Brie Larson is an American film actress and musician, singer, and songwriter. Viewer Brie Larson is known for the movie “Room” (2015). The role of Joy Newsom in this film was a breakthrough in her biography and brought Brie Larson prestigious awards, including Oscar, Golden Globe, and many others. In 2019, the blockbuster Captain Marvel was released, in which Larson played the main role. By the end of the year, Bree became the most popular actress by requests on the IMDb portal.
Childhood and education
Brie Larson was born in Sacramento, California on October 1, 1989. Bree’s real name is Desaulniers, her pseudonym Larson appeared when she began her career as an actress.
Father – Sylvain Desolniers. Mother – Heather Desaulniers. Bree has a younger sister, Melanie.
Bree’s parents worked in chiropractic medicine (a form of alternative medicine that attempts to diagnose and treat people by manipulating their musculoskeletal system, especially the spine), Larson’s biography on Wikipedia says.
When Brie Larson was still a child, her parents separated. Bree does not communicate with her father.
Bree’s grandparents were French Canadians. Paternal grandmother Gabrielle Desolnier died in December 2015. As a child, Brie Larson communicated with relatives mainly in French but later switched to English. The actress admits that with age she has forgotten her first language, but can still connect a few words in French.
Mother and children moved to Los Angeles, where Bree was fond of theater.
Choosing for herself the profession of an actress, the girl began to study acting at the American Conservatory of Theater in San Francisco. The girl’s first theatrical work took place on television – it was participation in sketches for the “Night Show with Jay Leno” in 1998. At the same time, Bree adopted the stage name Larson, which she borrowed from her Kirsten Larson doll from the American Girl collection, which she was given as a child.
The choice of the pseudonym Brie Larson was explained by the fact that her surname Desaulniers or Desolnier in the French manner was not very harmonious, which means that it could interfere with her career.
Brie Larson’s film career
Following the success of The Night Show with Jay Leno, Brie Larson was cast in the TV series Father Growing. However, this series did not become popular with viewers. In 2003, Bree played a small role as an insidious school beauty in the teen movie “Party at Night”. Further, Larson had many small roles that added fame to the aspiring actress.
In 2006, the film “Scream of an Owl” appeared, and in 2007, a little penguin spoke with Larson’s voice in the animated film “Farce of the Penguins”. In the biography of Brie Larson, there were further roles in the TV series “Such a different Tara” (2009), and in the comedy action movie “Macho and Nerd” (2012).
In 2013, Brie Larson landed the lead role in Destin Cretton’s drama Short Term 12, which was a breakthrough for her career. The girl managed to play the role very emotionally and convincingly. This film won the Grand Prix at several independent film festivals.
2015 brought the actress a new role in the comedy “Girl without complexes”. And in the same year, Bree played the main role in the film “Room”. According to the script, the attacker kidnapped the heroine of the picture, 17-year-old Joyce, and since then she has been locked in a barn in his backyard. Their common son Jack was born there, he did not leave this room until at the age of 5 he had an opportunity to escape. The picture describes the complexities of adapting Joyce and her son to the world around them.
To convincingly play a woman cut off from the rest of the world, Bree plucked up the courage and conducted an experiment on herself: she isolated herself from people for a whole month and strictly limited herself to food. And during the filming, the actress did not wash her face on purpose so that the dirt on her face was real. The film received wide acclaim and praise even from notorious skeptics and cynics, and the role of Joy brought the 26-year-old actress several awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe and BAFTA (2016).
The film “Room” was highly appreciated by film critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film with Brie Larson received a 94% rating based on 261 reviews with an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. On Metacritic, the film received an 85 out of 100 rating, which corresponds to the status of “general recognition.”
In 2016, Larson was ranked by Forbes and People, noted for her career and beauty.
Brie Larson’s musical career
Brie Larson is also known in the United States as a musician, singer, and songwriter. Her interest in music began in early 2003 when she began uploading her songs on her website. And in 2005 the actress released her debut album Finally Out of P.E. The singer sometimes gave concerts in different cities of the country, and later Bree recorded a second album, which was never officially released. Larson also performed several songs in films and TV series – “Ice and Heart”, “Cry of an Owl”, and “Room”.
Brie Larson’s personal life
In 2016, Brie Larson became engaged to American musician Alex Grivold, lead singer of the Phantom Planet rock band. Bree and Alex lived together in Los Angeles.
Brie Larson has been dating Alex Greenwald since 2013, but the latest news speaks of changes in the actress’s personal life. People, citing a source in early 2019, reported that the couple had canceled the engagement. “So far, they have taken a step back from their engagement, but remain close,” the news reported.
Bree does not want to discuss her personal life and refuses to answer questions in interviews that make her uncomfortable. Brie Larson is active on social networks, uploads her photos there, and uses them as a platform for PR and the exchange of opinions.
