Jennifer Lawrence is an American actress. She is famous for her roles as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games and its subsequent sequels and also as Raven Darkhölme / Mystique in X-Men: First Class and its sequels. Lawrence was The world’s highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016.
Jennifer Lawrence Biography
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Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on 15th August 1990, in Indian Hills, Kentucky to parents Gary Lawrence, a construction company owner, and Karen Lawrence, a summer camp manager. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine Lawrence. She was raised to be just as tough as her brothers and was permitted to play with other girls in her preschool as she was deemed “too rough” for the girls. She suffered anxiety growing up as she has difficulty fitting in with her peers. She attended Kammerer Middle School in Louisville. While in school she was involved in cheerleading, softball, and field hockey, she also played basketball with the boys’ team coached by her father. Lawrence also enjoyed horseback riding until she suffered from a tailbone injury when she was thrown from a horse.
At age nine, she started acting in her local church plays and school musicals. When she was fourteen years old, she and her family went on a vacation in New York City where she was spotted by a talent scout and started auditioning for acting roles. Her mother discouraged her from acting and told her to model instead but Lawrence insisted on acting. Her family moved briefly to New York so she could go for auditions. She signed with CESD Talent Agency, which told her parents to let her audition for roles in Los Angeles. At age fourteen, she dropped out of school.
Jennifer Lawrence Career
Lawrence got her first acting role in 2006 in a movie that never aired titled TV pilot Company Town. Afterward, she had roles in television shows such as Medium and Monk. Her first recurring role in a series was as Lauren on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show. Lawrence made an appearance in her first film as Tiff in the film Garden Party. She was cast alongside Charlize Theron in Guillermo Arriaga’s feature film The Burning Plain. She was also featured that same year in the drama The Poker House.
In 2010, Lawrence had a lead role in the independent drama Winter’s Bone.
2011 was Lawrence’s breakthrough year, she started by appearing in the romantic comedy Like Crazy. Following that she was cast in the film The Beaver, although the film was originally filmed in 2009. Lawrence got one of her career-leaping roles as mutant Mystique replacing the actress Rebecca Romijin who was playing that role in the previous X-Men films. She recurred the role in X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse.
In 2012, Lawrence got another career-leaping role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games; she recurred the role in its subsequent sequels. The film was a huge success and made Lawrence the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. Both the film’s success and her amazing performance established her as an international star. Also in that year, she appeared in the romance film Silver Linings Playbook which was another huge success.
In 2013, she was cast in the film American Hustle. Two years later, Lawrence played businesswoman Joy Mangano in the biopic Joy. She was featured in the 2021 film Don’t Look Up and the 2022 film Causeway.
Jennifer Lawrence Movies and TV Shows
Monk (2006), Cold Case (2007), Medium (2007-2008), The Bill Engvall Show (2007-2009), Garden Party, The Poker House, The Burning Plain (2008), Winter’s Bone (2010), Like Crazy, The Beaver, X-Men: First Class (2011), The Hunger Games, Silver Linings Playbook, House at the End of the House (2012), The Devil You Know, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, American Hustle, Saturday Night Live (2013), X-Men: Days of Future Past, Serena, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, Joy (2015), A Beautiful Planet, X-Men: Apocalypse, Passengers (2016), Mother! Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2017), Red Sparrow (2018), Dark Phoenix (2019), Don’t Look Up (2021), Causeway (2022), and No Hard Feelings (2023).
Jennifer Lawrence Awards
Lawrence has won a total of 90 awards, which includes an Academy Award, 3 Golden Globe Awards, 4 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, 6 MTV Movie Awards, Teen Choice Awards, and even a Guinness World Record amongst others. Lawrence also has 176 awards nominations which include most from the same organizations she won from listed above and others such as People’s Choice Awards, Saturn Awards, Empire Awards, Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and several others.
Jennifer Lawrence Husband
Lawrence has been romantically linked to X-Men co-star Nicholas Hoult and filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.
In 2018, she started dating Cooke Maroney, an art gallery director. In 2019, they were engaged and by October of that year, Lawrence and Maroney married in Rhode Island. In February 2022, the couple had their first child; a son named Cy.
The 2014 celebrity photo leak, in which several n*** pictures of many celebrities were posted online. Lawrence was one of the many celebrities that were victims of the cyber leak.
She identifies as a feminist and an advocate for women’s reproductive rights.
Jennifer Lawrence Net Worth
As of 2023, Jennifer Lawrence has a net worth of $160 million.