Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. The world's highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016, her films have grossed over $6 billion worldwide to date. She appeared in Time's 100 most influential people in the world list in 2013 and the Forbes Celebrity 100 list from 2013 to 2016.
During her childhood, Lawrence performed in church plays and school musicals. At 14, she was spotted by a talent scout while vacationing in New York City with her family. She moved to Los Angeles and began her acting career in guest roles on television. Her first major role was that of a main cast member on the sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009). She made her film debut in a supporting role in the drama Garden Party (2008), and had her breakthrough playing Ree Dolly, a poverty-stricken teenage girl, in the coming-of-age independent mystery drama Winter's Bone (2010). Lawrence's career progressed with starring roles as the mutant Mystique in the X-Men film series (2011–2019) and Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015). The latter made her the highest-grossing action heroine of all time.
Lawrence has received a number of accolades for various films, including her three collaborations with filmmaker David O. Russell. Her performance as a young widow with an unnamed mental disorder in the romance film Silver Linings Playbook (2012) won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the second-youngest Best Actress winner at 22. She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing an unpredictable wife in the black comedy American Hustle (2013). Lawrence also received Golden Globe Awards for both of these films, and for her portrayal of businesswoman Joy Mangano in the biopic Joy (2015). A series of negatively reviewed films, including Passengers (2016) and Red Sparrow (2018), and the subsequent media scrutiny of her choices of roles led to a small break from acting. She returned in 2021 with the satirical black comedy Don't Look Up. In 2022 and 2023, she produced and starred in the drama film Causeway and the romantic comedy film No Hard Feelings respectively.
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Primarily2025 Die My Love as Grace Producer
2025 Mob Girl as Arlyne Brickman Producer
2025 Burial Rites as Agnes Magnúsdóttir Producer
2025 Sue as Sue Mengers Producer
2025 Why Don't You Love Me? as Claire Producer
2025 The Wives Producer
2025 Wick Is Pain as (archive footage)
2024 Bread & Roses Producer
2024 Zurawski v Texas Executive Producer
2024 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special as Self (archive footage)
2023 No Hard Feelings as Maddie Barker Producer
2023 Hollywood's Hard Hitters: Women in Action as Self
2022 Causeway as Lynsey Producer
2021 Don't Look Up as Kate Dibiasky
2019 Love, Antosha as Self
2019 Dark Phoenix as Raven Darkholme / Mystique
2019 Unbreaking America as Self Writer
2018 Red Sparrow as Dominika Egorova
2017 mother! The Downward Spiral as Self
2017 mother! as Mother
2017 100 Years as Narrator (voice)
2016 Passengers as Aurora Lane
2016 David Blaine: Beyond Magic as Self
2016 X-Men: Apocalypse as Raven / Mystique
2016 A Beautiful Planet as Narrator (voice)
2016 Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 as Self (Katniss Everdeen)
2015 Joy as Joy
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Katniss Everdeen
2015 The Hunger Games: The Phenomenon as Self
2015 Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman as Self
2015 The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self (Katniss Everdeen)
2015 Dior and I as self
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Katniss Everdeen
2014 Serena as Serena Pemberton
2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past as Raven / Mystique
2014 Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self (Katniss Everdeen)
2013 American Hustle as Rosalyn Rosenfeld
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Katniss Everdeen
2013 The Devil You Know as Young Zoe
2012 Wide-Awake as The Snake Charmer
2012 Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell
2012 House at the End of the Street as Elissa Cassidy
2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self (Katniss Everdeen)
2012 The Hunger Games as Katniss Everdeen
2011 Like Crazy as Sam
2011 Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2011 X-Men: First Class as Raven / Mystique
2011 The Beaver as Norah
2010 14 Actors Acting as Self
2010 The Making of 'Winter's Bone' as Self
2010 Winter's Bone as Ree Dolly
2008 The Burning Plain as Young Mariana
2008 Garden Party as Tiff
2008 The Poker House as Agnes