Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers was born on October 1, 1989, in Sacramento, California, to Heather (née Edwards) and Sylvain Desaulniers. Her parents were homeopathic chiropractors who ran a practice together. They have another daughter, Milaine. Her father is Franco-Manitoban; in her childhood, French was Larson’s first language. She holds dual citizenship of Canada and the United States. She was mostly home-schooled, which she believed allowed her to explore innovative and abstract experiences.
Describing her early life, Larson has said she was “straight-laced and square”, and that she shared a close bond with her mother but was shy and had social anxiety. During the summer, she would write and direct her own home movies in which she cast her cousins and filmed in her garage. At age six, she expressed interest in becoming an actress, later remarking that the “creative arts was just something that was always in me”. That same year, she auditioned for a training program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where she became the youngest student admitted.
Larson experienced trauma at age seven due to her parents’ divorce. She had a dysfunctional relationship with her father, saying: “As a kid I tried to understand him and understand the situation. But he didn’t do himself any favors. I don’t think he ever really wanted to be a parent.”
Soon after their separation, Heather relocated to Los Angeles with her two daughters to fulfill Larson’s acting ambition. They had limited financial means and lived in a small apartment near Hollywood studio lots at Burbank. Larson described the experience, “We had a crappy one-room apartment where the bed came out of the wall and we each had three articles of clothing.” Even so, she has recounted fond memories of this period and credits her mother for doing the best she could for them.
As her last name was difficult to pronounce, she adopted the stage name Larson from her Swedish great-grandmother, as well as an American Girl doll named Kirsten Larson that she received as a child. Her first job was performing a commercial parody for Barbie, named “Malibu Mudslide Barbie”, in a 1998 episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She subsequently took on guest roles in several television series, including Touched by an Angel and Popular. In 2000, she was cast in the Fox sitcom Schimmel, which was canceled before airing when its star, Robert Schimmel, was diagnosed with cancer.
Career
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 in the 2001 sitcom Raising Dad and briefly dabbled with a music career, releasing the album Finally Out of P.E. in 2005. Larson subsequently played 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).
Her breakthrough came with a leading role in the acclaimed independent drama Short Term 12 (2013), and she continued to take on supporting parts in the romance The Spectacular Now (2013) and the comedy Trainwreck (2015). For playing a kidnapping victim in the drama Room (2015), Larson won the Academy Award for Best Actress. The 2017 adventure film Kong: Skull Island marked her first big-budget release, after which she starred as Captain Marvel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Captain Marvel (2019).
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. A gender equality activist and an advocate for sexual assault survivors, Larson is vocal about social and political issues
Larson was featured by Forbes in their 30 Under 30 list of 2016 and was included by People in their annual beauty list in 2016 and 2019. In 2018, she was named among the best American actors under 30 by IndieWire.In 2019, Madame Tussauds New York unveiled a wax statue of Larson as Captain Marvel. In the same year, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Personal Life
Larson doesn’t like to divulge much about her personal life and refuses to answer questions in interviews that make her uncomfortable. On her desire to be private, she has said she fears being judged for her flaws and that the privacy allows her to play a wide variety of roles without being typecast.
Larson began dating Alex Greenwald, lead singer of the band Phantom Planet, in 2013, and they were engaged from 2016 to 2019.They had lived together in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. She had credited Greenwald for creating a safe space for her and for empowering her to take risks in her work.
Since 2019, Larson was in a relationship with actor-filmmaker Elijah Allan-Blitz. In 2023, she stated that she was single, indicating that she and Allan-Blitz had broken-up.
Describing Larson’s off-screen persona, Holly Millea of Elle wrote in 2016 that she “carries herself like an athlete, lean and solid, surefooted [and] yet her energy is warm and familial, literally embracing”.[13] The writer Anne Helen Petersen finds her to be “incredibly warm” and adds that she is “a serious nerd, with the endlessly tunneling knowledge of a homeschooler”. Jennifer Dickison of Porter states that Larson’s “fully formed” personality made it difficult to categorize her into a conventional slot.
Larson has said she is interested in films that illustrate the “human condition” and which “make people feel more connected to themselves than the rest of the world”. She is drawn to roles that differ from her own personality and which involve themes of social activism.
Larson maintains an active social media presence and uses it as a platform to share opinions and posts that she writes herself. In 2020, she started her own YouTube channel. She also hosted a podcast named Learning Lots alongside actress Jessie Ennis.
Net Worth
33-year old Brie Larson has a net worth of $25 million.
After appearing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster “Captain Marvel, Brie Larson earned a total of $5 million. Her salary for Avengers: Endgame was never revealed, but actors typically received an increased amount based on the number of times they reprise their roles within the MCU.
Larson gets busy with Real Estate as in 2019, it was reported that Brie Lawson had made two notable investments in real estate. She purchased one property in Malibu, California for $3.4 million. She also made another purchase that year, picking up a property in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley for $1.6 million. She also sold a property in the trendy and artsy Laurel Canyon area for $2.17 million on which she experienced a loss of $80,000 as she originally purchased the house back in 2016 for $2.25 million.
In 2020, Brie Larson cashed in on another property, selling her longtime home in Studio City for a cool $1.4 million. This time, she most certainly made a profit on the real estate deal, as she originally purchased the property back in 2009 for $885,000. Not only that, but it seems that there was a bidding war for Larson’s house, as she originally listed it for $1.29 million before it sold for $1.4 million.
Who is Brie Larson in a relationship with?
I don’t have a partner. I don’t have a plan,’ she told readers. Brie and Elijah began dating in 2019, following the end of her six-year relationship to ex-fiancé to Alex Greenwald, the lead singer of the band Phantom Planet.
American actress Brie Larson seemingly announced that she is single again, confirming her split with boyfriend Elijah Allan-Blitz. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, published on March 23, 2023, the 33-year-old star shared the next steps in her life, adding that she is just going with the flow.
Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress,screenwriter, director, poet, singer-songwriter, and musician. Larson plays the role of Captain Marvel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Larson is the recipient of various accolades, including 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.
