Sabrina Brier

{{Short description|American influencer and comedian (born 1994)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Sabrina Brier

| image = SabrinaBrier-byPhilipRomano.jpg

| caption = Brier in 2025

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1994|8|4}}

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| education = Smith College (BA)

| mother = Susan Cinoman

| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|comedian|influencer}}

| module = {{Infobox TikTok personality |embed=yes

| page_display_name = Sabrina Brier

| page = sabrina.cinoman.brier

| followers = 818,000

| likes = 85 million

| stats_update = March 16, 2025}}

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Sabrina Plon Brier{{Cite web |title=Sabrina Brier - Ancestry.com |url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Sabrina_Brier&event=_usa_2&birth=1994&birth_x=0-0-0&event_x=_1-0&name_x=1_1&searchMode=advanced |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=www.ancestry.com}} (born August 4, 1994) is an American tiktoker, comedian and influencer. She became famous on TikTok in 2023, becoming known for her skits in which she plays privileged, self-involved characters.

Life and career

Brier was born on August 4, 1994, to Susan Cinoman, a playwright and former sketch comedian, and a cardiologist father. She is Jewish and has one older sister who works as a producer.{{cite web |last1=Jibril |first1=Halima |title=Sabrina Brier loves being a woman and wants you to love it too |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/60668/1/sabrina-brier-loves-being-a-woman-and-wants-you-to-love-it-too |quote=I share a birthday with Greta Gerwig, Meghan Markle, Barack Obama and Dylan and Cole Sprouse. |website=Dazed |access-date=November 22, 2023 |date=August 25, 2023}} Brier's parents divorced when she was five years old. She attended Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge, Connecticut and, while there, performed a monologue from The Taming of the Shrew for a Shakespeare competition in which she won first place. She then attended Smith College, where she majored in theater while taking improv classes. During college, she was an intern for the sixth season of the ABC political thriller series Scandal.{{cite web |last1=Simon |first1=Rachel |title=Comedian and TikTok Star Sabrina Brier on How 'Scandal' Launched Her Career |url=https://www.shondaland.com/shondaland-audio-podcasts/a60996156/comedian-and-tiktok-star-sabrina-brier-on-how-scandal-launched-her-career/ |publisher=Shondaland |access-date=August 8, 2024 |date=June 6, 2024}} She graduated in 2017 and soon moved to New York City. She worked in talent management for two years after graduating before working as an assistant for the writers of the ABC legal drama For Life.{{cite web |last1=Jacobs |first1=Alexandra |title=Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/style/sabrina-brier-tiktok.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=November 22, 2023 |date=March 14, 2023}}

Brier found success on TikTok, where she began posting in 2021, through posting skits in which she played privileged, self-involved characters, such as the "Extremely Passive Aggressive Roommate". By August 2023, she had gained more than 600,000 followers. Brier had a guest role in the Steven Soderbergh web series Command Z, which was released in July 2023.{{cite web |last1=Peralta |first1=Diego |title='Abbott Elementary' Season 3 Just Cast Your Favorite Annoying TikTok Bestie |url=https://collider.com/abbott-elementary-season-3-cast-sabrina-brier/ |website=Collider |access-date=February 23, 2024 |date=February 19, 2024}} {{As of|2023}}, she is represented by Creative Artists Agency. She appeared as fictional singer Biljana Electronica in a teaser video for the song "Planet of the Bass" by comedian Kyle Gordon as DJ Crazy Times on TikTok in August 2023.{{cite web |last1=Scorziello |first1=Sophia |title=The Story Behind 'Planet of the Bass,' Kyle Gordon's Eurodance Parody Sweeping the Internet |url=https://variety.com/2023/music/musicians/planet-of-the-bass-kyle-gordon-comedy-album-1235695832/ |website=Variety |access-date=November 22, 2023 |date=August 15, 2023}} In October 2023, for The Guardian, JD Reforma wrote of Brier that she had "elevated the loyal-but-basic best friend archetype into something sublime".{{cite web |last1=Reforma |first1=J. D. |title=JD Reforma: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/19/jd-reforma-the-10-funniest-things-i-have-ever-seen-on-the-internet |website=The Guardian |access-date=November 22, 2023 |date=October 18, 2023}} By 2024, videos of Brier saying "Oh!" became a popular reaction meme online, particularly on Twitter.{{cite web |last1=Carr |first1=Mary Kate |title=Abbott Elementary proves viral Internet stars can shine on TV |url=https://www.avclub.com/abbott-elementary-viral-stars-quinta-brunson-casey-frey-1851278895 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=February 23, 2024 |date=February 22, 2024}} In February 2024, she guest starred as Jessca, a substitute teacher, in "Smoking", an episode in season three of Abbott Elementary.{{cite web |last1=Okantah |first1=Ile-Ife |title=Abbott Elementary Recap: Pick Your Poison |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/abbott-elementary-recap-season-3-episode-4.html |website=Vulture |access-date=February 23, 2024 |date=February 21, 2024}} By June 2024, Brier had over 800 thousand followers on TikTok.{{cite magazine |last1=Jones |first1=C. T. |title=How Sabrina Brier Became the People's Princess of Internet Gays |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/sabrina-brier-tiktok-creator-main-character-comedy-1235033297/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=August 7, 2024 |date=June 5, 2024}}

In January 2025, Brier released the audiobook, That Friend, about an influencer in New York City with an advice podcast whose life starts to fall apart, through Simon & Schuster.{{cite web |last1=Rubin |first1=Rebecca |title=TikTok Star Sabrina Brier to Release Audiobook 'That Friend' in 2025 |url=https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/tiktok-sabrina-brier-that-girl-book-1236024014/ |website=Variety |access-date=August 7, 2024 |date=June 4, 2024}}

Filmography

=Television=

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scope="col" \| Year ! scope="col" \| Title ! scope="col" \| Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" \| Notes
2023 \| Command Z \| Pura Shujaa \| Episode: "The Climate II"
2024 \| Abbott Elementary \| Jessca \| Episode: "Smoking"

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scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Role

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

2023

| Command Z

| Pura Shujaa

| Episode: "The Climate II"

2024

| Abbott Elementary

| Jessca