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Brie Larson won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ma in the 2015 drama Room, based on Emma Donoghue's novel. She also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA in the same category for the role.
Brie Larson released the album Finally Out of P.E. in 2005 on Casablanca Records, signed through Tommy Mottola. The album sold only 3,500 copies. One single, "She Said", peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot Single Sales chart.
Brie Larson adopted the surname Larson from her Swedish great-grandmother and from an American Girl doll named Kirsten Larson that she received as a child. Her birth surname, Desaulniers, was difficult for American casting agents to pronounce.
Brie Larson plays Carol Danvers, also known as Captain Marvel, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Captain Marvel (2019) was Marvel Studios' first female-led superhero film and grossed over one billion dollars worldwide. She also appeared in Avengers: Endgame, which grossed $2.79 billion worldwide.
Brie Larson co-founded the Time's Up initiative in 2018 with three hundred women in Hollywood to protect workers from harassment and discrimination. She became one of the first actors to include an inclusion rider in her contracts and announced a twenty-percent quota for underrepresented journalists at the Sundance and Toronto International Film Festivals.
Brie Larson's feature film directorial debut was the comedy-drama Unicorn Store (2017), in which she also starred as a disillusioned art student. It premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and was later picked up by Netflix for digital distribution in 2019.