Profile | プロフィール
Born / 生年月日
October 1, 1989 | Sacramento, California, USA
Age / 年齢
35 years old (as of 2025)
Occupation / 職業
Actress, Director, Producer, Singer-Songwriter
女優、映画監督、プロデューサー、シンガーソングライター
Nationality / 国籍
American (アメリカ)
Biography | 経歴
[English] Brie Larson is one of the most formally accomplished and culturally significant performers in contemporary American cinema. Her career is defined by a rare fusion of psychological precision and emotional transparency—qualities that earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her long-standing collaboration with director Destin Daniel Cretton remains one of the most creatively productive partnerships in recent independent film history. From the intimate intensity of Short Term 12 (2013) to her historic, billion-dollar turn as the MCU’s first solo female lead in Captain Marvel (2019), Larson has consistently expanded the boundaries of representation. Her journey from Sacramento to the height of global stardom constitutes a landmark record of artistic development.
[日本語] ブリー・ラーソンは、今日のアメリカ映画界において最も形式的に完成され、かつ文化的に重要な位置を占める女優の一人です。そのキャリアは、心理的な精緻さと感情の透明性という稀有な融合によって形作られており、それが彼女にアカデミー賞主演女優賞をもたらしました。デスティン・ダニエル・クレットン監督との長年にわたる協力関係は、近年の独立系映画史上、最も創造的で生産的なパートナーシップの一つです。極限の親密さを描いた『ショート・ターム12』（2013年）から、MCU初の女性単独主役として11億ドル超の興行収入を記録した『キャプテン・マーベル』（2019年）という文化的マイルストーンに至るまで、彼女は一貫して表現の境界を広げ続けてきました。サクラメントでの幼少期から世界の頂点へと至るその軌跡は、現代の俳優における芸術的成長の最も重要な記録といえるでしょう。
Filmography | 主要出演作品
Feature Films — Selected (主要出演映画)
| Year | Title (English / Japanese) | Role | Director | Awards/Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Short Term 12 / ショート・ターム12 | Grace | Destin Daniel Cretton | Independent Spirit Award Best Female Lead 🏆 / SXSW Grand Jury Prize film 🏆 / Career breakthrough / Group home supervisor / Trauma and compassion |
| 2015 | Room / ルーム | Joy “Ma” Newsome | Lenny Abrahamson | Academy Award Best Actress 🏆 BAFTA Best Actress 🏆 Screen Actors Guild Award Best Actress 🏆 Independent Spirit Award Best Female Lead 🏆 / Jacob Tremblay / Emma Donoghue adaptation / Captivity / Maternal love / Career summit |
| 2016 | The Big Short / マネー・ショート | Evelyn / Mortgage buyer | Adam McKay | Ensemble / Oscar Best Picture film 🏆 |
| 2017 | Kong: Skull Island / キングコング：髑髏島の巨神 | Mason Weaver | Jordan Vogt-Roberts | Tom Hiddleston / Samuel L. Jackson / MonsterVerse franchise / First major blockbuster role |
| 2017 | The Glass Castle / ガラスの城の約束 | Jeannette Walls | Destin Daniel Cretton | Woody Harrelson / Naomi Watts / Memoir adaptation / Cretton collaboration #2 |
| 2017 | Unicorn Store | Kit | Brie Larson (Director) | Samuel L. Jackson / TIFF 2017 premiere / Netflix 2019 / Directorial debut feature |
| 2019 | Just Mercy / ジャスト・マーシー 正義の行方 | Eva Ansley | Destin Daniel Cretton | Michael B. Jordan / Jamie Foxx / Equal Justice Initiative / Cretton collaboration #3 |
| 2019 | Captain Marvel / キャプテン・マーベル | Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel | Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck | $1.128 billion worldwide 🌍 / First MCU solo female superhero film / Jude Law / Ben Mendelsohn / Samuel L. Jackson / MCU Phase 3 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame / アベンジャーズ：エンドゲーム | Captain Marvel | Anthony & Joe Russo | $2.799 billion worldwide 🌍 / Ensemble / Most commercially successful film in career / MCU culmination |
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings / シャン・チー | N/A (cameo / MCU tie-in) | Destin Daniel Cretton | Cretton collaboration / MCU ecosystem |
| 2023 | The Marvels / ザ・マーベルズ | Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel | Nia DaCosta | Teyonah Parris / Iman Vellani / Female superhero ensemble / MCU Phase 5 |
As Director (監督作品)
| Year | Title | Awards/Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Unicorn Store | TIFF 2017 world premiere / Netflix release 2019 / Feature directorial debut |
Television — Selected (テレビ — 主要出演)
| Year | Title | Network | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010–14 | Raising Hope | Fox | Jimmy’s love interest / Comedy series / Broad television audience introduction |
Awards & Recognition | 受賞歴
Academy Awards (アカデミー賞)
Winner: 1 🏆
- Best Actress – Room (2016) 🏆
BAFTA Awards
Winner: 1 🏆
- Best Actress in a Leading Role – Room (2016) 🏆
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Winner: 1 🏆
- Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role – Room (2016) 🏆
Independent Spirit Awards
Winner: 2 🏆
- Best Female Lead – Short Term 12 (2014) 🏆
- Best Female Lead – Room (2016) 🏆
Critics’ Choice Awards
Winner: 1 🏆
- Best Actress – Room (2016) 🏆
Saturn Awards
Nominated:
- Best Actress – Captain Marvel (2019) 🌟
- Best Actress – The Marvels (2024) 🌟
Other Honours
- MTV Movie Awards — Best Fight – Avengers: Endgame (2019) 🏆 (shared with the ensemble)
- Two-time Independent Spirit Award winner—one of the very few performers to have won the award twice for consecutive major dramatic roles
- Named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People (2019)
- One of Forbes’ most commercially powerful actresses following the Captain Marvel billion-dollar opening
Room as the Definitive Performance
- The specific formal achievement of the Room performance—the management of a character who must embody simultaneously the extraordinary psychological damage of seven years of captivity, the sustained maternal love that has kept both herself and her son alive, and the specific quality of disorientation that the return to the world outside produces—required a level of psychological and physical preparation that Larson has spoken about as the most demanding and most transformative experience of her professional career
- The specific quality of the performance in the film’s second half—after the escape, when Joy must navigate a world that has continued without her while simultaneously supporting the son for whom this world is entirely new—is the most formally complex dimension of the role, requiring the management of multiple simultaneous emotional registers (relief, grief, gratitude, terror, love, rage) in a way that maintains the coherence of the character’s psychological formation rather than decomposing it into separate expressive episodes
- The Academy Award, the BAFTA, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Independent Spirit Award—four of the five most significant institutional recognitions available to the American screen actress, all in a single year—constitute a consensus of recognition essentially without parallel in recent American acting history for a performer at the specific career stage at which Larson received them
Box Office Achievements | 興行成績
| Film | Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|
| Avengers: Endgame (2019) | $2.799 billion |
| Captain Marvel (2019) | $1.128 billion |
| Kong: Skull Island (2017) | $566.7 million |
| The Big Short (2015) | $133.4 million |
| The Marvels (2023) | $206.1 million |
| Room (2015) | $35.4 million |
Career worldwide box office: Over $5 billion
