Jennifer lawrence biography
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Jennifer Lawrence Height, Age, Husband, Children, Family, Biography
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TV: Company Town () as 'Caitlin'
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Breakout Performance for the film 'The Burning Plain' at the 65th Venice International Film Festival
Best Ensemble Performance award for the film 'Winter's Bone' at the 20th Gotham Independent Film Awards
Best Breakthrough Performance award for 'Winter's Bone' at the 82nd National Board of Review Awards
New Hollywood Award for 'Winter's Bone' at the 14th Hollywood Film
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Jennifer Lawrence
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| Born | Jennifer Shrader Lawrence () August 15, (age&#;34) Indian Hills, Kentucky, USA |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years&#;active | –present |
| Height | &#;cm (5&#;ft 9&#;in) |
| Spouse | Cooke Maroney &#; (m.&#;)&#; |
| Awards | Full list |
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, ) is an American actress. She appeared in Time's list of most influential people in the world in , and has won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, among other accolades.
Lawrence first became known for appearing on The Bill Engvall Show (–), and had her breakthrough with Winter's Bone (). She went on to starring roles in the X-Men film series (–) and The Hunger Games film series (–), and is the highest-grossing action heroine. She won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her work in Silver Linings
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As the highest-paid actress in the world in and , and with her films grossing over $ billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the s to have won an acting Oscar.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born August 15, , in Louisville, Kentucky, to Karen (Koch), who manages a children's camp, and Gary Lawrence, who works in construction. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine, and has English, German, Irish, and Scottish ancestry.
Her career began when she traveled to Manhattan at the age of fourteen after dropping out of the 8th grade. After conducting her first cold read, agents told her mother that "it was the best cold read by a year-old they had ever heard," and tried to convince her stage mother that she needed to spend the summer in Manhattan. After leaving the agency, Jennifer was spotted by an agent in the midst of shooting an H&M ad and asked to take her picture.