After a considerable period of frustration correcting people who consistently mispronounced her birth name "Desaulniers," Brie changed it to Larson after her Kirsten Larson doll that she owned as a youngster.
Brie Larson is an American actress and filmmaker. She was born on October 1, 1989, in Sacramento, California, to Heather and Sylvain Desaulniers. Her parents divorced when she was a child, and she was raised by her mother. She has a younger sister, Milaine. Larson attended the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles. She began her acting career in television, appearing in episodes of the series Touched by an Angel (1999) and Popular (1999–2001). Her film debut came in the independent drama Special Needs (2002).
Larson’s breakout role came in the teen comedy film Hoot (2006). She subsequently appeared in the independent films Greenberg (2010) and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). She gained wider recognition for playing the lead role in the drama Short Term 12 (2013), for which she received critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
Larson’s other notable films include the comedies The Gambler (2014) and Trainwreck (2015), the biographical drama Room (2015), for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress, and the action thrillers Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Free Fire (2017). She made her directorial debut with the short film Weighting (2017).
Larson has also appeared on stage and in music videos. She has been married to musician Alex Greenwald since 2016.
Early Life
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Brie Larson was born on October 1, 1989, in Sacramento, California, to Heather and Sylvain Desaulniers. Her parents divorced when she was a child, and she was raised by her mother. She has a younger sister, Milaine. Larson attended the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles.
Career
Larson began her acting career in television, appearing in episodes of the series Touched by an Angel (1999) and Popular (1999–2001). Her film debut came in the independent drama Special Needs (2002).
Larson’s breakout role came in the teen comedy film Hoot (2006). She subsequently appeared in the independent films Greenberg (2010) and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). She gained wider recognition for playing the lead role in the drama Short Term 12 (2013), for which she received critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
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Larson’s other notable films include the comedies The Gambler (2014) and Trainwreck (2015), the biographical drama Room (2015), for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress, and the action thrillers Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Free Fire (2017). She made her directorial debut with the short film Weighting (2017).
Larson has also appeared on stage and in music videos. She has been married to musician Alex Greenwald since 2016.
General Info
Full Name
Brie Larson
Date Of Birth
October 1, 1989
Height
1.7 m, 1.83 m
Weight
73 kg
Profession
Screenwriter, Singer-songwriter, Film director, Poet, Actor
Education
American Conservatory Theater, Mountain View High School, Texas A&M University
Nationality
American, American
Family
Parents
Heather Desaulniers, Sylvain Desaulniers, Marni Jo Larson, Kjell Larson
Siblings
Milaine Desaulniers
Accomplishments
Awards
Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, Independent Spiri...
Nominations
BAFTA Rising Star Award, MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Drama, MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo, Empire Award for Best Actress, AACTA International Award for Best Actress, Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture
Movies
Room, Kong: Skull Island, Short Term 12, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, 21 Jump Street, Trainwreck, Free Fire, The Spectacular Now, The Gambler, Don Jon, Hoot, 13 Going on 30, Captain Marvel, Right on Track, Tanner Hall, Rampart, Sleepover, Greenberg, Digging for Fire, The Trouble with Bliss, The Glas...
Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.
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Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiny three-year-old comes out in you.
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I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.
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I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.
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I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.
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I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.
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I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.
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I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.
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I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.
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I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.
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In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. Rampart (2011) I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.
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Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.
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Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.
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I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.
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For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.
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For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.
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I didn't go to prom--I was home-schooled.
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I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland", so we've got some strange names in our family.
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I was three when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.
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I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
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I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.
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It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.
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It's very scary to allow the world to see you.
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Became engaged to Alex Greenwald after he proposed to her during a trip to Tokyo in March 2016.
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Older sister of Milaine Larson.
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Her mother tongue is French.
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After a considerable period of frustration correcting people who consistently mispronounced her birth name "Desaulniers," Brie changed it to Larson after her Kirsten Larson doll that she owned as a youngster.
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Was the 146th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Room (2015) at The 88th Annual Academy Awards (2016).
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Released a pop album "Finally Out of P.E." in 2005, which flopped by selling only 3,500 copies. Larson even toured with Jesse McCartney for Teen People's Rock in Shop Tour. Despite this being her only music album, she also sung a song on the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) soundtrack.
To prepare for her role as Ma in Room (2015), she stayed at home for a whole month and went on a strict diet, to get an understanding of what Ma and Jack were going through.
Has acted since she was seven years old. However, she considered quitting acting several times as she found the film business to be too difficult and was unable to get the parts she wanted. She pursued careers in photography, interior design and animal training, but ultimately decided to stick with acting.
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Brie's go-to karaoke song is Usher Raymond's "Burn" from the 2004 album "Confessions".
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Daughter of Heather (Edwards) and Sylvain Desaulniers. Her paternal grandparents were Aurèle Desaulniers and Gabrielle Marie-Therese (Chatelain) Desaulniers (1931-2015), who were French-Canadians from Winnipeg. Her mother's family is based in California. Her mother has English, Swedish, German, Welsh, and Scottish ancestry. Brie's stage surname, "Larson", is after her matrilineal great-grandmother, Elva Josephine Larson.
First job was performing in sketches on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992). Soon after, was cast in the television series, Schimmel (2000), which was announced in 2000 but never aired, since right before filming, Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with cancer. After being "on hold" for six months, Fox canceled the show.
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Moved to Los Angeles in 1998, right before her ninth birthday.
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Read the book "Hoot" before she had read the screenplay.
