Jennifer Lawrence is one of Hollywood’s favorite actresses and when she stars in a movie, it becomes an immediate success.
These are some facts about her you should know:
- She was born on August 15, 1990.
- She was born in Indian Hills, Kentucky.
- Her father is a construction worker, and her mother is a summer camp manager.
- She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine.
- She was educated at the Kammerer Middle School in Louisville.
- Her activities in school included cheerleading, softball, field hockey and basketball, which she played on a boys’ team that was coached by her father.
- She had her first acting assignment at age nine when she played the role of a prostitute in a church play that was based on the Book of Jonah.
- She was 14 and on a family vacation to New York City when she was spotted on the street by a talent scout who arranged for her to audition for talent agents.
- She signed on with the CESD Talent Agency, who convinced her parents to let her audition for roles in Los Angeles. While her mother encouraged her to go into modeling instead, Lawrence insisted on pursuing acting.
- Jennifer Lawrence began her acting career with a minor role in the television film Company Town (2006).
- She made her film debut in the 2008 drama film Garden Party, in which she played a troubled teenager named Tiff.
- In 2015, Lawrence teamed with Hutcherson and Hemsworth for Prank It FWD, a charitable initiative to raise money for the non-profit organization Do Something.
- In 2015 she also launched the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation, which supports charities such as the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Special Olympics.
- In 2016, she donated $2 million to the Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville to set up a cardiac intensive care unit named after her foundation.
- She appeared in Victoria’s Secret’s listing of the “Sexiest Up-and-Coming Bombshell” in 2011, People’s Most Beautiful People in 2011 and 2013, Maxim’s Hot 100 from 2011 to 2014, and topped FHM’s sexiest women in the world list in 2014.
