Brie Larson

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Brie Larson at the National Air and Space Museum , 2018

Brie Larson , actually Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989 in Sacramento , California ) is an American actress , singer , songwriter and filmmaker.

Larson was best known for her role in the television series Tara's Worlds . For her acting performance in the film drama room she has received numerous film prizes, including an Academy Award ("Oscar"), a Golden Globe , a SAG Award and a BAFTA Award . In 2017 she starred in her first big budget movie, the adventure film Kong: Skull Island . Since 2019 she has played the role of Captain Marvel / Carol Danvers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ; started in the movie of the same name, Captain Marvel .

Life

Brie Larson has a younger sister named Mimsy. Brie decided to become an actress when she was seven and was one of the youngest students at the American Conservatory Theater . She moved to Los Angeles in 1998 shortly before her ninth birthday and still lives there today.

Acting

Larson's first engagement was in skits on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno . Shortly thereafter, it was for the American television series mold for the role of Samantha cast , while in US television network Fox announced, but was never aired. Three weeks later, Larson auditioned for a new series with the working title In Your Dreams on The WB and was given the role of Emily, the youngest daughter of the character played by Bob Saget . The series aired under the title Raising Dad between 2001 and 2002, but was discontinued as it aired. Larson himself received an initial nomination for the Young Artist Award for Best Actress in a Series . She also played a role in the never-aired pilot for the ABC series Hope & Faith , but was not included in the series along with a few other cast members.

In 2003 Larson starred in the role of Courtney Enders in the Disney film Die Rennfahrerin and in 2004 together with a number of other young actors in the film Suddenly in Love , which earned her another nomination for the Young Artist Award with the rest of the cast. She had a small role in 30 Overnight and also - together with Logan Lerman and Cody Linley , with whom she is also good friends in private - in the children's book adaptation Owls - Little Friends in Big Danger (2006). In it, she was seen as the stepsister of a runaway who, together with her brother and his friend, takes up the fight for a group of owls that are supposed to lose their habitat due to corrupt politics. For the part of Beatrice she was again nominated for the Young Artist Award - this time for best leading actress in a feature film. In the animated film The Crazy Journey of the Penguins , she gave her voice to a penguin. In 2007 she played the role of Angie in The Beautiful Ordinary .

In 2008 she played a role in the short film The Babysitter , in an episode of Ghost Whisperer, and in the film The Girls of Tanner Hall . Larson also played the role of Kate Gregson in the award-winning television series Taras Welten and the Envy Adams in Scott Pilgrim against the rest of the world . In 2012 she starred as Molly in the comedy 21 Jump Street and in 2013 in Destin Cretton's feature film Short Term 12 , a slightly modified remake of his 2008 award-winning short film of the same name difficult teenagers of their own past is aware they won the 2013 Best Actor award of the International film festival of Locarno .

For her performance in the film Raum ( Room ), Larson was honored at the Golden Globe Awards 2016 in the category Golden Globe Award: Best Actress - Drama . For this performance, she also received the Oscar for best leading actress . At Comic-Con 2016 it was announced that Larson would play the eponymous main character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film adaptation of Captain Marvel . In total, she signed a contract for seven films with Marvel.

On June 29, 2016 it was announced that Larson was one of 683 personalities to be invited as a new member by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

In 2017, press reports said Brie Larson would play the lead role in a film about the American suffragette and first female presidential candidate in 1872, Victoria Woodhull , for Amazon Studios . In March 2019 the film was still listed as "in development". In March 2019 it was announced that Larson had signed a contract with Apple for a drama series. The series is to be based on the experiences of the CIA undercover agent Amaryllis Fox and her memoir Life Undercover: As an agent at the CIA , Larson is to play the main role as well as act as executive producer .

Filmmaker

Parallel to her acting career, Larson also appears as a director and screenwriter of short films . In 2011, she wrote and directed the four-minute tragicomedy Weighting with Dustin Bowser . That same year, Larson co-wrote and directed The Arm with Jessie Ennis and Sarah Ramos . The screenplay for the seven-minute tragicomedy about teenagers and their relationship to SMS communication was made during a three-hour bus ride from Dallas to Austin . The $ 800 production was turned off within three days with the help of family members and friends. In 2012, The Arm was featured in the Sundance Film Festival competition , where it received an Honorable Mention for its comedic narrative style. Larson made her feature film debut as a director in 2017 with the comedy Unicorn Store , in which she also took on the lead role. She plays a disaffected art student who is fascinated by unicorns. Larson auditioned for the role back in 2012, when the film was to be directed by Miguel Arteta based on an original screenplay by Samantha McIntyre , but lost it to Rebel Wilson . Due to scheduling difficulties, however, the film did not materialize at the time, so the producers finally turned to Larson again, this time with the offer to also direct. Netflix took the film into its program on April 5, 2019.

music

In 2003, Brie Larson started promoting her own songs on her website and was already planning to release an album. Her first song released on the internet was Go , which was later renamed Go, Goodbye and re-recorded for her first album. The song was about "two great people who just don't fit together," and it brought her to a recording deal with Invisible Girl at Casablanca Records , a Universal Records brand , without the label's boss, Tommy Mottola, having met her personally would have.

Both songs were co-written with Michael Binikos and Craig Bartock, who at the time did not believe that Brie could do this himself. Later that year she released another song, Not a Freak, as a self-made music video that was available for purchase online. In the late spring of 2004, Brie had to remove all tracks from her website due to the terms of her label contract and started working on her first album.

In October 2004 she released her first single She Said from her debut album on her website. In addition to She Said , she sang two other songs with Ugly and Loser In Me . A music video for She Said , produced under the direction of Chris Applebaum, was shot at the end of 2004, was available for purchase in the American iTunes Store from December 2004 and was released on CD on January 11, 2005 .

On April 4, 2005, the video was featured on MTV's TRL show and reached number 31 on the American Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. In the summer of 2005, Brie Larson toured the US with Jesse McCartney and performed at a concert for KISS FM . After her single had lost places in the charts, her label released the DVD Finally Out of PE - The DVD on May 24, 2005 with bonus material such as making of the video and all AOL sessions. The album Finally Out of PE was released on October 18, 2005 and sold 3,500 times in the US.

Larson released another single on June 27, 2005 called Life After You .

Brie Larson co-wrote the song Coming Around for the soundtrack for the film Owls - Little Friends in Great Danger and also recorded it.

On March 1, 2006, Larson sang several new songs in the Viper Room in Los Angeles , including Dear Universe , Powershift , Stilts and the Titanic and Superstition , as well as the song Falling Into History, written together with Avril Lavigne , and Closer to Fine , a cover version of the original of the Indigo Girls . In the summer of 2006, Larson published Stilts and the Titanic on their Myspace page.

There are no official statements as to whether the songs listed in the Viper Room will be released. In December 2006, Brie Larson recorded her version of the Beatles classic A Day in the Life and posted the song on MySpace.

With the band Metric she played Black Sheep for the film Scott Pilgrim against the rest of the world and started in 2010 with her own indie record label Big Brass Stacks .

Discography

Albums
  • 2005: Finally Out Of PE
Singles
  • 2005: She Said
  • 2005: Life After You

Filmography (selection)

actress

Filmmaker

  • 2011: Weighting (short film) - Written and directed with Dustin Bowser
  • 2012: The Arm (short film) - Written and directed together with Sarah Ramos and Jessie Ennis
  • 2017: Unicorn Store - direction and production

Awards

Web links

Commons : Brie Larson  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Ross A. Lincoln: Brie Larson (Finally) Confirmed As Captain Marvel - Comic-Con . In: Deadline.com . July 23, 2016. Accessed July 23, 2016.
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  4. ↑ Emma Thrower: Tom Hiddleston, Emma Watson, Idris Elba, John Boyega and more join the Academy In: empireonline.com, June 30, 2016.
  5. ^ Information from Ulrike Helmer Verlag on the film, March 2017.
  6. ↑ Manuel Berger:Victoria Woodhull : Brie Larson is the first woman to run for the US presidency in the biopic. Kino-News, March 23, 2017.
  7. ↑ Mike Fleming Jr, Mike Fleming Jr: Brie Larson To Play First Female White House Candidate Victoria Woodhull In Amazon Film. In: Deadline. March 22, 2017, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Amaryllis Fox: Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA . Ebury Press, London 2019, ISBN 978-1-78503-912-6 (English).
  9. ↑ Amaryllis Fox: Life Undercover: As an agent with the CIA . hanserblau, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26422-9 .
  10. ↑ Joe Otterson, Joe Otterson: Brie Larson to Star in, Produce Straight-to-Series Drama at Apple. In: Variety. March 6, 2019, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The Road to Sundance: The Arm, directed by Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos & Jessie Ennis at allaboutindiefilmmaking.com, January 11, 2012 (accessed August 18, 2013).
  12. ↑ Bory's Kit: Brie Larson to Make Directorial Debut With 'Unicorn Store' Comedy (Exclusive). In: The Hollywood Reporter. August 8, 2016, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Mike Fleming Jr: Brie Larson & Lynette Howell Taylor Set Two Films At Netflix; Larson To Next Star In 'Lady Business'. In: Deadline. January 31, 2019, accessed March 8, 2019 .
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  22. ↑ Brie Larson: Brie Larson. Coming soon. Debut album Coming 2005. Archived from the original on October 9, 2004 ; Retrieved July 19, 2011 (English).
  23. ↑ Chris Applebaum: Chris Applebaum - Credits. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 28, 2013 ; accessed on April 10, 2019 (English).
  24. ^ Brie Larson: Brie Larson Music. Archived from the original on December 4, 2004 ; accessed on July 31, 2011 .
  25. ↑ Tommy2.net Blog Archive Daily News. December 29, 2004, accessed July 31, 2011 .
  26. ↑ Amazon.com: Amazon.com: She Said: Brie Larson: Music. In: Amazon US website. Retrieved July 31, 2011 .
  27. ↑ Roger Friedman: Mariah's Up, So Where's Tommy? In: Fox News . January 4, 2006, accessed July 31, 2011 .
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  30. ↑ Fred Topel: Brandon Routh on Scott Pilgrim. (No longer available online.) August 8, 2010, archived from the original on October 15, 2013 ; accessed on March 9, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Larson, Brie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Desaulniers, Brianne Sidonie (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress, singer, songwriter and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Sacramento , California, United States