Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990, in Indian Hills, Kentucky. At age 14, she was spotted by a talent scout while vacationing in New York City with her family. Her first major role came as a main cast member on the sitcom The Bill Engvall Show. She had her breakthrough playing a poverty-stricken teenager in the independent drama Winter’s Bone. Her career progressed with her starring roles as the mutant Mystique in the X-Men film series and Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film series. Her performance as a depressed young widow in the romance film Silver Linings Playbook earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990, in Indian Hills, Kentucky. At age 14, she was spotted by a talent scout while vacationing in New York City with her family. Lawrence then moved to Los Angeles and began her acting career by playing guest roles in television shows. Her first major role came as a main cast member on the sitcom The Bill Engvall Show. She had her breakthrough playing a poverty-stricken teenager in the independent drama Winter’s Bone. Her career progressed with her starring roles as the mutant Mystique in the X-Men film series and Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film series. Her performance as a depressed young widow in the romance film Silver Linings Playbook earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the second-youngest winner of the award. She has since starred in the science fiction romance Passengers, the psychological horror film Mother! and the spy thriller Red Sparrow. In 2015, she founded the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation, which has advocated for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Special Olympics. She formed the production company Excellent Cadaver in 2018. Lawrence is an outspoken feminist and has advocates for Planned Parenthood. She was the world’s highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016. Her films have grossed over USD 6 billion worldwide. Lawrence appeared in Time’s 100 most influential people in the world list in 2013 and in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2014 and 2016, and was named one of the top 100 most powerful women of the year by Forbes.
She is the daughter of Gary, a construction company owner, and Karen, a summer camp manager. Lawrence’s school activities included cheerleading, softball, field hockey and basketball, which she played on a boys’ team that was coached by her father. She did not enjoy her childhood due to hyperactivity and social anxiety and considered herself a misfit among her peers. While her mother encouraged her to go into modelling, Lawrence insisted on pursuing acting to be a natural fit for her abilities. She dropped out of school at age 14 without receiving a diploma or a GED assignments. Lawrence has said that she was self-educated and that her career was a priority and that she has always felt that acting gave her a sense of accomplishment. Her mother did not allow her daughter to play with other girls in preschool as she deemed her “too rough” with them. While growing up, Lawrence was fond of horseback riding and frequently visited a local horse farm. Her father worked from home, she performed for him, often dressing up as a clown or ballerina. She played the role of a prostitute in a church play that was based on the Book of Jonah at age nine when she played a role in the movie Garden Party. She also had a minor role in an unsold unaired TV pilot Company Town. She followed it with roles in several television shows, including The Monk and Medium and The TBS series TBS.
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