Meet the Star of the Hunger Games Franchise

When it comes to Katniss Everdeen, Jennifer Lawrence has become the go-to actress. Jennifer is a young and talented American actress. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky on August 15th, 1990. Her career began at an early age when she landed roles in independent films. She got her first big break when she starred in the television series The Bill Engvall Show (2007).

She has been nominated three times for a Golden Globe Award, winning once for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and has also received three Academy Award nominations, winning one for Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook.

She is best known for playing Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), which established her as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. She will reprise her role as Mystique in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and will star as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow in Captain America: Civil War (2016). Lawrence was born on August 15th, 1990, in Louisville, Kentucky.

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Her films have grossed over $5.5 billion worldwide, and she was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016. 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.

Lawrence is known for playing protagonist Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), a role that established her as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. She also won three Golden Globe Awards for her roles in the two aforementioned films and for starring as Joy Mangano in Joy (2015). Her other film roles include Winter’s Bone (2010), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), The House at the End of the Street (2012), X-Men: First Class (2011), American Hustle, and Passengers (both 2016).

In 2015, she founded the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation through which she supports various charitable organizations.

Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen in the upcoming movie “The Hunger Games”. Here, she is pictured at the premiere of the film. Read more about her here:

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Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Her first major role was as a lead cast member on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009). She appeared in the independent dramas Winter’s Bone (2010) and The Burning Plain (2008), for which she received her first nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actress, respectively.

Lawrence subsequently won the annual BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2011 and established herself with roles in X-Men: First Class (2011), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), and David O. Russell’s romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook (2012). She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Tiffany Maxwell in the romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook (2012).

Lawrence gained international fame playing heroine Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games film series, which established her as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. She went on to earn accolades for her collaborations with director David O. Russell on the crime drama American Hustle (2013) and the comic-book adaptation Joy (2015). Lawrence has also appeared in Time’s

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Her first major role was as a lead cast member on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007–09). She went on to star in the films The Burning Plain (2008) and Winter’s Bone (2010), for which she received nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Satellite Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.

Lawrence’s performance as a depressed young widow in the romance film Silver Linings Playbook (2012) earned her numerous accolades, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Satellite Award, and Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress. She also received Golden Globe nominations for her roles in the romantic drama Like Crazy (2011) and the comedy American Hustle (2013).

In 2014, Lawrence starred as Katniss Everdeen in the sci-fi adventure film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. She reprised the role for the final time in 2015 with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. In 2015, she portrayed Joy Mangano in David O. Russell’s biopic Joy co-starring Robert De Niro and Bradley

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 14. During the trip she met with a talent scout who arranged for her to audition for talent agencies in New York City. She had been bitten by the acting bug long before this however; as early as age 9 Lawrence had performed in local theater productions and school plays. Once she arrived in New York she quickly signed with CESD Talent Agency and soon landed a role playing Lauren Pearson on The Bill Engvall Show (2007). She starred on the show for three seasons before it was cancelled in 2009. She went on to appear in such feature films as Winter’s Bone (2010) and X-Men: First Class (2011) before winning the coveted lead role of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012). In 2013 she co-starred alongside Bradley Cooper in David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook (2012) as Tiffany Maxwell. Her performance earned her Academy Award and Golden Globe

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Since 2015, Lawrence has been the highest-paid actress in the world, and her films have grossed over $5.5 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. During her childhood, she performed in church plays and school musicals. At age 14, she was spotted by a talent scout while vacationing in New York City with her family. She 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 (2007–2009). She made her film debut with a supporting role in Garden Party (2008), and had her breakthrough playing a poverty-stricken teenager in the independent drama Winter’s Bone (2010). Her career progressed with starring roles as the mutant Mystique in X-Men: First Class (2011), Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), and Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook (2012); all of which were both critical and commercial successes.