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Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress. She played supporting roles in comedies as a teenager and has since expanded to leading roles in independent films and blockbusters. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. At age six, Larson was the youngest student admitted to a training program at the American Conservatory Theater, and she began her acting career in 1998 with a comedy sketch on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She appeared as a regular on the sitcom Raising Dad (2001–2002). She pursued a music career, releasing the album Finally Out of P.E. (2005). She subsequently had supporting roles in the comedy films Hoot (2006), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and 21 Jump Street (2012), and appeared as a sardonic teenager in the television series United States of Tara (2009–2011). Larson's breakthrough came as a social worker in the independent drama Short Term 12 (2013), along with supporting roles in the coming-of-age romance The Spectacular Now (2013) and the comedy Trainwreck (2015). She gained wider recognition for her performance as a kidnapping victim in the drama Room (2015), for which she received the Academy Award for Best Actress. She ventured into blockbusters with the monster film Kong: Skull Island (2017) and by starring as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Captain Marvel (2019). Larson returned to television to star in the miniseries Lessons in Chemistry (2023), for which she earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Larson has co-written and co-directed two short films and made her feature film directorial debut with the independent comedy-drama Unicorn Store (2017). For producing the virtual reality series The Messy Truth VR Experience (2020), she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Program. A gender equality activist and an advocate for sexual assault survivors, Larson is vocal about social and political issues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brie Larson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress. She played supporting roles in comedies as a teenager and has since expanded to leading roles in independent films and blockbusters. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. At age six, Larson was the youngest student admitted to a training program at the American Conservatory Theater, and she began her acting career in 1998 with a comedy sketch on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She appeared as a regular on the sitcom Raising Dad (2001–2002). She pursued a music career, releasing the album Finally Out of P.E. (2005). She subsequently had supporting roles in the comedy films Hoot (2006), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and 21 Jump Street (2012), and appeared as a sardonic teenager in the television series United States of Tara (2009–2011). Larson's breakthrough came as a social worker in the independent drama Short Term 12 (2013), along with supporting roles in the coming-of-age romance The Spectacular Now (2013) and the comedy Trainwreck (2015). She gained wider recognition for her performance as a kidnapping victim in the drama Room (2015), for which she received the Academy Award for Best Actress. She ventured into blockbusters with the monster film Kong: Skull Island (2017) and by starring as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Captain Marvel (2019). Larson returned to television to star in the miniseries Lessons in Chemistry (2023), for which she earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Larson has co-written and co-directed two short films and made her feature film directorial debut with the independent comedy-drama Unicorn Store (2017). For producing the virtual reality series The Messy Truth VR Experience (2020), she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Program. A gender equality activist and an advocate for sexual assault survivors, Larson is vocal about social and political issues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brie Larson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Graham Norton Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Oscars
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The League
Entertainment Tonight
Touched by an Angel
The Bear
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Dinner Time Live with David Chang
The Jonathan Ross Show
Ms. Marvel
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Marvel Studios Assembled
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
Popular
Ghost Whisperer
Marvel Studios Legends
To Have & to Hold
NTSF:SD:SUV::
Kroll Show
Community
MPower
Avengers: Doomsday
13 Going on 30
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Disney 100: Remember That
Fast Forever
Fast X
Digging for Fire
Marvel Zombies
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Avengers: Endgame
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Don Jon
The Spectacular Now
United States of Tara
Kong: Skull Island
Trainwreck
21 Jump Street
The Gambler
Raising Dad
Free Fire
House Broken
Cry Wolf
Just Mercy
Short Term 12
One Italian Summer
Lessons in Chemistry
Unicorn Store
Captain Marvel
The Marvels
The Glass Castle
Room
Fantastic Fungi
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of The Marvels
Production Credits
Growing Up
Cry Wolf
Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus
Lessons in Chemistry
Room
Unicorn Store
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