Biography of jennifer lawrence actress roles

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 bygd 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 bygd an agent in the midst of shooting an H&M ad and asked to take her picture.

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