have children from previous relationships. She has three sisters: Mikaela Spielberg, Destry Spielberg, and half-sister, actress Jessica Capshaw, as well as three brothers: Sawyer Spielberg, Theo Spielberg, and half-brother Max Spielberg. She graduated from Brown University.
She has appeared as an actress in several of her father's movies, including The Terminal, Munich, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and The Post.
She performed in a band called Wardell (previously known as Brother/Sister), with her brother Theo. Their Brother/Sister EP, The Accidental Zoo, was released April 4, 2011. Their album Love/Idleness was released in 2015.
Spielberg has collaborated with composer and fellow Brown University alumnus Nicolas Jaar under the name of Just Friends. They released a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche" and an original song, "Don't Tell Me."
In 2015, Spielberg produced, wrote for, and starred in Snapchat's first mobile series, Literally Can't Even. She also shares her mini-improv sketches on Instagram. On April 27, 2018, she released her solo EP Facepaint, with 5 songs.
Discography
Year | Title |
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2013 | The Brother/Sister EP |
2015 | Love/Idleness |
2018 | Facepaint - EP (as Buzzy Lee) |
2019 | Close Encounters of Their Own Kind (as Buzzy Lee, with Tommy Mandel) |