Jennifer Lawrence (1990)

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Jennifer Lawrence
General Information
Birth Name	Jennifer Shrader Lawrence
Gender	Female
Birth Place	Louisville, Kentucky
Birth Date	August 15, 1990
Occupation	Actress
Years Active	2006 to Present

Filmography

• Monk (2006) 1 episode
• Company Town (2006)
• Cold Case (2007) 1 episode
• Not Another High School Show (2007)
• Medium (2007-08) 2 episodes
• The Bill Engvall Show (2007-09) series regular
• Garden Party (2008)
• The Poker House (2008)
• The Burning Plain (2008)
• Winter's Bone (2010)
• Like Crazy (2011)
• The Beaver (2011)
• X-Men: First Class (2011)
• The Hunger Games (2012)
• House at the End of the Street (2012)
• Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
• The Devil You Know (2013)
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
• American Hustle (2013)
• Saturday Night Live (2013) 1 episode
• Serena (2014)
• X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
• Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
• Joy (2015)
• X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
• Passengers (2016)
• Mother! (2017)
• Red Sparrow (2018)
• Dark Phoenix (2019)
• Don't Look Up (2021)
• No Hard Feelings (2023)

Trivia

• For her role in Winter's Bone (2010), she learned to skin squirrels, chop wood, and fight.
• Lawrence was discovered by a photographer while visiting New York with her mother in 2005, which led to her landing an agent.
• Named one of People magazine's Most Beautiful People in the World (2011).
• Ranked #10 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2011 list.
• Ranked #47 in Ask men's top 99 "most desirable" women of 2012.
• For her role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012), she worked out twice a day and practiced archery.
• Ranked #1 in Ask men's top 99 "most desirable" famous women of 2013 list.
• Brought her parents as her date to the 70th Golden Globe Awards after breaking up with her boyfriend Nicholas Hoult (1989).
• By age 23, she became the youngest actress to be nominated for three Oscars, including two of them for leading role, one of which she won.
• Named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World (2013).
• Her love of Doritos chips caused her to stain several dresses while on the set of American Hustle (2013), nearly ruining them in the process. The wardrobe department solved this problem by creating a number of identical dresses for her to use throughout the production so she would always have a clean one to wear.
• Ranked #5 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2014 list.
• Auditioned for the role of Bella Swan in Twilight (2008), but lost to Kristen Stewart (1990).
• Revealed during an appearance on Watch What Happens: Live (2009) in December 2015, that she has kissed her co-star Liam Hemsworth (1990) off-camera. She also admitted in the same interview to smoking pot with her brother before attending The Oscars.
• According to Forbes she was the highest paid actress for 2015 and 2016.
• Third highest paid actress of 2017 with $24 million.
• Is a supporter of Planned Parenthood for its support in contraception and female health care, namely to teenagers.
• She is left-handed.
• Auditioned for the role of Olive in Easy A (2010) but lost to Emma Stone (1988).

Quotes

• I'm excited to be seen as sexy. But not slutty.
• There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself.
• I have this feeling of protectiveness over characters I want to play. I worry about them - if someone else gets the part, I'm afraid they won't do it right; they'll make the character a victim or they'll make her a villain or they'll just get it wrong somehow.
• I never felt like I completely, 100% understood something so well as acting.
• I'd like to direct at some point. But I don't know because 10 years ago I would have never imagined that I'd be here. So in 10 years from now, I might be running a rodeo.
• I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds... I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life.
• A lot of people said, "Oh, now we have a great actress come along and she's showing her boobs." But that's exactly what I had to do so I could keep working.
• It's always been about the script and the director, for me. There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that. I like to adapt to a director's way of working. I love doing that. Each director is so different, and you have to adapt to this new way of doing something. That's what's amazing to me. That's why I love directors. I don't want the director to have to work around me. I think it's more fun for me to come in on their thing.
• I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.
• The best birthday present I ever received was a T-shirt my friend had made that said "I passed out in Disneyland '07" (I had heat stroke in Disneyland).
• I am just a normal girl and a human being, and I haven't been in this long enough to feel like this is my new normal.
• My parents saw me so truly happy that they sacrificed everything for my happiness. Without my family, I would be nothing.
• I dropped out of middle school. I don't technically have a GED or a diploma. I am self-educated.