Jennifer Shrader Lawrence [edit]
(born on August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Her first major role was as a lead cast member on the TBS sitcom
The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009). She then later appeared in the independent drama
Winter's Bone (2010) while her first commercial success was the Marvel superhero film
X-Men: First Class (2011).
Lawrence gained international fame [edit]
for playing heroine
Katniss Everdeen in the
Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), which established her as the highest-grossing action heroine as of 2015. She starred in
David O. Russell's romantic comedy
Silver Linings Playbook (2012), for which she won a
Golden Globe Award, a
Screen Actors Guild Award, and the
Academy Award for
Best Actress, becoming the second-youngest
Best Actress Oscar winner. For her supporting role in Russell's comedy-drama
American Hustle (2013), she won a
BAFTA Award and a
Golden Globe Award.
Kentucky-born actress [edit]
Jennifer Lawrence began her career as a teenager, appearing on shows like
Monk and
The Bill Engvall Show from 2006 through 2009. In 2008, she appeared alongside
Charlize Theron in the critically acclaimed film
The Burning Plain, for which she won the
Marcello Mastroianni Award for the best young emerging actor/actress. She next made waves starring as the daughter of a troubled mother in 2010's
Winter's Bone, which garnered her an
Oscar nomination for
Best Actress. In 2011 she appeared in the well-reviewed romantic drama
Like Crazy, and she won the coveted lead role in the highly anticipated adaptation of The
Hunger Games, which would become one of the biggest smash hits of 2012. As if that weren't heady enough for an actress only 22 years old, Lawrence earned stellar reviews for her work opposite
Bradley Cooper in
Silver Linings Playbook, a critical and popular hit at the end of that year that earned Lawrence the
Oscar for
Best Actress. The next year followed the same successful pattern, with the second installment of the
Hunger Game series,
Catching Fire, capturing the number one spot at the domestic box office for 2013, and also grabbing another
Oscar nomination for
American Hustle.
Fact Sheet [edit]
She grew up a tomboy [edit]
in Kentucky and played sports, including basketball on an otherwise all-boy team; nickname was Nitro.
She knew she wanted to be an actress at age 14 after a talent agent stopped her on the street in New York, took her picture and sent her on auditions.
She received the [edit]
Outstanding Performance Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival for The Poker House in 2008.
She was named [edit]
as Best New Young Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in The Burning Plain.
She was named [edit]
by the New York Times as one of the 50 people to watch in 2010.
She took over 8 hours [edit]
to apply her makeup and 3 more hours to remove it for her role as the blue-skinned mutant Mystique in the 2011 film X-Men: First Class.
Winter's Bone, X-Men: First Class, The Hunger Games, Silver Linings Playbook.
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