2010
Winter’s Bone
Plays Ree Dolly and earns her first Oscar nomination.
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From independent drama to a global screen heroine
The actor behind Ree Dolly, Katniss Everdeen and Tiffany Maxwell.
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
A career across intimate drama and spectacle
Jennifer Lawrence is an American actor and producer born on 15 August 1990 in Louisville, Kentucky. Her career spans independent drama, studio franchises and character-led comedy.
Her performance as Ree Dolly in Winter’s Bone (2010) brought her an Academy Award nomination for leading actress. The film follows a young woman trying to protect her family while searching for her missing father.
Lawrence reached a worldwide audience as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012) and its sequels. She also played Mystique in the X-Men film series, moving between two major screen franchises.
In Silver Linings Playbook (2012), she played Tiffany Maxwell, whose relationship with Bradley Cooper’s character develops amid difficult family circumstances. The role won her the Academy Award for leading actress at the 2013 ceremony.
Her later work includes American Hustle and Joy. Looking across these performances reveals an actor comfortable with both the pressures of a large-scale story and the smaller shifts in a character’s relationships.
Selected performances
2012
The Hunger Games
Begins her role as Katniss Everdeen.
2012
Silver Linings Playbook
Plays Tiffany Maxwell and wins the leading-actress Oscar.
2015
Joy
Plays the title character in the drama.
Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.
Films in FLM.RED
Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.
Sources & image notes
- Golden Globes — birth and selected roles
- Biography.com — film career
- Academy — Silver Linings Playbook Oscar
- Academy — Winter’s Bone nomination
- IMDb — screen credits
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