Jennifer Lawrence is a film and television actress who appeared in the 2010 drama movie Winter's Bone, which received the Grand Jury Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, among many other awards.http://sundance.bside.com/2010/films/wintersbone_sundance2010 Lawrence was also a regular on the television series The Bill Engvall Show from 2007 to 2009.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2225369/ Additionally, she is confirmed for a role in the fifth X-Men film, X-Men: First Class, which has a release date of June 3, 2011.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798/

For her work in Winter's Bone, Lawrence received nominations as the Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards and for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role at the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards.http://jenniferslawrence.com/want-to-watch-the-sag-awards-nominations/ http://jenniferslawrence.com/jennifer-lawrence-nominated-for-golden-globe/

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1990, Jennifer Lawrence began her acting career at the age of 14 when she appeared on stage in Kentucky and began modeling. In the spring of 2004, Lawrence visited New York City on the advice of a photographer and met with modeling and talent agencies. These meetings began her professional career. Lawrence spent that summer in New York before moving to Los Angeles, California, to pursue acting.http://jenniferslawrence.com/about/

The move led to guest roles on the television series Medium and Cold Case as well as a regular role on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show. Lawrence went on to appear in several films including Winter's Bone, The House at the End of the Street, X-Men: First Class and The Beaver, a comedy-drama film opening in 2011 starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster, the later of which is directing the film as well.http://jenniferslawrence.com/about/

• 2006: Company Town
• 2006: Monk
• 2007: Medium
• 2007: Cold Case
• 2007-09: The Bill Engvall Show
• 2008: Garden Party
• 2008: The Poker House
• 2008: The Burning Plain
• 2009: Devil You Know
• 2010: Winter's Bone
• 2011: Like Crazy
• 2011: The Beaver
• 2011: X-Men: First Class
• 2011: Truckstop
• 2012: House at the End of the Streethttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm2225369/filmoyear

"I so excited, I'm honored, I wish you could see the huge grin on my face... It's so exciting and such a shock. I had no idea they were even announcing the nominations today."—On her 2010 Golden Globe nominationhttp://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/12/jennifer-lawrence-wish-you-could-see-the-huge-grin-on-my-face/1

"I thought it was the best female role I'd read – ever. I was so impressed by Ree's tenacity and that she didn't take no for an answer. For the audition, I had to fly on the redeye to New York and be as ugly as possible. I didn't wash my hair for a week, I had no makeup on. I looked beat up in there. I think I had icicles hanging from my eyebrows."—On her role in Winter's Bonehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/02/jennifer-lawrence-sitting-pretty

"Then I went into the agency and did a cold read for a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup commercial. They told me it was the best cold read they’d ever seen from a 14-year-old. My mom told me they were lying."—On the start of her acting careerhttp://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/the-nifty-50-jennifer-lawrence-actress/