Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#571
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Brie Larson works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Brie Larson appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Brie. Disney 100: Remember That is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for horror, comedy, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with JT Mollner, Aaron Horvath, Louis Leterrier and others, Brie Larson helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Disney 100: Remember That (2023) as Self · Avengers: Endgame (2019) as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel · The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) as Rosalina (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #571 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
2004–2027
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Disney 100: Remember That
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Disney 100: Remember That
Most frequent director
Destin Daniel Cretton
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Destin Daniel Cretton
Most common genre
Comedy
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.8
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Just Mercy, Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 18 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. 13 Going on 30, Sleepover.
Most productive era
2010s
18 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.69 films | — |
| Action | — | 7.16 films | 6.93 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.02 films | 7.21 film |
| Comedy | 6.42 films | 6.37 films | 8.31 film |
| Crime | — | 6.55 films | 7.21 film |
| Romance | 6.81 film | 6.54 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
200413 Going on 30
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Six Chick.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Skeletons
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
27 of 27 films
as Ma
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson
as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Grace Howard
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
as Rosalina (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Self
Disney 100: Remember That (2023)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Brie Larson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ma
Room (2015)
Performance score8.5
Room asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ma is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Performance score8.2
Avengers: Endgame asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Grace Howard
Short Term 12 (2013)
Performance score8.2
Short Term 12 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Grace Howard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Self
Start here. Disney 100: Remember That is the clearest statement of what Brie Larson does — accessible, 36 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Brie at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Short Term 12 (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Disney 100: Remember That — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Room (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Short Term 12 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Room — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
Keeps the adventure register of Avengers: Endgame but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Destin Daniel Cretton
Director
4 films together
Notably Just Mercy
Joe Nussbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Sleepover
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably Greenberg
Edgar Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Phil Lord
Director
1 film together
Notably 21 Jump Street
James Ponsoldt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Spectacular Now
Rupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gambler
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably Trainwreck
Joe Swanberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Digging for Fire
Lenny Abrahamson
Director
1 film together
Notably Room
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Director
1 film together
Notably Kong: Skull Island
Ben Wheatley
Director
1 film together
Notably Free Fire
Scott Aukerman
Director
1 film together
Notably Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Ryan Fleck
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Marvel
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably Avengers: Endgame
Nia DaCosta
Director
1 film together
Notably The Marvels
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast X
Aaron Horvath
Director
1 film together
Notably The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
JT Mollner
Director
1 film together
Notably Skeletons
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Destin Daniel Cretton
Director
4 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Just MercyAnthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Avengers: EndgameAaron Horvath
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Super Mario Galaxy MovieLenny Abrahamson
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RoomEdgar Wright
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scott Pilgrim vs. the WorldLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast XPhil Lord
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
21 Jump StreetRyan Fleck
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain MarvelJames Ponsoldt
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Spectacular NowJordan Vogt-Roberts
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kong: Skull IslandBen Wheatley
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Free FireJoe Nussbaum
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SleepoverRupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GamblerNia DaCosta
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MarvelsScott Aukerman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Between Two Ferns: The MovieNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GreenbergJudd Apatow
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TrainwreckJoe Swanberg
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Digging for FireJT Mollner
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SkeletonsSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Brie Larson has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
23 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
10 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Free Fire
as Justine
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Rosalina (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Avengers: Endgame
as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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