Sasha Lane

Sasha Lane is a bisexual actress of Black and Asian descent who casually came out on Twitter in 2015, well before her film career took off. She made her screen debut in Andrea Arnold's "American Honey" (2016), playing Star — a young woman from a broken home who joins a group of itinerant magazine sellers and falls into a wild, consuming romance. The performance, entirely improvised and drawn from Lane's own emotional reality, was hailed as an extraordinary naturalistic debut. Her subsequent work has included several explicitly queer roles: she played Coley in Desiree Akhavan's acclaimed film "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" (2018), a story about gay conversion therapy in which her character's casual, joyful queerness stands in contrast to the film's institutional horror. She also appeared in Joe Swanberg's "Hearts Beat Loud" (2018). Lane has appeared in "Hellboy" (2019), Amazon's "The Boys" (2019–present) as Starlight's queer friend, and Marvel's "Eternals" (2021). She has spoken about her bisexuality in matter-of-fact terms, treating it as one dimension of a full and complex identity.