| Jennifer Lawrence |
Lawrence at the 83rd Academy Awards, February 27, 2011 |
| Born |
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence
(1990-08-15) August 15, 1990 (age 21)
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Occupation |
Actress |
| Years active |
2006–present |
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence[1] (born August 15, 1990) is an American film and television actress. She had lead roles in TBS's The Bill Engvall Show and in the independent films The Burning Plain and Winter's Bone, for which she received nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Satellite Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award. At age 20, she was the second youngest actress ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She is also known for playing Mystique in X-Men: First Class. In 2012, Lawrence achieved wider recognition starring as the heroine Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, an adaptation of Suzanne Collins' best-selling novel of the same name. Her performance in the film garnered her notable critical praise and marked her as the highest grossing action heroine of all time.[2][3] Lawrence's performances thus far have prompted Rolling Stone to define her as "the most talented young actress in America."[4]
Lawrence was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and has two older brothers. Her parents are Karen (née Koch), who runs a children's camp, and Gary Lawrence, who once owned a concrete construction firm, Lawrence & Associates.[5][6][7] She acted in local theater[8] and, by the age of 14, had decided to pursue an acting career, persuading her parents to take her to New York City to find a talent agent. Prior to finding success in Hollywood, Lawrence attended Kammerer Middle School. She graduated from high school two years early with a 3.9 average in order to begin a career in acting.[5][9] While growing up and in between acting, Lawrence served as an assistant nurse at the children's summer day camp that her mother ran.[10]
Lawrence had never taken any drama classes/lessons for acting.[5] She started out her acting career in the TBS comedy The Bill Engvall Show, playing the eldest daughter of Lauren Pearson. Written and created by Bill Engvall and Michael Leeson, the show is set in a Denver suburb and follows the life of 'Bill Pearson' (played by Engvall), a family counselor whose own family could use a little dose of counseling. The series went on the air in September 2007 and was canceled in 2009 after three seasons. Lawrence received the Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young Performer in a TV Series for her role in the show.
Lawrence had guest-roles in the television series The Devil You Know, Cold Case, Medium, and Monk.[11]
In 2008, she appeared in a small role in the film Garden Party as Tiff. It was directed by Jason Freeland. The same year, Lawrence appeared on the big screen in Guillermo Arriaga's film directorial debut The Burning Plain, opposite Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger. Her performance in the film earned her the Marcello Mastroianni Award for best young emerging actor/actress at the Venice Film Festival in 2008.[12]
Still in 2008, Lawrence had the lead role in another film director's debut, Lori Petty's family drama The Poker House, opposite Selma Blair and Chloë Moretz, where she starred as Agnes, a young girl victim of abuse.[13] Lawrence was awarded the Los Angeles Film Festival for Outstanding Performance for her role in the film. She appeared in the music video for the song "The Mess I Made", from the 2009 album Losing Sleep by Parachute.
Lawrence's lead role in Debra Granik's Winter's Bone, which won best picture at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, is generally cited as a breakout performance for her.[14] She portrays Ree Dolly, a seventeen-year-old in the Ozark Mountains who cares for her mentally ill mother and her younger brother and sister. Ree then discovers that her father put their house and land up as a bond for a court appearance before he disappeared, and the family now faces eviction.[15] The performance was highly acclaimed by film critics. David Denby, writing in The New Yorker, said "the movie would be unimaginable with anyone less charismatic playing Ree."[16] Peter Travers from the Rolling Stone also spoke highly of her and noted that "her performance is more than acting, it's a gathering storm. Lawrence's eyes are a roadmap to what's tearing Ree apart".[17] Receiving accolades for her performance, Lawrence was awarded the National Board of Review Award for Best Breakthrough Performance. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress on January 25, 2011, becoming the second-youngest actress to date to be nominated for the category,[18] and also accrued nominations from the Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, and the Satellite Awards among others.
Lawrence had a role in The Beaver, a dark comedy starring Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson that was filmed in 2009, but which spent an extended period of time stalled due to controversies surrounding Gibson. It was released on May 6, 2011. Lawrence co-starred in the independent film Like Crazy, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and received a wider release by Paramount Pictures.[19]
On June 18, 2011, it was announced that Lawrence was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In June 2011, she starred as shape-shifting villain Mystique alongside James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender in X-Men: First Class,[20] a prequel to the rest of the X-Men film series and will be reprising this role again in the sequel. Lawrence's Mystique is a younger version of the character played by Rebecca Romijn in earlier X-Men films.
She is also set to star alongside Elisabeth Shue in Mark Tonderai's thriller House at the End of the Street,[21] which completed filming in 2010 and is in post-production.[22]
Lawrence was cast in David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook, opposite Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. She was originally cast to play "O" in the film Savages directed by Oliver Stone, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
In 2012, Lawrence replaced Angelina Jolie in Susanne Bier's period thriller, The Falling, based on the novel Serena by Ron Rash.[23][24] She will be playing the role of Serena who learns that she can never bear her husband children and is set out to murder the woman who bore her husband an illegitimate son before their marriage.
[edit] The Hunger Games
In March 2011, Lawrence was offered the part of Katniss Everdeen in the film The Hunger Games, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. Despite being a fan of the books, Lawrence took three days to accept the role because she was initially intimidated by the size of the movie and what it may mean for her fame.[25] She underwent extensive training to get in shape for the role, including stunt training, archery, rock and tree climbing, combat, running, parkour, pilates, and yoga.[26][27] The film was released on March 23, 2012, and set the record for the third-largest opening weekend of all time, making a record-breaking $152.5 million in three days for a non-sequel film.[28]
The fact that The Hunger Games emerged as a big box office hit with a female lead represents a dramatic shift for the action film genre because historically, among the "top 200 worldwide box-office hits ever ($350 million and up), not one has been built around a female action star" and for the first time ever, Lawrence contradicts that.[29] She is currently the highest grossing action heroine.
Though the film generally received positive reviews, Lawrence's strong portrayal of Katniss Everdeen was the most highly praised with Todd McCarthy from The Hollywood Reporter saying Lawrence embodies Katniss, "just as one might imagine her from the novel" and "anchors" the whole film "with impressive gravity and presence", ultimately calling her "the ideal screen actress".[30] Kenneth Turan from the Los Angeles Times stated that Lawrence is the "best possible performer as Katniss and is the key factor in making 'Hunger Games' an involving popular entertainment with strong narrative drive that holds our attention".[31] Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert also agreed that "Lawrence is strong and convincing in the central role".[32]
Lawrence will start filming the film adaptation of the second novel in the The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire, this summer, which is scheduled to be released on November 23, 2013.[33]
Lawrence lived in New York City for the first few years of her career, but now resides in Santa Monica, California.[5] She likes to paint, knit sweaters and scarves, surf, and play the guitar.[34][35] She has been dating English actor Nicholas Hoult since 2011.[36]
- ^ According to the State of Hawaii. Hawaii Birth Index, 1911–1999. Searchable at http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/12252
- ^ "'Hunger Games': Jennifer Lawrence reaps praise from critics". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/03/the-hunger-games-jennifer-lawrence-movie-reviews-critics.html. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ^ "Action Heroine Movies at the Box Office". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=actionheroine.htm. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
- ^ "How the 'Hunger Games' star became the coolest chick in Hollywood". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/cover-story-excerpt-jennifer-lawrence-20120328. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
- ^ a b c d Schneller, Johanna (June 11, 2010). "Interview with Winter's Bone star Jennifer Lawrence". The Globe and Mail (Canada). http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/johanna-schneller/interview-with-winters-bone-star-jennifer-lawrence/article1600683/. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
- ^ Moss, Josh (2010-12). "Too young for methods: Louisville's Academy Award-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence [Movies"]. Louisville Magazine. http://www.louisville.com/content/too-young-methods-louisvilles-academy-award-nominated-actress-jennifer-lawrence-movies. Retrieved February 11, 2011.
- ^ Lord, Joseph (January 23, 2011). "Louisville's Jennifer Lawrence waits for magical Oscar nomination". Louisville Courier-Journal. http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110123/FEATURES07/301230059/1011/SCENE/Louisville+s+Jennifer+Lawrence+waits+for+magical+Oscar+nomination. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
- ^ Lord, Joseph (October 14, 2009). "Jennifer Lawrence: Bigger Things". Louisville Courier-Journal. http://louisville.metromix.com/movies/article/jennifer-lawrence-bigger-things/1535101/content. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
- ^ http://www.askmen.com/celebs/women/actress/jennifer-lawrence
- ^ November 11, 2010 (2010-11-11). "Jennifer Lawrence, playing to strength - Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/11/news/la-en-1111-lawrence-20101111. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
- ^ Stern, Marlow (June 12, 2010). "Jennifer Lawrence is the breakout star of Winter's Bone!". Manhattan Movie Magazine. http://www.manhattanmoviemag.com/interviews/jennifer-lawrence-is-the-breakout-star-of-winter%E2%80%99s-bone.html. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
- ^ "Lawrence holds Marcello Mastroianni Award at Venice". Sina. http://english.sina.com/entertainment/p/2008/0908/185059.html. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
- ^ Roberts, Sheila (July 17, 2009). "Interview: Jennifer Lawrence and Director Lori Petty on THE POKER HOUSE". collider.com. http://collider.com/interview-jennifer-lawrence-and-director-lori-petty-on-the-poker-house/4174/. Retrieved March 23, 2012.
- ^ Medina, Jeremy (June 28, 2010). "Jennifer Lawrence dishes on 'Winter's Bone' and stripping for 'Esquire'". BlackBook. http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/jennifer-lawrence/20149. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
- ^ Kit, Borys (October 14, 2010). "Two join 'House at the End of the Street'". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/two-join-house-end-street-24282.
- ^ Denby, David (July 5, 2010). "Current Cinema: Thrills and Chills". The New Yorker (Condé Nast): 78–79. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2010/07/05/100705crci_cinema_denby. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
- ^ "Winter's Bone Review". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/winters-bone-20100603. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- ^ MTV News Staff (January 25, 2010). "Oscar Nominations List 2011". MTV. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1656582/2011-oscar-nominations.jhtml. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
- ^ Zeitchik, Steven (January 23, 2011). "Sundance 2011: 'Like Crazy' is bought, and will be released by, Paramount Pictures". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/01/like-crazy-sundance-anton-yelchin-jones-jennifer-lawrence.html. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
- ^ Wells, Jeffrey (October 24, 2010). "Lawrence on the Line". Hollywood elsewhere. http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/10/lawrence_on_the.php. Retrieved November 22, 2010.
- ^ Max Thieriot and Jennifer Lawrence Move into the House at the End of the Street
- ^ a b "House at the End of the Street". IMDb (Amazon.com). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1582507. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
- ^ a b "Toby Jones talks working with Jennifer Lawrence again in “The Falling” – IFC". Ifc.com. 2012-04-18. http://www.ifc.com/fix/2012/04/toby-jones-jennifer-lawrence-the-falling-serena. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
- ^ "Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper Featured in First Image for 'Serena' (Photo)". The Hollywood Reporter. 2011-11-17. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jennifer-lawrence-bradley-cooper-serena-photo-hunger-games-311050. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
- ^ Galloway, Steven (February 1, 2012). "Jennifer Lawrence: A Brand-New Superstar". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hunger-games-jennifer-lawrence-katniss-286282. Retrieved February 7, 2012.
- ^ "Hunger Games Training Fun". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a321543/jennifer-lawrence-hunger-games-training-fun.html. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ^ Emily Listfield (2012-03-14). "Jennifer Lawrence on How the Kardashians Are Like 'The Hunger Games'". Parade.com. http://www.parade.com/celebrity/celebrity-parade/2012/03/jennifer-lawrence-hunger-games.html. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
- ^ "Weekend Report: 'The Hunger Games' Devours $152.5 Million". Box Office mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3401&p=.htm. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- ^ "Hungering for a female hero: 'Hunger Games' may break new ground". Detroit News. http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120322/OPINION03/203220390. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
- ^ "The Hunger Games: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/hunger-games-film-review-jennifer-lawrence-josh-hutcherson-300825. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ^ "Hunger Games Review". LA Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/21/entertainment/la-et-hunger-games-20120322. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
- ^ Roger Ebert. "The Hunger Games". Chicago Sun-Times. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120320/REVIEWS/120319986. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ^ "Jennifer Lawrence's Very Good Problem: Two Franchises, Too Little Time". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jennifer-lawrence-hunger-games-x-men-very-good-problem-300681. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ^ "Jennifer Lawrence, playing to strength". LA Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/11/news/la-en-1111-lawrence-20101111. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- ^ "The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence talks". Glamour. http://www.glamour.com/entertainment/blogs/obsessed/2012/02/get-a-sneak-preview-of-glamour-1.html. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- ^ "Zoe Kravitz says Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult are perfect - Story - Entertainment". 3 News. 2012-03-30. http://www.3news.co.nz/Zoe-Kravitz-says-Jennifer-Lawrence-and-Nicholas-Hoult-are-perfect/tabid/418/articleID/248663/Default.aspx. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
- ^ "32nd Annual Young Artist Awards – Nominations / Special Awards". The Young Artist Foundation. 2011. http://www.youngartistawards.org/noms32.html. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
- ^ "2011 IGN Award for Best Ensemble Cast". IGN. http://uk.ign.com/lists/summer-movie-awards-2011/best-ensemble-cast. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Teen_Choice_Awards
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Lawrence, Jennifer |
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| Short description |
American actress |
| Date of birth |
August 15, 1990 |
| Place of birth |
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
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