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The films she has acted in have
grossed over $6 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.
During her childhood, Lawrence 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. Lawrence 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). Lawrence made her film debut in a supporting role in the
drama Garden Party (2008), and had her breakthrough playing a
poverty-stricken teenager in the independent drama Winter's Bone (2010).
Her career progressed with her starring roles as the mutant Mystique in
the X-Men film series (2011–2019) and Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games
film series (2012–2015). The latter established her as the
highest-grossing action heroine of all time.
Lawrence went on to earn accolades for her collaborations with director
David O. Russell. Her performance as a depressed young widow in the
romance film Silver Linings Playbook (2012) earned her the Academy Award
for Best Actress, making her the second-youngest winner of the award. She
subsequently won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for
playing a troubled wife in the black comedy American Hustle (2013).
Lawrence also received Golden Globe Awards for both of these films, and
for portraying Joy Mangano in the biopic Joy (2015). She has since starred
in the science fiction romance Passengers (2016), the psychological horror
film Mother! (2017), and the spy thriller Red Sparrow (2018).
Lawrence is an outspoken feminist and has advocated for Planned
Parenthood. In 2015, she founded the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation, which
has advocated for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Special
Olympics. She formed the production company Excellent Cadaver in 2018. |
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