Lawrence was discovered by a photographer while visiting New York with her mom in 2005, which led to her landing an agent.
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She Is the second youngest Oscar nominee for best actress in a leading role. Only Keisha Castle-Hughes for Whale Rider (2002) was younger.
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She Appeared in two Sundance Grand Jury Prize winners in a row: Winter's Bone (2010) and Like Crazy (2011).
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She 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 nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Satellite Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award.
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At age 20, she was the second youngest actress ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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She is also known for playing Mystique in the 2011 film X-Men: First Class.
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Lawrence's performances thus far have prompted Rolling Stone to call her "the most talented young actress in America."
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In 2012, Lawrence achieved wider recognition starring as the heroine Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, an adaptation of Suzanne Collins' best-selling novel of the same name.
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In 2012, Lawrence replaced Angelina Jolie in Susanne Bier's depression-era thriller, The Falling, based on the novel Serena by Ron Rash.
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Lawrence's performances thus far have prompted Rolling Stone to call her "the most talented young actress in America."
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She was One of People magazine's Most Beautiful People in the World 2011.
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'The Hunger Games' star Jennifer Lawrence earned the top spot as the most desirable woman of 2013
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Jennifer Lawrence says, "I like when things are hard; I'm very competitive. If something seems difficult or impossible, it interests me."
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Jennifer Lawrence says, "There's just no imagination in Hollywood. I wanted to show people "Winter's Bone" for the performance, but it ended up having the opposite effect. People were like, no, she's not feminine, she's not sexual."
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Lawrence will start filming the film adaptation of the second novel in the The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, this summer, which is scheduled to be released on November 22, 2013
