Brie Larson
Brie Larson
Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers, known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress and singer. Born in Sacramento, California, Larson was home-schooled before she studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater. She began her acting career in television, appearing as a regular on the 2001 sitcom Raising Dad, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth1 October 1989
CitySacramento, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.
When what you do is play characters, every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends. I wanted to be myself, and it slowly turned into not being me at all, so I just didn't really see the point. If the music actually happens, at some point, it will be because some underground following happened, or some little elves heard it and were leaking it.
I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.
I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.
For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.
Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.
I would go into periods of depression in my life, and I would feel so alone. I felt that there was no one who understood how I felt, either on TV or in music, and writing really helped me change what I thought and how I felt about myself.
Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.
Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.
Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some people are aware of it.
Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.
I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.
For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.
I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated.