Jennifer Lawrence

JENNIFER LAWRENCE

Kentucky-conceived TV performing artist Jennifer Shrader Lawrence made Hollywood sit up and focus when she played the lead in 2010 free film Winter's Bone. The film was a basic crush and earned her an Academy Award selection for Best Actress - making her the second most youthful on-screen character to do as such, as she was just 20 at the time - and in addition a large number of different designations and grants. Post-Winter's Bone, Lawrence has naturally been hot property and needs to date either featured or been cast in X-Men: First Class, the basically acclaimed Like Crazy, The Hunger Games (in addition to its continuation, Catching Fire), and The Silver Linings Playbook, inverse Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. She lives in Santa Monica, California.

Lawrence’s big break came when she was discovered at 14 while on spring break in New York with her family. A stranger asked to take her picture and took her mother’s phone number, then called the next day to ask her to do a screen test. Things happened quickly after that: Lawrence stayed in New York City for the summer, acting in commercials for MTV and filming the thriller Devil You Know with Lena Olin. Soon after, she and her family moved to Los Angeles, where she had small roles on the series Medium, Monk and Cold Case, before landing a part on the TBS series The Bill Engvall Show. While working on the series, she also appeared in feature films like The Poker House and The Burning Plain alongside Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger.

After The Bill Engvall Show was canceled after three seasons, Lawrence went on to appear in the critically acclaimed Winter’s Bone in 2010, which earned her nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Opportunities continued to pour in, and in 2011 Lawrence appeared in The Beaver with Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Anton Yelchin, and played Mystique in X-Men: First Class.

In 2012, Lawrence played Katniss Everdeen, the lead in The Hunger Games, the film adaptation of a novel by Suzanne Collins. Set in a post-apocalyptic state, Lawrence's character must participate in an event in which 24 teens fight to the death as televised entertainment. The film broke box-office records on opening weekend, and Lawrence was asked to reprise her role for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in 2013. 

Other 2012 releases include the thriller House at the End of the Street, co-starring Elisabeth Shue, and two dramas with Bradley Cooper: The Falling and Silver Linings Playbook, which has garnered several award nominations, including a Golden Globe nomination (best actress in a comedy or musical) for Lawrence. She took home the Academy Award for best actress in February 2013. Lawrence seemed overcome with emotion as she accepted the honor. In her characteristic frankness, she told the audience that "this is nuts" and went on to thank the cast and crew of Silver Linings Playbook.

In early 2015, Lawrence, Cooper and Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell signed on to bring the story of inventor Joy Mangano to the big screen, with Lawrence taking on the lead role.

Personal Life

Lawrence graduated from high school two years early with a 3.9 GPA, part of the deal her parents made with her to allow her to pursue acting. She now lives in Santa Monica with her dog and plans to pursue directing.

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