Jennifer Lawrence was born on 15th August 1990 is an American film
and television actress. She has had lead roles in TBS's The Bill Engvall
Show and in the independent films The Burning Plain and Winter's Bone,
for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination
for Best Actress.
She
was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Karen, who
runs a children's camp, and Gary Lawrence, who once owned a concrete
construction firm, Lawrence and Associates. She acted in church plays
and, by the age of 14, had decided to pursue an acting career,
persuading her parents to take her to New York City to find a talent
agent.
She
starred in Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut The Burning Plain,
opposite Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger. Her performance in the film
earned her the Marcello Mastroianni Award for best young emerging
actor/actress during the Venice Film Festival in 2008.She was part of
the main cast of the TBS comedy The Bill Engvall Show as Lauren Pearson.
She
has been cast as Katniss Everdeen in the movie The Hunger Games, set to
be released in March 2012.On June 18, 2011, it was announced that
Lawrence was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences alongside other actors and actresses that include Mila Kunis,
Russell Brand, Bradley Cooper, and her Winter's Bone co-star John
Hawkes.
