Brie Larson

Brie Larson has built an impressive career as one of the most versatile young actresses working today. Larson garnered numerous 2013 and 2014 Best Actress award wins and nominations for her performance in Destin Daniel Cretton's Short Term 12. Her dramatic role as Grace, the director of a foster-care facility, earned her Best Actress wins at the Locarno Film Festival and the Gotham Awards, and a Best Actress nomination at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

The Los Angeles Times labeled Larson the 'it' girl of the 2013 SXSW Film Festival, with four films showing. In addition to Short Term 12, which took home a Grand Jury prize and an Audience Award, Larson had supporting turns in The Spectacular Now, opposite Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller, in which she played the seemingly perfect girlfriend of Teller's character, as well as Don Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, in which she played the cynical/realist sister of Gordon-Levitt's character. Both films were also at the Sundance and SXSW film festivals.

Larson was previously seen in the hugely successful 21 Jump Street, as the love interest to Jonah Hill's character, and received rave reviews for her supporting role in Oren Moverman's Rampart, as the incorrigible, defiant daughter of Woody Harrelson's character, a dirty cop in Los Angeles' Rampart division.

Larson is still widely recognized for her portrayal of Kate, the sarcastic and rebellious daughter of Toni Collette's Tara, in Showtime's breakout drama United States of Tara, which was created by Academy Award®-winning writer Diablo Cody and based on an original idea by Steven Spielberg.

Larson's other notable credits include Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, in which she played the rock star ex-girlfriend of Michael Cera's Scott Pilgrim, and Noah Baumbach's Greenberg, opposite Ben Stiller, as a young temptress flirting with Stiller's character. She has appeared onstage at the prestigious Williamstown Theatre Festival in the role of Emily in Our Town and had a recurring role on the FX cult favorite series The League, as an overly amorous au pair.

In addition to acting, Larson is a writer and director. Her short film, The Arm, won the prize for Best Comedic Storytelling at 2014's Sundance Film Festival. Her other, Weighting, was in competition at 2013's SXSW Film Festival.

A native of Sacramento, Larson started studying drama at the early age of six, as the youngest student ever to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

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