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Brighton Sharbino (born August 19, 2002) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Lizzie Samuels on the
About the role she stated "It was very different from shooting ''The Walking Dead'' and I loved it ‘cause I got to be a princess. In ''The Walking Dead'' they would put dirt on me. OUAT put extensions on me, were fixing my hair, and let me wear a princess dress, it was really fun to do. It was a dream."
Sharbino played Abby Beam in the 2016 faith based film '' Miracles From Heaven,'' alongside Queen Latifah and 
In 2017, Sharbino played the role of Tiffany Hart in the film '' Bitch''. That same year, she had a guest role as Mandy Fowler in an episode of '' Law and Order: Special Victims Unit''; and appeared in '' Growing Up Smith'', a coming of age comedy about growing up in small town USA in 1979 in which Sharbino played the role of Amy. The film won numerous best audience awards and jury awards at film festivals, including the
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television series '' The Walking Dead''.
Early life
Sharbino's siblingsSaxon
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and Sawyer Sharbino also act, and the family moved to Los Angeles
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when Brighton was nine. She switched to online school to make time for her acting career.
Career
Sharbino began her career singing on ''Barney & Friends
''Barney & Friends'' is an American children's television series created by Sheryl Leach targeted at children ages two to five. The flagship production of the ''Barney'' franchise, it originally aired on PBS under the PBS Kids brand from Ap ...
'' on PBS
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. She had other early guest television appearances on series such as ''Hannah Montana
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'', '' Prime Suspect'', '' The New Normal'' and ''True Detective
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''.
In 2013, Sharbino landed her first major recurring role as Lizzie Samuels in the fourth and fifth seasons of '' The Walking Dead''. She appeared in the film '' Cheap Thrills'' and played Young Abby Sciuto
Abigail Beethoven "Abby \ Abbs" Sciuto is a fictional character from the American television series '' NCIS''. She is portrayed by Pauley Perrette; in the season 10 episode "Hit and Run," a young Abby was played by Brighton Sharbino in flashba ...
in the "Hit and Run" episode of '' NCIS''.
She played the young version of Ingrid in the episode "The Snow Queen
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" in season 4 of ''Once Upon a Time''.
About the role she stated "It was very different from shooting ''The Walking Dead'' and I loved it ‘cause I got to be a princess. In ''The Walking Dead'' they would put dirt on me. OUAT put extensions on me, were fixing my hair, and let me wear a princess dress, it was really fun to do. It was a dream."
Sharbino played Abby Beam in the 2016 faith based film '' Miracles From Heaven,'' alongside Queen Latifah and Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an American actress. Born in Houston, Texas and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, Garner studied theater at Denison University and began acting as an understudy for the Roundabout Theatre Company ...
. The movie was shot in Atlanta in the summer of 2015 and Sharbino had her 13th birthday on set.
In 2017, Sharbino played the role of Tiffany Hart in the film '' Bitch''. That same year, she had a guest role as Mandy Fowler in an episode of '' Law and Order: Special Victims Unit''; and appeared in '' Growing Up Smith'', a coming of age comedy about growing up in small town USA in 1979 in which Sharbino played the role of Amy. The film won numerous best audience awards and jury awards at film festivals, including the Woodstock
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, Naples, CAAMFest
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and Prescott festivals.
In 2018, Sharbino acted alongside her older sister Saxon in the film ''Urban Country''; she played the role of Faith, a teenager that moves to a horse ranch to help her ill mother.
In 2019, she starred as antagonist Allison Betts in season 1 of the Brat web series '' Zoe Valentine'' and appeared in the drama film '' American Skin''. She starred in the 2020 Snap Original series ''Players''.In 2022, Sharbino portrayed the younger version ofBrooke Shields Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, Shields gained widespread notoriety at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film ''Pretty Baby (1978 film), Pretty Baby ...inHulu Hulu (, ) is an American Subscription business model, subscription streaming media service owned by Disney Streaming, a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment segment of the Walt Disney Company. It was launched on October 29, 2007, initially as ...’s ’Welcome to Chippendales ''Welcome to Chippendales'' is an American biographical drama television miniseries created by Robert Siegel inspired by the book ''Deadly Dance: The Chippendales Murders'' by K. Scot Macdonald and Patrick MontesDeOca. It stars Kumail Nanjian ...’’.
Personal life
Sharbino plays the piano and tookparkour
Parkour () is an athletic Training#Physical training, training discipline or sport in which practitioners (called ''traceurs'') attempt to get from one point to another in the fastest and most efficient way possible, without assisting equipment ...
classes with her younger brother.
Filmography
Film
Television
Web
Music videos
Audio
References
External links
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharbino, Brighton Living people 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Texas American child actresses American film actresses American radio actresses American television actresses American web series actresses People from Flower Mound, Texas 2002 births