Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers, known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress, screenwriter,
director, poet, singer-songwriter and musician.
She is best known for her film roles in Sleepover, Remember the Daze, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,
21 Jump Street, and Short Term 12.
She is also known for her roles in TV such as United States of Tara and Community.
Her album Finally Out of P.E.
was released in October 2005 and her song "Hope Has Wings" was released as a music video
on the Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus DVD.
Background Larson was born in Sacramento, California.
Her parents were chiropractors who ran a practice together.
They separated during her childhood, and she moved to Los Angeles, along with her younger
sister and mother.
Growing up, Larson's first language was French.
For her stage name, she took the surname of one of her great-grandmothers, "Larson".
Acting career Larson's first job was performing in sketches
on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Soon after, she was cast in the television series Schimmel, which never aired because
its star, Robert Schimmel, was diagnosed with cancer shortly before filming was to begin.
After it was "on hold" for ten months, FOX canceled the show.
Larson later auditioned for a new show for The WB called In Your Dreams, and landed the
role of Bob Saget's character's younger daughter, Emily.
The show was selected for the 2001–02 fall season, and was renamed Raising Dad.
It was then canceled after 27 episodes.
Larson was also cast in the pilot for the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith, but she and some
of the other cast members were dropped after the unaired pilot.
In 2003 she starred alongside Beverly Mitchell on the DCOM Hit "Right On Track" that at the
time was the most watched DCOM.
In July 2004, she co-starred with a large cast of teen actors in the film Sleepover.
She also had a small role in the movie 13 Going on 30.
Larson also appeared in the film Hoot, opposite actors Logan Lerman and Cody Linley.
The film opened on May 5, 2006.
Larson's voice is also featured in the movie Farce of the Penguins as a teenage penguin.
She played Angie in the 2007 comedy/drama Remember the Daze.
Larson appeared in the 2008 short film The Babysitter, written and directed by David
H. Steinberg and co-starring Josh Cooke, Molly Hagan, and John Kapelos.
She appeared in an episode of Ghost Whisperer in January 2008.
She also has a role as Kate in the 2008 film, Tanner Hall, directed by Francesca Gregorini
and Tatiana von Fürstenberg.
Larson played the character Kate Gregson on the Showtime series United States of Tara.
The show premièred on January 18, 2009 and was canceled on May 23, 2011 with its final
episode airing on June 20, 2011.
In 2012, Larson appeared as Molly in the film adaptation of the popular 1980s TV show 21
Jump Street, co-starring with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill.
In 2013, she guest-starred as Rachel in an episode of Community titled "Herstory of Dance",
and again in the episode "Analysis of Cork-Based Networking" the following year.
In 2013, she also starred in Short Term 12.
She has appeared as guest in Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show numerous times in 2010 and
2011.
Music career Larson has launched a career as a musician,
singer and songwriter, and after releasing her debut album in a major record label in
2005, and has been performing in live concerts throughout the United States since then.
A second album came to production and was completed but never released.
Most recently, Larson revealed plans to release an EP, but that also never reached the public.
She did not give up on her career as a musician, but it is not known when she will release
new songs.
Her last public appearance as a singer was in 2010, when she performed "Black Sheep",
along with the band Metric in the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
Her interest in being a singer started in early 2003, when she began to promote her
songs through her personal website and was already showing interest in releasing an album.
The first leaked was "Go Goodbye", a song about "two great people who just aren't great
together", in her own words and along with "Invisible Girl", were the tracks that led
Larson to sign a record deal some time after with Casablanca Records, an Universal Records
imprint.
Both songs were produced and written with the help of Michael Binikos and Craig Bartock.
In 2003, she leaked another track, "Not a Freak" and this time there was even a music
video for it, which was available for purchase online.
In late spring of 2004, she removed all the songs on her website due to Casablanca's contract
restrictions and was in the process of recording new songs for her first album.
In October of that same year, her willingness to release an album was coming closer and
"She Said", the first single from her yet-to-be-released debut album at that time was available to
listen via her official website gaining an official release in iTunes in December and
was sent to radios across the country in the following month.
Despite having been the 99th best-selling CD single in the country in 2005, according
to SoundScan and peaking at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 Single Sales, the song failed
to reach the Top 40 of the most played songs in the country, receiving low airplay.
She also recorded live performances for AOL Sessions on October 11, 2004.
Her only released album, Finally Out of P.E., went on sale in late 2005 and sold 3,500 copies
in United States.
Before its release, her record label released a DVD featuring "She Said" music video, the
making of it and her AOL Sessions performances.
The entire album was focused in teenage audiences and that became clear while she was playing
in Teen People's Rock in Shop Tour, went on tour with Jesse McCartney and received a lot
of airplay from children-oriented radios like Radio Disney and Radio KOL.
The music video for "She Said", directed by Chris Applebaum, showed a story about a bored
fast food restaurant worker who was aiming to sing and, that way, "finding herself".
She also sang "Hope Has Wings", the song from the credits of the movie Barbie and the Magic
of Pegasus.
A music video for the song appears as a bonus feature on the movie's DVD.
In 2006, she recorded a song slightly different from her previous works for the soundtrack
of the Hoot movie, "Coming Around", co-written with Jacques Brautbar and Rami Perlman, vocalist
and guitarist of a Los Angeles-based independent band.
On March 1, 2006, Larson performed an acoustic set of new songs at L.A.'s famous Viper Room.
The songs played were "Dear Universe", "Powershift", "Stilts and the Titanic", "Superstition",
a cover of Indigo Girls' "Closer to Fine" and "Falling Into History", a track from her
album.
From the new songs, the only one to be leaked in a studio recording was "Stilts and the
Titanic", produced and co-written by Binikos.
The song was made available to listen and download as a demo version in Larson's Official
Myspace in the summer 2006.
On October 22, 2008 she announced to fans in a blog published in her official Myspace
page that she will be recording a 5 track EP with new material and will provide backing
vocals for artist Caitlin Crosby's latest album.
The EP was to include a re-recorded version of Ugly and four new songs: "Dear Universe",
"Sharpen My Nails", "Arielle", and "If All Goes Well".
Filmography Film
Television Discography
Album Finally Out of P.E.
Released: October 18, 2005 U.S. sales: 3,500
Singles 2005: "She Said"
2005: "Life After You" See also
References
External links Official website
Brie Larson on Myspace Brie Larson at the Internet Movie Database
The Babysitter Brie Larson on Blogger