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As the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born August 15, 1990, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Karen (Koch), who manages a children's camp, and Gary Lawrence, who works in construction. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine, and has English, German, Irish, and Scottish ancestry.
Her career began when she traveled to Manhattan at the age of fourteen after dropping out of the 8th grade. After conducting her first cold read, agents told her mother that "it was the best cold read by a 14-year-old they had ever heard," and tried to convince her stage mother that she needed to spend the summer in Manhattan. After leaving the agency, Jennifer was spotted by an agent in the midst of shooting an H&M ad and asked to take her picture. The next day, that agent followed up with her and invited her to the studio for a cold-read audition. Again, the agents were highly impressed and strongly urged her mother to allow her to spend the summer in New York City. As fate would have it, she did and subsequently appeared in commercials such as MTV's "My Super Sweet 16" and played a role in the movie The Devil You Know (2013).
Shortly thereafter, her career forced her and her family to move to Los Angeles, where she was cast in the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007), and in smaller movies such as The Poker House (2008) and The Burning Plain (2008).
Her big break came when she played Ree in Winter's Bone (2010), which landed her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. Shortly thereafter, she secured the role of Mystique in franchise reboot X-Men: First Class (2011), which went on to be a hit in Summer 2011. Around this time, Lawrence scored the role of a lifetime when she was cast as Katniss Everdeen in the big-screen adaptation of literary sensation The Hunger Games (2012). The film went on to become one of the highest-grossing movies ever, with over $407 million at the US box office, and instantly propelled Lawrence to the A-list among young actors and actresses. Three Hunger Games sequels were released in each consecutive November: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), with Lawrence reprising her role.
In 2012, the romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook (2012) earned her the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Satellite Award, and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress, among other accolades, making her the youngest person ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actress and the second-youngest Best Actress winner.
She starred in David O. Russell's popular drama-comedy American Hustle (2013), as Roselyn Rosenfield, and teamed with the director again to play inventor Joy Mangano in another family comedy, Joy (2015), for which she earned Oscar nominations for both roles (Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively).- Actress
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Jennifer E. Lawrence is known for Nine Days That Changed the World (2010), Perfect Valor (2009) and Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny (2009).- Jennifer Lawrence is known for Westside N 'Ja (1996).
- Jennifer Lawrence is the Executive Director at the SEAT Center. Her work includes the creation and oversight of YouthBuild Schenectady and the ongoing expansion of our social enterprise services. Jennifer holds a Masters of Social Work Administration from Fordham University and attended the SUNY Albany Executive MBA Program. Jennifer's current focus is on building sustainability and infrastructure, with special attention to programming that provides a participatory learning environment, models high expectations, incorporates youth voice, and creates future hope. Jennifer is a strong advocate of youth employment as a means to decrease crime, increase hope, and make sustainable change. Jennifer is a graduate of the American Express Leadership Institute/ Center for Creative Leadership and was a 2009-2011 YouthBuild USA Director's Fellow. In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys spending quality time with her son Anthony and obsessing about all things SEAT!
- Jennifer Lawrence is known for Bring Me Home (2013).
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Jennifer Johnson Lawrence was born in McAllen,Texas in June of 1971. She is the oldest of 6 siblings, three brothers and three sisters. She has two children, a son, Brey Browne (21) and daughter, Addyson Lawrence (8) both of whom are actively involved in the entertainment industry. She is the Executive Producer for Wildfox Films, LLC, of South Texas and most recently recognized for her short film "stay." which was the recipient of the 2015 Atlanta Shortsfest Best Short Short, 2015 Spotlight Short Film Gold Award and one of fifteen short films to be screened this spring in the DAMN! Film Series in New York City. Jennifer has a Master's Degree in Interdiciplinary Studies from the University of Texas in Edinburg, a BA in Sociology as well as double Associates Degrees in Chemistry and Biology. She likewise attended St. Mary's Law School in San Antonio and is a Licensed Mediator in the State of Texas. However, writing and directing has always been her passion and what she enjoys most. Jennifer has a true gift in creative writing, for both screen and television. She has written numerous projects and in 2016 completed production her first TV Episodic Pilot, "THE BAR". She is currently completing her first feature film, "The Ranch" as well as launching her next short film "Dead Wrong" into pre-production. She spends most of her spare time to her children and spends her weekends at the beach. She is actively involved in the production of local short films in and around South Texas, and promoting the Rio Grande Valley as a hub for future film production.