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Age: 20
Hometown: Sacramento, California
New Medium: After appearing in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Brie spent her summer onstage in the Williamstown Theater Festival's production of Our Town.
On Television: "We work intensely for three months, come back a year later, and remember where we left off," she says of playing Kate on United States of Tara. "It's amazing."
The Problem? "Imagine getting in an argument or laughing the hardest and realizing later that someone was filming what you were doing."
Age: 20. Provenance: Sacramento. “From there, I went to San Francisco to join the American Conservatory Theater”—alma mater of, among others, Annette Bening and Denzel Washington. Sulking up the small screen as … Kate, the exasperated daughter of Toni Collette’s multiple-personality-afflicted character in Showtime’s United States of Tara, now in its second season. After what she thought was a disastrous audition for the show—“I felt so sick afterward; there were 20 people there, including Diablo Cody!”—Larson attempted catharsis by hacking off most of her hair. Fortunately, she got the part—and replacement locks. “They were pretty cool about it,” Larson says. “They put extensions in. It’s all magic!” Further quirkage afoot … in Noah Baumbach’s new movie, Greenberg. After she ran some lines with Baumbach and his wife, co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh, Larson says, “they were asking me whether or not I could get my friends as extras in the party scene. I know enough unemployed musicians that I was able to pull it together!”