Brie Larson made jaws drop as she debuted her bold new hairdo on Monday.

The 35-year-old Oscar-winner looked near-unrecognizable as she took to Instagram to reveal that she had dyed her long golden blonde locks black and chopped it into a pixie cut.

Her drastic change comes as she gears up to act as the infamous character Elektra in the forthcoming eponymous Greek tragedy play, marking her West debut.

‘Elektra is here,’ she penned in the caption. 

The original 420 BC Sophocles play followed the character of Elektra who is overcome by sadness and seeking revenge after being haunted by her father’s murder when things take a nail-biting turn when her long lost brother Orestes returns.

Elektra will be staged at Theatre Royal Brighton from January 13 to 18, 2025 before it moves to London’s Duke of York’s Theatre for an 11-week season from January 24 to April 12.

Brie Larson made jaws drop as she debuted her bold new hairdo on Monday 

‘Elektra is here,’ she penned in the caption

The forthcoming adaptation was created by poet Anne Carson and directed by Oklahoma!’s Daniel Fish. 

Earlier this year, Larson told Variety she ‘couldn’t be more excited’ when announcing she had accepted the role. 

Read More Brie Larson shares she is ‘grateful’ for the ‘rejection’ she endured during her ‘slow burn’ career

‘I couldn’t be more excited to perform in this Greek drama, or in better company collaborating with Daniel Fish and Anne Carson,’ she gushed.

‘Storytelling has always been the way I organize life, feelings and experiences. I look forward to sharing space with the wonderful West End audience while we explore this timeless story.’

During the interview. Fish praised the actress’ skills as she steps into the role of Elektra. 

He said: ‘What is ancient and what is contemporary? Carson’s translation explodes this question.

‘It is a thrilling challenge to work on Sophocles’ tragedy, by way of Carson’s words, and on the beautiful stage of The Duke of York’s with Brie Larson.’

Empire Street Productions is taking on the project with Annie-B Parson acting as choreographer and Jeremy Herbert leads set design. 

Costume design was headed by Doey Lüthi, lighting design by Adam Silverman, sound design by Max and Ben Ringham and Ted Hearne acting as composer.

Heather Basten was the casting director with voice and dialect by Kate Godfrey and costume supervision from Deborah Andrews.

She waved goodbye to her long golden blonde locks; seen in August 

Her drastic change comes as she gears up to act as the infamous character Elektra in the forthcoming eponymous Greek tragedy play, marking her West debut 

The star wowed as she showed off the drastic look 

Back in June, Larson said she is ‘grateful for the rejection’ endured during her ‘slow burn’ career before winning an Oscar at age 25 for Room.

‘It gave me so much experience so that when I was given the opportunities, I was truly ready for it,’ she told Variety for their Actors On Actors edition.

The Captain Marvel star continued, ‘I mean, I’m so grateful that I had so much rejection growing up. It’s wild! I very much had a slow burn in my career.

‘I’d get close to things, so I knew that I had something, but I wasn’t booking, or I’d book one job a year or something – just enough to give me hope.’

2015 film Room sH๏τ Larson to worldwide fame and  earned her an Academy Award for best actress in a lead role.

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.

2015 film Room sH๏τ Larson to worldwide fame and earned her an Academy Award for best actress in a lead role – pictured at the 2016 Oscars 

In 2019 she made her thunderous debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the leading lady of Captain Marvel, which earned over $1 billion at the box office.

Brie embarked on a hiatus from acting when she went into lockdown for COVID-19, and she only returned to the movies in 2023.

She reprised her superhero role in The Marvels, a notorious flop, and she also joined the Fast And Furious franchise with Fast X, which performed tepidly.

The blonde actress was raised in Northern California and homeschooled by her parents, who were both homeopathic chiropractors.