Brie Larson Trivia | 40 facts about the actress

Brie Larson, is an American actress, who is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and an Emmy Award.

Let’s find out more about her!

1. Besides acting, she is also a professional singer.
2. To prepare for her role as Ma in Room (2015), she stayed at home for a whole month and went on a strict diet, to get an understanding of what Ma and Jack were going through.
3. Has acted since she was seven years old.
4. However, she considered quitting acting several times as she found the film business to be too difficult and was unable to get the roles she wanted. She pursued careers in photography, interior design and animal training, but ultimately decided to stick with acting.
5. Suffers from a severe allergy to cats, a condition that plagued her somewhat during the Captain Marvel (2019) production shoot.
6. When Larson presented the Best Actor Oscar to Casey Affleck for his work in Manchester by thesea (2016) at the 2017 Oscars (the previously year’s Best Actress always presents the current year’s Best Actor awards and vice versa) she politely handed him the award but did not clap or cheer for his win and looked unhappy about it.
7. Brie Larson later confirmed rumors that she was un-celebratory over Affleck’s win due to his real life history of sexual harassment accusations and settled lawsuits, telling an interviewer that “what I did on stage speaks for itself” and that she would not discuss the matter any further.
8. Is good friends with Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and Amy Schumer.
9. Is a huge fan of the Super Mario Bros video games.
10. She is an avid gamer.
11. She is a big fan of the Metroid game series and has expressed interest in playing the main character Samus Aran in a possible movie adaption.
12. She considers herself to be an introvert.
13. She has asthma.
14. For her movie “Captain Marvel”, she insisted on having ankle-length body-armor as her character’s primary costume; according to Larson, “I just couldn’t see myself strolling around in a bathing suit for two hours and change” (referring to Carol Danvers’s red Kree uniform and black Warbird outfit, both of which bared her legs).
15. In May 2005, she went on tour with Jesse McCartney.
16. First job was performing in sketches on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992).
17. Soon after, was cast in the television series, Schimmel (2000), which was announced in 2000 but never aired.
18. Right before filming, Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with cancer. After being “on hold” for six months, Fox canceled the show.
19. Became close friends with Shailene Woodley during the filming of The Spectacular Now (2013).
20. Brie Larson was having dinner at Woodley’s rented apartment when she got the call offering her the lead role in Short Term 12 (2013).
21. She is a huge fan of Star Wars, so much that she wishes to appear somewhere in the franchise.
22. Is one of 14 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics’ Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance.
23. Daughter of Heather (Edwards) and Sylvain Desaulniers.
24. Her paternal grandparents were Aurèle Desaulniers and Gabrielle Marie-Therese (Chatelain) Desaulniers (1931-2015), who were French-Canadians from Winnipeg. Her mother’s family is based in California. Her mother has English, Swedish, German, Welsh, and Scottish ancestry. Brie’s stage surname, “Larson”, is after her matrilineal great-grandmother, Elva Josephine Larson.
25. Sang “Coming Around” in her movie Hoot (2006).
26. She has starred in 4 movies with Samuel L Jackson which include, Kong: Skull Island (2017), Unicorn Store (2017), Captain Marvel (2019), Avengers Endgame (2019). Also meaning they have both been in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Monsterverse.
27. Made home movies as a child, casting her cousins and making sets in her garage.
28. Brie’s go-to karaoke song is Usher’s “Burn” from the album “Confessions” (2004).
29. (March 2016-January 2019) was engaged to Alex Greenwald after he proposed to her shortly after she won her Academy Award.
30. Screen-tested for the role of Sarah Connor in Terminator: Genisis (2015), but didn’t get the role because the casting director said they didn’t think she could carry a gun; they didn’t ask her to hold a gun during the audition.
31. Was the 146th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Room (2015) at The Oscars (2016).
32. Auditioned for the role of Penny in The Big Bang Theory (2007), but was told she was too young for the part.
33. On July 2, 2020, she started her own YouTube channel.
34. Was in a relationship with Alex Greenwald, vocalist with rock band Phantom Planet, (2013-2019).
35. After a considerable period of frustration correcting people who consistently mispronounced her birth name “Desaulniers”, Brie changed it to Larson after her Kirsten Larson doll that she owned as a youngster.
36. Doesn’t like auditioning for horror movies because you have to mime and react a lot.
37. Auditioned for the role of Katniss Everdeen in Hunger Games (2012).
38. Her first gig was a commercial parody sketch “Malibu Mudslide Barbie” for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in late 1996 at age 7. The sketch had her pouring mud on top of Barbie dolls as their heads popped off. She appeared in several more commercial parodies on Leno in the following years, including “Roadkill Easy Bake Oven” in 1998, and in other Leno show sketches, including one playing a girl scout.
39. Moved to Los Angeles, California, right before her ninth birthday (1998).
40. Auditioned for the role of Casey Newton in A World Beyond (2015).