Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence: Biography in Details

Who is Jennifer Lawrence?

Jennifer Lawrence is an American actress. Jennifer Lawrence is best known for playing Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film franchise. She is also widely known for portraying Raven Darkhölme / Mystique in the X-Men film series.

In 2013, she won the “Academy Award for Best Actress” for her role as Tiffany Maxwell in the film Silver Linings Playbook. Since 2015, Lawrence has been the highest-paid actress in the world.

Who are the parents of Jennifer Lawrence?

Jennifer was born on 15 August 1990, in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Her full name is Jennifer Shrader Lawrence. She is the daughter of Gary Lawrence and Karen Lawrence.

Her father is a construction worker and her mother is a summer camp manager. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine.

Her nationality is American and she belongs to English, German, Irish, Scottish, and French ethnicity.

She gained an education at the Kammerer Middle School in Louisville. Jennifer did not enjoy her childhood due to hyperactivity and social anxiety and considered herself a misfit among her peers. She was a cheerleader at school.

Jennifer Lawrence was fond of horseback riding while growing up and frequently visited a local horse farm.

During a family vacation to New York at the age of 14, she was spotted on the street by a talent scout who arranged for her to audition for agents. Her mother was not keen on allowing her to pursue an acting career.

Jennifer Lawrence: Career, Net Worth, Salary

Jennifer 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). After that, she was cast as a series regular on the TBS sitcom

After that, she was cast as a series regular on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007-2009), in which she played Lauren Pearson.

For her role in the series, she won a “Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young Performer in a TV Series” for the role in 2009. Since then, she has appeared in a number of movies and a few TV series.

She achieved wider recognition for playing the mutant Mystique in X-Men: First Class (2011). She later reprised the role in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). Lawrence has won several awards in her career.

In 2012, Jennifer played the role of Tiffany Maxwell in the film Silver Linings Playbook. She won an “Academy Award for Best Actress” for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook (2012).

Her fame continued to grow with her starring role as Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), which established her as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time.

She also won a “BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role” for playing a troubled wife in the black comedy American Hustle (2013). Lawrence was ranked #1 in Ask men’s top 99 “most desirable” famous women of 2013 list.

Since 2015, Lawrence has been the highest-paid actress in the world, and her films have grossed over $5.5 billion worldwide. She appeared in Time’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2013 and Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2014 and 2016.

Lawrence played the character Aurora Lane in the 2016 American science fiction film Passengers. For her role in the movie, she earned a nomination for The Saturn Awards for Best Actress.

She has a net worth of 130 million dollars. But her salary and other incomes are not disclosed.

Is Jennifer Lawrence involved in any rumors and controversies?

In 2016, Lawrence retold a story about filming “The Hunger Games” that was found culturally insensitive while she appeared on The Graham Norton Show.

The actress said that she sat on culturally sacred rocks after the crew warned her not to, but she did not listen to their orders and explained how she rubbed her butt on them to relieve an itch, pulling one of the rocks loose, which almost killed a sound person when it rolled down the mountain.

Later, Jennifer Lawrence apologized via a post on her Facebook page.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight, Body Size

Jennifer Lawrence is 5 Feet and 9 Inches tall. She weighs 63 kg. Her body size is 35-26-36 inches, while her bra size is 32C.

She has an athletic body and blue eyes and blonde hair color. Her shoe size is 10.5 (US) and her dress size is 6 (US).

Social Media

Jennifer Lawrence is active on social media sites like Instagram but she is not active on Facebook and Twitter. She has around 108k followers on Instagram.

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