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Brie Larson says she's 'grateful for the rejection' she endured during her 'slow burn' career - before winning an Oscar aged 25 for Room


The 34-year-old actress made her professional debut with a sketch for The Tonight Show With Jay Leno when she was only eight. Her career progressed until at the age of 25, she won an Oscar.

Brie played a kidnap victim who has spent seven years trapped in a filthy shed where she cares for her son (Jacob Tremblay), who was conceived when her abductor raped her. Two years after Room, she entered the sphere of mainstream Hollywood tentpoles with Kong: Skull Island, acting alongside Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L. Jackson. Brie played a kidnap victim who has spent seven years trapped in a filthy shed where she cares for her son (Jacob Tremblay), who was conceived when her abductor raped her

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