Jennifer Lawrence Biography

Birth Name: Jennifer Shrader Lawrence

Birth Place: Louisville, KY

Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 08/15/1990, Leo

Height : 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Profession: Actress

Jennifer Lawrence Relationships:

Karen Lawrence - Mother

Gary Lawrence - Father

Ben Lawrence - Brother

Blaine Lawrence - Brother

Jennifer Lawrence was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She has 2 older brothers, Ben and Blaine, sister-in-law Meredith, and her parents are Gary and Karen Lawrence.

Jennifer, known to her friends and family as "Jen", was discovered in New York City at the age of 14. Before Jennifer became an actor, she was involved in cheer-leading, field hockey, softball, and modeling, none of which she held a passion for.

In the spring of 2004, she traveled to New York City and set up a few auditions with talent and modeling agencies. After conducting her first cold read, the agents told her mother that "it was the best cold read by a 14- year-old they had ever heard", and tried to convince her mother that she needed to spend the summer in Manhattan. After leaving the agency, Jen was spotted by an agent in the midst of shooting an H&M ad and asked to take her picture. The next day, that agent followed up with her and invited her to the studio for a cold read audition. Again, the agents were highly impressed and strongly urged her mother to allow her to spend the summer in New York City.

Jennifer Lawrence started her acting career in 2006 with the made for TV movie Company Town. After a few other TV show and movie appearances (Cold Case, Medium & Monk, Not Another High School Show) Jennifer Lawrence finally landed her big break with the TV series The Bill Engvall Show. She continued playing as Lauren Pearson on The Bill Engvall Show for three seasons (2007-2009). Jennifer Lawrence won a Young Artist Award for her acting on The Bill Engvall Show.

Television was not enough for Jennifer Lawrence however, she rapidly moved on to THE BIG SCREEN. Since then we have had the pleasure of seeing her perform in several movies, some of which she has even starred as the main role!

In 2008 we had the pleasure of seeing Jennifer Lawrence in three films. First she played a minor role as “Tiff” on the drama film Garden Party. The film was directed by Jason Freeland and starring Vinessa Shaw and Willa Holland. Garden Party was filmed in Los Angeles, California. The film was released on July 11, 2008 in the United States. After that Jennifer Lawrence was the lead role in Lori Petty’s The Poker House opposite Selma Blair and Bokeem Woodbine. Her performance in the film earned her the Outstanding Performance Award from the Los Angeles Film Festival. Jennifer Lawrence also starred in Guillermo Arriaga’s directorial debut The Burning Plain, opposite Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger. Jennifer Lawrence’s impressive performance in the film The Burning Plain earned her the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Emerging Actor/Actress during the Venice Film Festival in 2008.

In 2009 Jennifer Lawrence played a small role as Young Zoe in the movie Devil You Know. This movie has yet to be released. I personally emailed the producer and he has hopes that it will be picked up at some point.

2010 was the year that Jennifer Lawrence became a household name. It was a busy year for Jennifer Lawrence as she starred in the lead role (Ree Dolly) in Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone. The film screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 as a 17 year old girl in the rural Ozarks caring for her mentally-ill mother and her younger brother and sister when she discovers that her father put their house and land up as a bond for a court appearance he failed to appear at. Winter’s Bone won both the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Film award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Jennifer Lawrence was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in Winter’s Bone. Sadly the award went to Natalie Portman but I’m sure she will be nominated many more times with her tremendous acting talent.

Jennifer Lawrence has continued her great career by starring in her first sci-fi movie X-Men: First Class. Lawrence performs as Mystique. a shapeshifter who can mimic other people, though she cannot replicate superpowers. Jennifer co-starred next to James McAvoy (Professor Charles Xavier), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Nicholas Hoult, Alice Eve, and Caleb Landry Jones among others. Jennifer Lawrence also played as Porter’s girlfriend in The Beaver, a dark comedy based on an original script by neophyte screenwriter Kyle Killen. The film is directed by Jodie Foster and stars Mel Gibson, Anton Yelchin, and Foster. The Beaver follows a depressed CEO of a toy company (Mel Gibson) who dons a beaver handpuppet to better communicate with his wife (Jodie Foster) and his two sons (Anton Yelchin, Riley Thomas Stewart).