Jennifer Lawrence

Actresses

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Lawrence is known for starring in both action film franchises and independent dramas, and her films have grossed over $6 billion worldwide. The world’s highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016, she appeared in Time’s 100 most influential people in the world list in 2013 and the Forbes Celebrity 100 list from 2013 to 2016. She’s won various accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA, 3 Golden Globes, and a SAG Award.

Lawrence began her career as a teenager with guest roles on television. Her first major role was as a main cast member on the sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009), with Bill Engvall, Nancy Travis, Steve Hytner, Graham Patrick Martin, Skyler Gisondo, and Tim Meadows. She made her film debut in Garden Party (2008), with Vinessa Shaw and Willa Holland. Other early films include Lori Petty’s The Poker House (2008), with Selma Blair, Chloë Grace Moretz, Bokeem Woodbine, David Allan Grier, Danielle Campbell, Sophi Bairley, and Casey Tutton; and Guillermo Arriaga’s The Burning Plain (2009), with Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, and Joaquim de Almeida.

She received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone (2010), with John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Sheryl Lee, and Tate Taylor. Other notable films around this time include Drake Doremus’s Like Crazy (2011), with Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones; and The Beaver (2011), with Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster (who also directed), and Yelchin.

She gained worldwide stardom portraying the mutant Mystique in the X-Men film series (2011–2019), collectively with James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Jason Flemyng, Lucas Till, Edi Gathegi, Caleb Landry Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Elliot Page, Peter Dinklage, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Evan Peters, Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn,Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alexandra Shipp, and Jessica Chastain; and Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), collectively with Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Toby Jones, Jenna Malone, Julianne Moore, Mahershala Ali, and Natalie Dormer. The latter made her the highest-grossing action heroine.

She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook (2012), with Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Anupam Kher, Chris Tucker, John Ortiz, and Julia Stiles. She would be nominated for Best Supporting Actress for American Hustle (2013), with Christian Bale, Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Louis C.K., Michael Peña, and Alessandro Nivola; and Best Actress again for Joy (2015), with De Niro, Édgar Ramírez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, Isabella Rossellini, and Cooper. The latter two were also directed by Russell.

Other films in the 2010s include House at the End of the Street (2012), with Max Thieriot, Gil Bellows, and Elisabeth Shue; The Devil You Know (2013), with Lena Olin and Rosamund Pike; Serena (2014), with Cooper, Rhys Ifans, Jones, David Dencik, Sean Harris, and Ana Ularu; Morten Tyldum’s Passengers (2016), with Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, and Andy García; Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! (2017), with Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, and Kristen Wiig; and Red Sparrow (2019), with Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jeremy Irons.

Films in the 2020s include Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up (2021), with Leonardo DiCaprio, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey, Cate Blanchett, and Meryl Streep; Causeway (2022), with Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Jayne Houdyshell, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Russell Harvard; Gene Stupnitsky’s No Hard Feelings (2023), with Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti, Matthew Broderick, Natalie Morales, and Scott MacArthur.

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  • Garden Party (2008) – directed by Jason Freeland
  • The Poker House (2008) – directed by Lori Petty
  • The Burning Plain (2009) – directed by Guillermo Arriaga
  • Winter’s Bone (2010) – directed by Debra Granik
  • Like Crazy (2011) – directed by Drake Doremus
  • The Beaver (2011) – directed by Jodie Foster
  • X-Men: First Class (2011)* – directed by Matthew Vaughn
  • The Hunger Games (2012) – directed by Gary Ross
  • Silver Linings Playbook (2012) – directed by David O. Russell
  • House at the End of the Street (2012) – directed by Mark Tonderai
  • The Devil You Know (2013) – directed by James Oakley
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)* – directed by Francis Lawrence
  • American Hustle (2013) – directed by David O. Russell
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)* directed by Bryan Singer
  • Serena (2014) – directed by Susanne Bier
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) – directed by Francis Lawrence
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015) – directed by Francis Lawrence
  • Joy (2015) – directed by David O. Russell
  • A Beautiful Planet (2016) – directed by Toni Myers – narrator – documentary
  • X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)* – directed by Bryan Singer
  • Passengers (2016) – directed by Morten Tyldum
  • Mother! (2017)* – directed by Darren Aronofsky
  • Red Sparrow (2018) – directed by Francis Lawrence
  • X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) – directed by Simon Kinberg
  • Don’t Look Up (2021) – directed by Adam McKay
  • Causeway (2022) – directed by Lila Neugebauer – also producer
  • Bread and Roses (2023) – directed by Sahra Mani – documentary – producer
  • No Hard Feelings (2023) – directed by Gene Stupnitsky – also producer