Jennifer Shrader Lawrence born August 15, 1990 is an American film and television actress. Jennifer Lawrence 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 recently cast as Katniss Everdeen in the upcoming film, The Hunger Games, which is based on the first book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.
Lawrence 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. Jennifer Lawrence acted in church plays and, by the age of 14, had decided to pursue an acting career, persuading Jennifer Lawrence parents to take her to New York City to find a talent agent. Although she had no training or experience, she received high praise from the agency for which she auditioned. She graduated from high school two years early in order to begin a career in acting.
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