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Lawrences fame continued to grow with her starring role as Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games film series 2. She went on to earn various accolades for her collaborations with director David O. Russell. Her performance as a depressed and bipolar widow in the romance film Silver Linings Playbook 2. Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the second youngest winner of the award. Lawrence subsequently won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing a troubled wife in the black comedy American Hustle 2. She also received Golden Globe Awards for her roles in each of these films, and for her performance as Joy Mangano in the biopic Joy 2. Lawrence is known in the media as an advocate for feminism and gender equality. She is the founder of the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation, through which she supports various charitable organizations. Early life. Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on August 1. Indian Hills, Kentucky, to Gary, a construction worker, and Karen ne Koch, a summer camp manager. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine,2 and her mother brought her up to be tough like them. Lawrences mother did not allow her to play with other girls in preschool as she deemed her too rough with them. The actress was educated at the Kammerer Middle School in Louisville. She did not enjoy her childhood due to hyperactivity and social anxiety, and considered herself a misfit among her peers. Lawrence has said that her anxieties vanished when she performed on stage, and that acting gave her a sense of accomplishment. A cheerleader at school, Lawrence also played softball, field hockey and basketball, which she played on a boys team that her father coached. She was fond of horseback riding while growing up and frequently visited a local horse farm. She has a damaged coccyx from being thrown off a horse. The actress has said that she knew she would be famous from an early age. When her father worked from home, she performed for him, often dressing up as a clown or ballerina. Her first acting assignment was at the age of nine with the role of a prostitute in a church play based on the Book of Jonah. For the next few years, she continued to take parts in church plays and school musicals. During a family vacation to New York when Lawrence was 1. Lawrences mother was not keen on allowing her to pursue an acting career, but briefly moved to the city to let her read for roles. After Lawrences first cold reading, the agents said that hers was the best they had heard from someone that young Lawrences mother convinced her that they were lying. Lawrence said her early experiences were difficult as she felt lonely and friendless. She signed on with the CESD Talent Agency, who convinced her parents to let her audition for roles in Los Angeles. Lawrences mother agreed to let her pursue acting on the condition that she graduate from high school. Lawrence was eventually home schooled in Los Angeles, and graduated two years early with good grades. Considering acting to be a natural fit for her, she turned down several offers for modelling assignments at the time. Between her acting jobs in the city, she made regular visits to Louisville, during which she served as an assistant nurse at her mothers camp. Career. 20. 062. Career beginnings and breakthrough. Lawrence began her acting career with a minor role in the television film Company Town 2. She followed it with guest roles in several television shows, including Monk 2. Medium 2. 00. 7. 1. These parts led to her being cast as a series regular on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show, in which she played Lauren, the rebellious teenage daughter of a family living in suburban Louisville, Colorado. The series premiered in 2. Tom Shales of The Washington Post considered her a scene stealer in her part, and David Hinckley of the New York Daily News wrote that she was successful in delivering the perpetual exasperation of teenage girls. Lawrence won a Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young Performer in a TV Series for the role in 2. Lawrence made her film debut in the 2. Garden Party, in which she played a troubled teenager named Tiff. She then appeared in director Guillermo Arriagas feature film debut The Burning Plain 2. She was cast as the teenage daughter of Kim Basingers character who discovers her mothers extramarital affaira role she shared with Charlize Theron both actresses portrayed the role at different stages of the characters life. Mark Feeney for The Boston Globe thought of Lawrences performance as a thankless task, but Derek Elley from Variety praised her as the productions prime asset, writing that she plumbs fresher depths into the film. Her performance earned her the Premio Marcello Mastroianni award for Best Emerging Actress at the Venice Film Festival. Also that year, she appeared in the music video for the song The Mess I Made by Parachute. The following year, she starred in Lori Pettys drama The Poker House as the oldest of three sisters living with a drug abusing mother. Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter thought that Lawrence has a touching poise on camera that conveys the resilience of children, and her role in The Poker House won an Outstanding Performance award from the Los Angeles Film Festival. Lawrences breakthrough role came in the small scale drama Winters Bone 2. Daniel Woodrells novel of the same name. In Debra Graniks independent feature, she portrayed Ree Dolly, a poverty stricken teenager in the Ozark Mountains who cares for her mentally ill mother and younger siblings while searching for her missing father. Lawrence traveled to the Ozarks a week before filming began to live with the family on whom the story was based, and in preparation, she learned to fight, skin squirrels, and chop wood. David Denby of The New Yorker said the film would be unimaginable with anyone less charismatic,2. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that her performance is more than acting, its a gathering storm. Lawrences eyes are a roadmap to whats tearing Ree apart. The production won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The actress was awarded the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance, and with her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, she became the second youngest person to be nominated in the category. Film series and awards success. In 2. 01. 1, Lawrence took on a supporting role in Like Crazy, a romantic drama about long distance relationships, starring Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones.