Lawrence, Jennifer (1990-…), is an American motion-picture actress. She has appeared in a variety of movies of different genres (styles), including adventure, biography, drama, romance, science-fiction, and thriller. Lawrence received the Academy Award for best actress for her performance in the film Silver Linings Playbook (2012). She played a mentally unstable widow in love with a divorced man recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Lawrence also has won several Golden Globe Awards for her acting.
Lawrence may be best known for playing the heroine Katniss Everdeen in the film The Hunger Games (2012) and its several sequels. The “Hunger Games” films were based on a series of books for young adults by the American author Suzanne Collins. They depict a future society in which teenagers are forced to battle to the death. See Hunger Games, The.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on Aug. 15, 1990, in Louisville, Kentucky. As a child, she appeared in local theatrical productions. In 2004, Lawrence traveled with her mother to New York City to interview with talent agencies. She soon began acting in television commercials and in TV movies and series.
Lawrence later moved with her family to Los Angeles, California, to pursue her acting career. From 2007 to 2009, she appeared on the sitcom (situation comedy) “The Bill Engvall Show.” Lawrence made her first motion-picture appearance in Garden Party (2008). In 2010, she won critical praise for her performance in Winter’s Bone. In that film, she played a teenager trying to keep her family together by tracking down her drug-dealing father in the Ozark Mountains.
Lawrence’s other films include The Poker House and The Burning Plain (both 2008); X-Men: First Class (2011) and the sequel X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) ; The Beaver and Like Crazy (both 2011); House at the End of the Street (2012); American Hustle (2013); Serena (2014); Joy (2015); Passengers (2016); and No Hard Feelings (2023).
