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50 free Brie Larson trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Brie Larson was acting on television before she was ten, released a pop album as a teenager, and spent years in supporting parts before one small independent film changed everything. Within a few years she had an Academy Award for Room and a superhero franchise of her own. This quiz follows the whole journey. There are questions on her childhood and stage name, her early sitcoms and music career, cult favourites like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Short Term 12, her Oscar-winning performance, her years as Captain Marvel, and her work as a director, producer and stage actor. It is written for fans who have followed her from indie dramas to blockbusters, and for anyone curious about the person behind the cape. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up something new even when you miss.
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Q 01What is the real name of Captain Marvel, the pilot turned superhero played by Brie Larson?
Carol Danvers
Carol Danvers is an Air Force pilot who gains cosmic powers. Larson's 2019 debut in the role was the first Marvel Studios film built around a female lead.
Q 02Which child actor played Jack, the young son of Brie Larson's captive mother, in the drama Room?
Jacob Tremblay
Jacob Tremblay and Larson spent time before filming doing the same everyday activities as their characters, so the bond between mother and son would feel real on screen.
Q 03In Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Brie Larson plays which rock singer, the hero's famous ex?
Envy Adams
Envy Adams fronts the band the Clash at Demonhead, and Larson sang her big number herself. She has called the part a turning point in her career.
Q 04What is the name of the cat, secretly an alien Flerken, in Brie Larson's film Captain Marvel?
Goose
Goose is named after a Top Gun character, a nod to the hero's past as a pilot. In the comics the cat is called Chewie, after Chewbacca.
Q 05Brie Larson took her stage surname partly from a childhood doll made by which toy brand?
American Girl
American Girl made Kirsten Larson, a doll she was given as a child. Her real surname was hard to pronounce, and a Swedish great-grandmother had also been a Larson.
Q 06Which language did California-born Brie Larson speak first as a child, before she learned English?
French
French came first because her father is Franco-Manitoban, from the French-speaking community of Manitoba. She holds dual citizenship of Canada and the United States.
Q 07Brie Larson joined which long-running action film franchise in 2023, playing an agent named Tess?
Fast & Furious
Fast & Furious welcomed her in Fast X, the tenth film in the series. She plays the daughter of the shadowy Mr. Nobody, her first major film role since 2019.
Q 08In Lessons in Chemistry, Brie Larson's fired chemist Elizabeth Zott ends up hosting what?
A cooking show
A cooking show called Supper at Six makes Zott a star, and she uses it to teach housewives real science. Larson was also an executive producer and spent two years on the series.
Q 09Brie Larson and which Mean Girls star were once the only artists signed to Casablanca Records?
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan was her only labelmate when a teenage Larson signed with music mogul Tommy Mottola. Larson's one album followed in 2005 and sold only a few thousand copies.
Q 10Which actor joined Brie Larson in Kong: Skull Island, Captain Marvel and her own directorial debut?
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson played an Army colonel on Kong's island and a younger Fury who still has both eyes. In between, he appeared in the comedy she directed herself.
Q 11Brie Larson played student Molly, the love interest of an undercover cop, in which buddy comedy?
21 Jump Street
21 Jump Street paired her with Jonah Hill, whose loose improvising she found hard to match. It grossed over $200 million, her most widely seen film up to then.
Q 12Brie Larson played Kim, the sister of which comedian's character, in the comedy Trainwreck?
Amy Schumer
Amy Schumer wrote the film loosely around her own life, so Larson modeled the part on Schumer's real sister, who worked on the film as an associate producer.
Q 13Which actor played Brie Larson's father in two films, the police drama Rampart and The Glass Castle?
Woody Harrelson
Q 21Brie Larson first filmed scenes as Captain Marvel for which movie, shot before her own solo film?
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame shot her scenes first, though her solo film reached cinemas before it. The writers kept her screen time short, calling her the fresh blood among the original heroes.
Q 22In The Marvels, Brie Larson's hero keeps swapping places with Monica Rambeau and which teenager?
Kamala Khan
Kamala Khan, played by Iman Vellani, is a Jersey City teenager who idolises Captain Marvel. The three heroes trade places whenever they use their powers.
Q 23Which actor plays Yon-Rogg, the mentor who trains Brie Larson's hero in Captain Marvel?
Jude Law
Woody Harrelson was a corrupt cop in the first and a nonconformist parent in the second. One Rampart confrontation went so well that the director reworked the script around the pair.
Q 14What is the job of Mason Weaver, Brie Larson's character in the monster film Kong: Skull Island?
Photojournalist
Photojournalist Mason Weaver joins the expedition as an anti-war photographer. It was Larson's first big-budget release, and she regretted having so few female co-stars.
Q 15Which martial art did Brie Larson study, alongside boxing and wrestling, to play Captain Marvel?
Judo
Judo was part of nine months of training for the role. She also visited Nellis Air Force Base to meet serving personnel before playing a fighter pilot.
Q 16In the sitcom Raising Dad, which comedian played the widowed father of Brie Larson's character?
Bob Saget
Bob Saget led the show, his first series since Full House, with Kat Dennings as Larson's older sister. It ran for a single season on The WB.
Q 17In United States of Tara, which actress played the mother of Brie Larson's sardonic teenager?
Toni Collette
Toni Collette won an Emmy as Tara, a suburban mother with dissociative identity disorder. Larson took over as her daughter after another actress had already filmed the pilot.
Q 18Which comedy-drama, in which she also starred, was Brie Larson's first feature film as a director?
Unicorn Store
Unicorn Store premiered at the Toronto film festival in 2017 and reached Netflix two years later. Larson had auditioned for the lead in 2012 and been turned down.
Q 19Brie Larson appears as a character called the Paradigm in which hugely popular online video game?
Fortnite
Fortnite was one of several side projects during her break from film acting. She also reprised Captain Marvel for attractions at Disneyland Paris and aboard a Disney cruise ship.
Q 20Brie Larson, a longtime Nintendo fan, voices which character in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie?
Rosalina
Rosalina is the adoptive mother of the Lumas, and the film's heroes set out to rescue her. Larson had declared herself a fan of the game Super Mario Galaxy years before.
Jude Law plays the Starforce commander who trains her to control her abilities. He is later revealed as the killer of the scientist whose death she cannot remember.
Q 24At the start of Captain Marvel, Brie Larson's amnesiac hero fights for which alien empire?
Kree
Kree forces know her as Vers, a name taken from what was left of her damaged dog tag. She serves in their war against the shape-shifting Skrulls, who turn out to be refugees.
Q 25Room, the film that won Brie Larson her Oscar, is based on a novel by which Irish-born author?
Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue adapted her own book for the screen. She conceived the story after hearing about a five-year-old boy in the Fritzl captivity case.
Q 26In Room, what name do Brie Larson's character and her son use for the man holding them captive?
Old Nick
Old Nick abducted her seven years before the story begins. He keeps mother and son in a locked shed whose only window is a skylight.
Q 27At the 2017 Oscars, Brie Larson handed Best Actor to which winner but did not applaud him?
Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck had faced sexual harassment accusations, and Larson is an advocate for assault survivors. She hugged him but did not clap, saying later that her action spoke for itself.
Q 28In Just Mercy, Brie Larson's Eva Ansley works beside a crusading lawyer played by which actor?
Michael B. Jordan
Michael B. Jordan plays Bryan Stevenson, with Jamie Foxx as the death row inmate he fights to free. In the film, Ansley helps him set up the Equal Justice Initiative.
Q 29In Short Term 12, Brie Larson's first leading film role, where does her character Grace work?
A group home
A group home for troubled teenagers is where Grace works as a supervisor. Larson prepared by spending time with staff at a children's home, and the film cost under $1 million.
Q 30Which director made three films with Brie Larson: Short Term 12, The Glass Castle and Just Mercy?
Destin Daniel Cretton
Destin Daniel Cretton gave Larson her first lead. He praises her improvising, saying he never knows what will happen in a scene and often she doesn't either.