Jennifer Lawrence | Biography, Movies, & Facts (2024)

American actress

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In full:
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence
Born:
August 15, 1990, Indian Hills, northeast of Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. (age 33)
Awards And Honors:
Golden Globe Award (2016)
Golden Globe Award (2013)
Academy Award (2013)
Academy Award (2013): Actress in a Leading Role
Golden Globe Award (2016): Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Golden Globe Award (2014): Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Golden Globe Award (2013): Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

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Jennifer Lawrence (born August 15, 1990, Indian Hills, northeast of Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.) is an American actress who is known for her versatility on-screen and her accessible, honest off-screen persona. At the age of 22, she won the Academy Award for best actress for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook (2012).

Lawrence knew from an early age that she wanted to act, and she began performing in school plays and local theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. At the age of 14, in 2005, hoping to break into acting and modeling, she went with her mother to New York City to visit talent agencies. While there, she was discovered by a talent scout and subsequently auditioned for his agency. She spent the summer of that year in New York, performing small acting roles and modeling for advertisem*nts. On the basis of that success, after Lawrence’s early graduation from high school, the family moved to Los Angeles to allow her to further her career.

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From 2007 to 2009 Lawrence played the teenaged daughter of a psychotherapist in the cable television comedy The Bill Engvall Show. She soon followed that with the role that proved to be her big break, the lead in the movie Winter’s Bone (2010). For her portrayal of Ree, a poor rural teenager tracking down her missing criminal father in the Ozark Mountains, Lawrence, at the age of 20, received her first best actress Academy Award nomination.

Lawrence rose to greater fame in the role of the shape-shifting mutant Mystique in X-Men: First Class (2011), a role she reprised in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and Dark Phoenix (2019). She made the transition to stardom upon being cast as heroine Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012)—the film version of the first book in the Hunger Games trilogy,Suzanne Collins’s runaway best-selling young-adult novels. As Katniss, Lawrence played a character with some similarities to Ree, another tough teenager using outdoor survival skills to stay alive in dire circ*mstances. Lawrence also starred in another notable film in 2012, director David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook. In that movie she played Tiffany Maxwell, a young widow who befriends a man struggling with mental illness (played by Bradley Cooper). She won critical acclaim in the popular film and became the second youngest woman to win the Academy Award for best actress (2013). Lawrence then appeared as the wife of a con artist (Christian Bale) in Russell’s cat-and-mouse romp American Hustle (2013); the role earned her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress.

She reprised the role of Katniss in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014), and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2015). Lawrence again paired with Cooper in Serena (2014), a poorly received drama set in a lumber camp in 1929. In 2015 she portrayed a benighted single mother whose entrepreneurial talents propel her to wealth and success in Russell’s Joy; for her performance, Lawrence received her fourth Oscar nomination. She narrated A Beautiful Planet (2016), a documentary featuring footage of Earth taken from the International Space Station. Her other 2016 credit was the sci-fi romance Passengers, in which she played a writer who was among 5,000 hibernating intergalactic travelers heading to another planet. In 2017 Lawrence starred in the psychological thriller Mother! as the second wife of a famous poet, whose peaceful life in a secluded mansion is disrupted by the arrival of strangers. She then played a former ballerina who becomes a Russian spy in the thriller Red Sparrow (2018). In the dramedy Don’t Look Up (2021), Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio were cast as astronomers who try to warn humankind of an impending comet strike that will destroy Earth.

During this time Lawrence began to seek out more personal projects. This led to her starring role in Causeway (2022), an understated drama about an Afghanistan War veteran who returns home after suffering a brain injury.

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Lawrence’s personal life was often a source of media attention. In 2019 she married Cooke Maroney, an art dealer. Three years later the couple’s son, Cy, was born.

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