You may know Brie Larson today as Captain Marvel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but the Academy Award-winning actress didn't win her Oscar by becoming a superhero.
In honor of her joining The Super Mario Galaxy movie, here are 9 movies you may not know Brie Larson took part in, and where to watch them!
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
If Ramona Flowers had seven powerful exes, Scott Pilgrim had a famous, cold-hearted ex-girlfriend, the lead singer of the band, The Clash at Demonhead. Envy Adams was played by Brie Larson in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and reprised her role by voicing Envy in the animated series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
Purchase or Rent: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
Trainwreck (2015)
Monogamy is not realistic. At least that's the mindset that Amy stuck with throughout adulthood ever since her father drilled it into her head. But her sister, Kim, whom Brie Larson played in Trainwreck, chose to believe otherwise. Though the successful sports doctor, Aaron Conners, was the only man who proved Amy wrong about relationships.
Streaming Platforms: Peacock
21 Jump Street (2012)
21 Jump Street follows cops Schmidt and Jenko, who had to go undercover as high school students so they could shut down a dangerous drug ring. Little did both cops know, they would end up falling for one of the most popular girls, Molly Tracey, who was played by Brie Larson.
Streaming Platforms: Paramount+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video
Don Jon (2013)
Compared to the rest of the movies on this list, Brie Larson doesn't play the main character in Don Jon. Instead, she's Monica, a quiet member of Don Jon's (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) family who spends most of her screen time on her phone before she speaks up in a pivotal scene.
Shockingly, Larson admitted on the Ellen DeGeneres Show that she forgot she even starred in the movie.
Purchase or Rent: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
Free Fire (2016)
Brie Larson is Justine, who found herself caught in the crossfire when a black-market arms deal went outrageously wrong. The dark comedy thriller starred Larson alongside co-stars Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer as they struggle to survive the prolonged gunfight.
Purchase or Rent: Amazon Prime Video
Hoot (2006)
Hoot follows Roy Eberhardt, who befriends Beatrice (Brie Larson) and her brother. Together, the siblings showed Roy their secret hideaway, where they secretly take care of a flock of wild owls. The movie escalates when they learn that a restaurant was about to be built where the owls live. The three make it their mission to save the birds.
Purchase or Rent: Apple TV
Room (2015)
Brie Larson won her first Oscar after her heartbreaking performance in Room, where she plays a mother who must protect her five-year-old son as the two of them are held captive in a single room for years. Based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue, Room portrays the story of how this mother and son duo experience the outside world after successfully escaping their captive state.
Purchase or Rent: Amazon Prime Video
Basmati Blues (2017)
One of Brie Larson's more controversial roles is playing the sheltered American scientist in Basmati Blues, who travels to India under the impression that her company's genetically modified rice could save them time and resources, only to discover it will destroy the local farmers she once thought she was helping through the project.
Streaming Platforms: Amazon Prime Video
The Glass Castle (2017)
The Glass Castle sees Brie sporting a successful adult writer, Jeannette Walls, who wrote the memoir of the same name. She reconciles with her tragic backstory of growing up in a chaotic, poverty-stricken childhood with unstable parents whose life decisions led their children astray.
Streaming Platforms: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
Unicorn Store (2019)
Unicorn Store is for every freelancer and corporate hater who yearns to be an artist outside the workplace.
Kit, played by Brie, is a young woman who struggles to conform to the corporate world. After falling out of art school and taking a boring office job, Kit rediscovers her true self by reconnecting with her childhood imagination that led her to fulfill her lifelong dream of adopting a unicorn.
Streaming Platforms: Netflix
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