The goalkeeper of The Hunger Games begins a new stage as a producer. She knows how she started her career and the projects she will be on behind the camera.
At 22 years old, Jennifer Lawrence became the second youngest artist to be awarded the Oscar for Best Actress. An award she won on one of her many occasions where she has taken her physicality to the extreme to play a character. Directors have described Lawrence as the epitome of a well-rounded actress, someone who can be vulnerable, funny, rude and vibrant in the same scene. It was this ability that comes from bringing her natural qualities to acting, that this actress has positioned herself among the most influential in Hollywood.
The star of the Hunger Games saga, J. Law, as her friends and media call her, grew up riding horses and playing sports on the boys' teams at her school in Kentucky. She spent her childhood making homemade music for her father and performing in her church plays. She was discovered by her agent during a family trip to New York, who asked to take a photo of her and a contact number. It only took a couple of hours for her, on her mother's phone, to receive the call that would change the life of the girl who she thought would never find her calling. Jennifer Lawrence was signed by an agency on the condition that they also let her audition for acting, and she spent the summer in New York with her mother auditioning. The agency flew Jennifer and her family to California, where she did her first screen test for The Bill Engvall Show, her first acting experience.
Her participation in the television series led her to get roles in movies like The Burning Plain, where she appears with Charlize Theron, later achieving recognition for her with her performance in Winter's Bone. At her young age, this actress secured two of the highest-grossing film franchises, X-Men and The Hunger Games, demonstrating her capacity for consistency and, at halftime, taking on roles that brought out her potential to walk through drama, comedy and science fiction. With a newly founded production house the actress is now looking to put herself on both sides of the camera, Jennifer Lawrence will appear in Red, White and Water, a new project in which she stars and starts producing.
Who is Jennifer Lawrence?
Jennifer Lawrence is an American actress, winner of the Oscar for Best Actress, and part of the Forbes 100 most influential people list. She is recognized for her portrayals in such films as Silver Linings Playbook (2012), American Hustle (2013), and The Hunger Games series. This actress has her own foundation, and a film production company that she formed in 2018.
Where is Jennifer Lawrence from?
Jennifer Lawrence is from Indian Hills, Kentucky. During her time at school she was on a boys' basketball team, horseback riding, and was part of her school's cheerleading squad. At age 14, during a trip to New York with her family, she was discovered by an agent who encouraged her to audition, and despite her mother preferring her to pursue a modeling career, she later moved with her family to Manhattan. to audition.
Where does Jennifer Lawrence live?
Jennifer Lawrence lives between New York and Los Angeles. In California, the actress lives in a house located in the Beverly Hills neighborhood, purchased for $8 million in 2014. In the Big Apple, she has a three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment in Tribeca, which she bought for $9 million. dollars, and where she lives with her husband, art impresario Cooke Maroney.
How old is Jennifer Lawrence?
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990, the daughter of Gary Lawrence, a construction company owner, and Karen Koch, a summer camp manager. The actress has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine Lawrence.
What are Jennifer Lawrence's most famous movies?
Jennifer Lawrence's film debut was with the film Garden Party in 2008, followed by her appearance in Mexican director Guillermo Arriaga's film The Burning Plain (2008). She began to gain recognition with the film Winter's Bone (2010), in which she plays Ree Dolly, a teenager searching for her lost father, and she was first nominated for an Oscar for Best actress. Her first high-profile production was X-Men: First Class (2011) part of the Marvel Saga film series. She was chosen to play the role of the mutant Mystique in this film that was the highest grossing of its year.
In 2012, she was chosen to play the role of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012), the first part of a saga based on the novels by Suzanne Collins. Jennifer Lawrence plays in this film the role of a heroine who fights against a totalitarian government, a role that made her the highest paid woman in a heroine role, and gave her position in Hollywood. Later the same year, her Jennifer was in Silver Linings Playbook (2012), in which she appears alongside Bradley Cooper. This role gave her her first Oscar award at just 22 years old, making her the youngest woman to win the award in the category. She appeared the following year reprising her role as Katniss in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), her second most successful film at the box office. The same year she was opposite Christian Bale and Amy Adams in the crime film American Hustle (2013). Her first film of 2014 was X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) in which she returned in the role of Mystique.
Jennifer was reunited with Bradley Cooper to star in the film Serena (2014), based on the novel by writer Ron Rash, appearing later the same year in the remake of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014), and the year next in the final part of the series, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015). In 2015 she starred in the movie Joy (2015) playing the role of Joy Mangano, and the following year she lent her voice to narrate the documentary A Beautiful Planet (2016). She played the role of Mystique for the third time in the film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and was in the sci-fi romance Passengers (2016) opposite Chris Pratt. Another of her most important roles has been in Darren Aronofsky's psychological drama, Mother (2017), the first role for which Jennifer was rehearsing for several months prior to filming.
Her latest film appearances include her role as a Russian spy in the movie Red Sparrow (2018), for which she had to learn to speak Russian and take ballet lessons for four months, and her last appearance as Mystique in Dark Phoenix ( 2019). Jennifer will next appear in Red, White and Water, a film on which she will also produce, and she will be in the Netflix film Don't Look Up, opposite Cate Blanchett.
