Brie Larson

Born on October 1, 1989, in Sacramento, Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers comes from a French-speaking Canadian family, which explains why during her childhood she spoke mostly the language of Voltaire. Her parents, chiropractors who ran a clinic together in the Californian town, divorced when she was a child, so she moved to Los Angeles with her sister and her mother, who took advantage of her new residence in the movie mecca to introduce the girl to numerous castings.

“I didn’t consider myself a child actress, but rather went to castings to try my luck,” the interpreter declared. At the age of 9, she debuted as an actress on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”, one of the most successful television programs in the United States, where she appeared in humorous skits. Since Anglo-Saxons mispronounced her last name, Desaulniers, she adopted her stage name, Brie Larson, inspired by her great-grandmother’s maiden name. She was signed as the protagonist of the television series Schimmel , but when it was going to start, the protagonist, Robert Schimmel, was diagnosed with cancer, so Fox, the producer, delayed filming and finally canceled it.

She was next cast in small television roles, until she became Bob Saget ‘s youngest daughter in The Troubled Dad , which didn’t make it past the first season. Disney Channel gave her the leading role, along with Beverly Mitchell, in their TV movie All on Wheels , where they played two sisters who wanted to succeed in the masculine world of dragster racing, the fastest-moving vehicles on Earth.

It was not as relevant as other productions of the house, for example High School Musical . But Brie Larson did not lack for work, as she appeared in an episode of Ghost Whisperer , and she became the daughter of Toni Collette in the series United States of Tara . In 2005 she tried her luck as a singer, with the album “Finally out of PE”, dedicated to a teacher who had a thing for her in high school. And though she did go on concert tours, she eventually gave up on her music career, to focus on her own acting endeavors.

In cinema, she achieved her first important role in Scott Pilgrim Against the World , an adaptation of a comic, where she was the ex-girlfriend of the protagonist, Michael Cera . The young woman was already pointing ways, but unfortunately, the film was a resounding failure. “I have learned never to think about how a project will be received, I concentrate on doing my job and enjoying it,” she says in interviews.

From that moment on, she did not stop appearing on screen in titles such as Class Infiltrator , in which she was the girlfriend of a drug dealer, Don Jon , in which she briefly gave life to the protagonist’s sister, Joseph Gordon-Levitt , And suddenly you , where she became the sister of the comedian Amy Schumer , and above all the ‘indie’ production Las vidas de Grace , where the central character, alluded to in the title, supervisor of a shelter for adolescents without resources, was worked on a lot.

The peculiar Dublin filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson ( Frank ) proposed the biggest challenge of her career, playing the mother of a little boy who has been locked up for five years in The Room , a film that has obtained four Oscar nominations, although Larson’s in the interpretive category is the safest. In order to embody the character, she isolated herself for a month, and had to undergo a strict regimen that transformed her physically.

In the sentimental field, Brie Larson maintains a relationship with the Californian rocker Alex Greenwald, leader of Phantom Planet, a group known for interpreting the main theme of the OC series , with whom she shares a love for music, art and history. Apparently, Larson likes spending time the most… in her room? “When you spend many days playing someone else’s life, all you think about is going back home to be you again. That way you can also review your own memories, which can be useful for embodying future characters.”