Jennifer Lawrence Early Life, Relationships, Career, Family, Wiki, Age, Producing, Filmography

Name: Jennifer Lawrence

Birth date: 15 of August 1990 (28 y.o.) 

Place of birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA 

Height: 172 cm 

Weight: 56 kg 

Birth Sign: Leo 

Chinese zodiac: Horse 

Occupation: actress

Early life

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990 in Indian Hills, Kentucky, to Gary, a construction worker, and Karen (née Koch), a summer camp manager. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine, and her mother brought her up to be "tough" like them. Karen did not allow her daughter to play with other girls in preschool as she deemed her "too rough" with them. Lawrence was educated at the Kammerer Middle School in Louisville. She did not enjoy her childhood due to hyperactivity and social anxiety and considered herself a misfit among her peers. Lawrence has said that her anxieties vanished when she performed on stage, and that acting gave her a sense of accomplishment.

Lawrence's school activities included cheerleading, softball, field hockey and basketball, which she played on a boys' team that was coached by her father. While growing up, she was fond of horseback riding and frequently visited a local horse farm. She has an injured tailboneas a result of being thrown from a horse. When her father worked from home, she performed for him, often dressing up as a clown or ballerina. She had her first acting assignment at age nine when she played the role of a prostitute in a church play that was based on the Book of Jonah. For the next few years, she continued to take parts in church plays and school musicals.

Lawrence was 14 and on a family vacation to New York City when she was spotted on the street by a talent scout who arranged for her to audition for talent agents. Karen was not keen on allowing her daughter to pursue an acting career, but she briefly moved her family to the city to let her read for roles. After Lawrence's first cold reading, the agents said that hers was the best they had heard from someone that young; Lawrence's mother convinced her that they were lying. Lawrence said her early experiences were difficult because she felt lonely and friendless. She signed on with the CESD Talent Agency, who convinced her parents to let her audition for roles in Los Angeles. While her mother encouraged her to go into modeling instead, Lawrence insisted on pursuing acting. At that time, she considered acting to be a natural fit for her abilities, and she turned down several offers for modeling assignments. Lawrence dropped out of school at age 14 without receiving a GED or a diploma. She has said that she was "self-educated" and that her career was her priority. Between her acting jobs in the city, she made regular visits to Louisville, where she served as an assistant nurse at her mother's camp.

Career

2006–2010: Career beginnings and breakthrough

Lawrence began her acting career with a minor role in the television film Company Town (2006). She followed it with guest roles in several television shows, including Monk(2006) and Medium (2007). These parts led to her being cast as a series regular on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show, in which she played Lauren, the rebellious teenage daughter of a family living in suburban Louisville, Colorado. The series premiered in 2007 and ran for three seasons. Tom Shales of The Washington Postconsidered her a scene stealer in her part, and David Hinckley of the New York Daily News wrote that she was successful in "deliver[ing] the perpetual exasperation of teenage girls". Lawrence won a Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young Performer in a TV Series for the role in 2009.

Lawrence made her film debut in the 2008 drama film Garden Party, in which she played a troubled teenager named Tiff. She then appeared in director Guillermo Arriaga's feature film debut The Burning Plain (2008), a drama narrated in a hyperlink format. She was cast as the teenage daughter of Kim Basinger's character who discovers her mother's extramarital affair—a role she shared with Charlize Theron; both actresses portrayed the role at different stages of the character's life. Mark Feeney for The Boston Globe thought of Lawrence's performance as "a thankless task", but Derek Elley from Variety praised her as the production's prime asset, writing that she "plumbs fresher depths" into the film. Her performance earned her the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Emerging Actress at the Venice Film Festival. Also that year, she appeared in the music video for the song "The Mess I Made" by Parachute. The following year, she starred in Lori Petty's drama The Poker House as the oldest of three sisters living with a drug-abusing mother. Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter thought that Lawrence "has a touching poise on camera that conveys the resilience of children", and her role in The Poker House won an Outstanding Performance award from the Los Angeles Film Festival.

Lawrence's breakthrough role came in the small-scale drama Winter's Bone (2010), based on Daniel Woodrell's novel of the same name. In Debra Granik's independent feature, she portrayed Ree Dolly, a poverty-stricken teenager in the Ozark Mountains who cares for her mentally ill mother and younger siblings while searching for her missing father. Lawrence traveled to the Ozarks a week before filming began to live with the family on whom the story was based, and in preparation, she learned to fight, skin squirrels, and chop wood. David Denby of The New Yorker said the film "would be unimaginable with anyone less charismatic", and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that "her performance is more than acting, it's a gathering storm. Lawrence's eyes are a roadmap to what's tearing Ree apart." The production won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The actress was awarded the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance, and with her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, she became the second youngest person to be nominated in the category.

Personal life

While filming X-Men: First Class in 2010, Lawrence began a romantic relationship with her co-star Nicholas Hoult. The couple broke up around the time they wrapped X-Men: Days of Future Past in 2014. Also that year, she was one of the victims of the iCloud leaks of celebrity photos when dozens of self-photographed nude pictures of her were leaked online. Lawrence emphasized that the images were never meant to go public; she called the leak a "sex crime" and a "sexual violation". She added that viewers of the images should be ashamed of their part in a sexual offense. The actress later stated that her pictures were intended for Hoult, and that unlike other victims of the hack, she did not plan to sue Apple. As of 2014, Lawrence lives in Beverly Hills, California.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Garden Party	Tiffany "Tiff"
2008	The Poker House	Agnes
2008	The Burning Plain	Mariana
2010	Winter's Bone	Ree Dolly
2011	Like Crazy	Sam
2011	The Beaver	Norah
2011	X-Men: First Class	Raven Darkhölme / Mystique
2012	The Hunger Games	Katniss Everdeen
2012	Silver Linings Playbook	Tiffany Maxwell
2012	House at the End of the Street	Elissa Cassidy
2013	The Devil You Know[63]	Young Zoe Hughes	Filmed in 2005
2013	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Katniss Everdeen
2013	American Hustle	Rosalyn Rosenfeld
2014	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Raven Darkhölme / Mystique
2014	Serena	Serena Pemberton
2014	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1	Katniss Everdeen
2015	Dior and I	Herself	Documentary
2015	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2	Katniss Everdeen
2015	Joy	Joy Mangano
2016	A Beautiful Planet	Narrator	Documentary
2016	X-Men: Apocalypse	Raven Darkhölme / Mystique
2016	Passengers	Aurora Lane
2017	Mother!	mother
2018	Red Sparrow	Dominika Egorova
2019	Dark Phoenix	Raven Darkhölme / Mystique	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Monk	Mascot	Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Big Game"
2007	Cold Case	Abby Bradford	Episode: "A Dollar, a Dream"
2007–2008	Medium	Claire Chase	Episodes: "Mother's Little Helper" "But for the Grace of God"
2007–2009	The Bill Engvall Show	Lauren Pearson	31 episodes
2013	Saturday Night Live	Herself (host)	Episode: "Jennifer Lawrence/The Lumineers"
2017	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Herself (host)	Episode: "November 2, 2017"

Music video

Year	Title	Artist
2010	"The Mess I Made"	Parachute