The actress who conquered everyone's hearts as "Captain Marvel": Who is Brie Larson?

Her real name is Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers, she was born on October 1, 1989 in Sacramento, California. She was born to her mother, Heather Edwards, and father, Sylvain Desaulniers. Larson has a sister named Milaine. Larson's first language as a child was French. Additionally, she holds dual citizenship as Canada and the United States. She was mostly home-schooled, she. During the summer, she wrote and directed her own home movies starring her cousins and filmed in their garage. At the age of six, she became interested in acting, and that same year she auditioned for a training program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, becoming the youngest student admitted there.

When Larson was seven, she was traumatized by her parents' divorce. After their divorce, her mother decided to move to Los Angeles with her two daughters to improve Larson's acting. She got the stage name Larson from her Swedish great-grandmother, as her last name is difficult to pronounce. She got her first job playing a commercial parody for Barbie called "Barbie in Malibu Mudslide" on an episode of the talk show "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" in 1998. Later, she made guest appearances in many television series. In 2000, she appeared in the Fox sitcom "Schimmel".

She landed her first major role as Bob Saget's character's younger daughter, Emily, in the 2001-02 television show "Raising Dad," a one-season WB sitcom. The following year, she co-starred with Beverley Mitchell in "Right on Track," the Disney Channel original movie based on junior drag racing stars Erica and Courtney Enders. She later appeared in minor roles in the teen comedy film "Sleepover" (2004) and the fantasy romantic comedy "13 Going on 30".

Larson, who also learned to play the guitar at the age of eleven, became interested in music. However, she began to self-record and upload tracks to his own website. In 2003, she wrote and recorded a song called "Invisible Girl", which aired on KIIS-FM. She then signed a record business deal with Tommy Mottola of Casablanca Records. Two years later, she released her first and only album "Last Out of P.E.". One of the songs, "She Said", was featured in the MTV TV series "Total Request Live" and was ranked by Billboard on their weekly chart of the channel's most played videos. Additionally, it ranked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot Single Sales chart.

In 2006, Larson co-starred with Logan Lerman and Cody Linley in the family comedy "Hoot," about young vigilantes trying to save a group of owls. Despite receiving poor reviews, the film received praise for the roles of Larson and Linley. The following year, she appeared in a small role in the drama film "Remember the Daze" starring Amber Heard and directed by Jess Manafort. Around this time, she published an art and literature magazine called "Bunnies and Traps", in which she wrote her own columns and accepted applications from other artists and writers. Having considered quitting acting at some point because she was having a hard time finding a job, Larson even worked as a club DJ to earn a living.

Later, she played Kate Gregson, the cynical teenage daughter of Toni Collette's character in the Showtime comedy-drama TV series "United States of Tara." She was able to garner praise for her performance. Also in 2009, she appeared in "Tanner Hall," a coming-of-age drama about four girls at a boarding school with Rooney Mara. Although the film was not very well received, Larson's performance was praised for providing "one of the funniest parts of the movie". She played a cheerleader in the comedy movie "House Broken," which was released that year, and a popular high school student in the comedy "Just Peck."

The following year, she appeared in the stage production of Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" as Emily Webb. She then starred as a rock star named Envy in the comedy-drama film "Greenberg" directed by Noah Baumbach and the romantic action comedy film "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" directed by Edgar Wright. The latter did not do well commercially and has since become a cult. She then sang the single "Black Sheep" with the band Metric. Later, she played the troubled daughter of a corrupt cop in the crime drama movie "Rampart"(2011), directed by Oren Moverman.

She later contributed to filmmaking by writing and directing the short film "The Arm" with Jessie Ennis and Sarah Ramos. The film won a special jury award at the Sundance Film Festival. That same year, she starred as a seductive teenager in the critically-panic indie comedy drama "The Trouble with Bliss." She then played Molly, a high school student, in the cop action comedy film "21 Jump Street", an adaptation of the 1980s cop-style television series. With a worldwide gross of over $200 million, the film was considered Larson's most watched film to date.

Later, Larson teamed up with Dustin Bowser to co-write and direct "Weighting" (2013), a short film about a strained relationship. Larson made her breakthrough and starring debut in Destin Daniel Cretton's critically acclaimed independent drama "Short Term 12" as supervisor Grace. Her performance was critically acclaimed and earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead.

Also in 2013, Larson appeared in two supporting roles in the romantic comedy-drama film "Don Jon" and the underage romantic drama film "The Spectacular Now." In the first, she played Don Jon's (played by Gordon-Levitt) sister and was acclaimed for her performance. In the second, Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley co-starred and played Cassidy, Teller's character's ex-girlfriend. She later appeared in the crime drama movie "The Gambler" (2014), based on the film of the same name directed by Rupert Wyatt, as a literature student having an affair with her professor (played by Mark Wahlberg), who is a gambling addict.

Her first appearance in 2015 was in "Digging for Fire," a largely improvised ensemble comedy-drama film starring Jake Johnson. She later played the sister of Amy Schumer's character in the romantic comedy "Trainwreck," loosely based on Schumer's own life. The film was a commercial hit, grossing over $140 million against a production budget of $35 million.

Larson later got the lead role in the drama movie "Room," based on Emma Donoghue's novel of the same name. Preparing for the role was difficult for Larson. She also stayed out of sunlight to achieve her appearance, changed her diet, and had to exercise intensely to lose weight. The film was critically acclaimed, with great emphasis on performances by Larson and Jacob Tremblay. She won many awards for her performance, including the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award in the same category.

She then played the lead role in "Free Fire" (2016), an action black comedy about a warehouse conflict. The film failed to make up for its $7 million production budget. The following year, Larson appeared as a photojournalist with Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L. It was Larson's first big-budget mainstream release. Additionally, the film was a commercial success, grossing over $566 million worldwide.

Later that year, Larson played Jeannette Walls in the biographical drama film "The Glass Castle," based on Walls' memoirs and reuniting her with Destin Daniel Cretton. The film tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her unconventional parents (played by Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts). The 2017 Toronto International Film Festival marked the release of "Unicorn Store," the fantasy comedy-drama that is Larson's directorial debut. Selected for digital distribution by Netflix, she stars as an art student fascinated and disillusioned with unicorns.

After a year off screen, Larson appeared as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel in Marvel Studios' first female-starring Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero movie "Captain Marvel" (2019). She took nine months of training in judo, boxing and wrestling for her role in preparation. Her role in the movie was praised with mixed reactions. She then reprized her role in the superhero movie "Avengers: Endgame", which she shot before Captain Marvel. The film went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing $2.79 billion worldwide, and the first female superhero film to surpass $1 billion worldwide in "Captain Marvel."

Also in 2019, she reunited with Destin Daniel Cretton for the third time in the biographical legal drama film "Just Mercy" based on Bryan Stevenson's memory of the wrongful conviction of death row inmate Walter McMillian. In the film, she played the supporting role of Eva Ansley, an advocate, and was praised for her portrayal. Also, the lead roles in the movie were shared by Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx.

The following year, she produced and starred in an episode of "The Messy Truth VR Experience," a virtual reality series created by Van Jones for which they won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Interactive Programming. In 2022, she reprized the role of Captain Marvel for the Disneyland Paris theme park ride "Avengers Assemble: Filght Force" and for the Disney Wish cruise ship film "Avengers: Quantum Encounter". Then she wrote, directed and hosted the documentary series "Growing Up". Meanwhile, she appeared in the augmented reality short film "Remembering". She also played the character of Paradigm in the online video game "Fortnite Battle Royale".

Larson is scheduled to serve as a member of the jury at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Larson took a break from acting and focused on personal interests such as podcasting and vlogging to improve herself. After being away for more than three years, she plans to return to the screen in 2023. That year, she will join the cast of the action movie "Fast X," the tenth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise. That same year, she will once again play the role of Captain Marvel in the sequel superhero movie "The Marvels." She will also star in and executive produce the comedy-drama TV series "Lessons in Chemistry" based on the novel of the same name for Apple TV+.

Personal life

In 2013, Larson began a relationship with Phantom Planet lead singer Alex Greenwald. The couple was engaged from 2016 to 2019. Larson has been in a relationship with actor-director Elijah Allan-Blitz since 2019. The couple stated that they broke up in 2023.

Secretive about her private life, Larson also refuses to answer questions that bother her in her interviews. Maintaining an active social media presence, Larson uses it as a platform to share her ideas and posts. In 2020, she founded her own YouTube channel. They also hosted a podcast called "Learning Lots" with actress Jessie Ennis. Larson was listed on Forbes magazine's 2016 "30 Under 30" list. She was later featured in People magazine's "annual beauty" list in 2016 and 2019. She was listed as one of the "Best American actors under 30" by IndieWire in 2018. In 2019, she was named one of the "100 most influential people in the world" by Time magazine.

Larson took part in the aid fund, campaign, material and moral support for various institutions, organizations and associations as much as she could. In 2018, Larson collaborated with 300 women in Hollywood to co-found the "Time's Up" initiative to protect women from harassment and discrimination, and that same year became one of the first actors to include an inclusion rider clause in their film and press promotion contracts.