Jennifer Lawrence: the rapid path to the top of fame

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The highest paid actress, the most beautiful and desirable woman in the world - and it's all about her, about Jennifer Lawrence. Her rapid career rise is simply amazing, her acting is mesmerizing, because she successfully copes with the most diverse roles. And, finally, she became the second actress in the history of cinema to receive the main statuette of the American Film Academy at such a young age, as well as many other prestigious awards.

Young years

Jennifer was born on August 15, 1990 in a small town in Kentucky called Louisville, in the United States. The Lawrence family had absolutely nothing to do with cinema: her father was in the construction business, and her mother worked as a kindergarten teacher. The girl also grew up under the supervision of two older brothers, Ben and Blaine. While still very young, Jennifer Lawrence was already thinking about her acting future, participating in school theater productions. And already at the age of fourteen, she firmly told her parents about her decision to leave for New York to look for agents who would help her break into the big screen. Parentssupported their daughter, and soon a girl without education and work experience, but with grandiose ambitions and talents, conquered the agencies in which she auditioned. Jennifer Lawrence graduated from high school as an external student and has been hard at work looking for a job.

The start of the journey

She, like many others, had to start with television. In 2006, Lawrence landed her first role on the TV show City Company. For the next two years, she also shone on television in such series as Detective Monk, Detective Rush, Medium and The Billy Ingval Show, for her role in the latter, Jennifer even won the Young Actor Award in 2009 as the best young TV series actress.

Good start

2008 was a turning point in the life of Jennifer Lawrence. Films with her participation finally hit the big screen. The debut of the actress in the movie was a small role in the film "Garden Party". And the next picture - "House of Poker" - brought her the main role and the prize of the Los Angeles Film Festival. But the drama of the same year called "The Burning Plain" with such world-famous stars as Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron, although it failed at the box office, showed Jennifer's acting from a very favorable side, which critics could not help but notice. Therefore, at the Cannes Film Festival, the promising young actress was awarded the Marcello Mastroianni Prize. After such a successful start in 2009, Lawrence took a short break and filmed the final season of The Billy Ingval Show.

First successes

Oddly enough, but a low-budget independent film by Debra Granik2010, titled "Winter's Bone" became a pearl in the career of Jennifer Lawrence, whose filmography was later replenished with box office and large-scale projects, but it was this tape that revealed the multifaceted talent of the young actress and brought her her first Oscar nomination. The next, 2011, was a very fruitful year for the actress. In addition to the black comedy The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster, as well as the low-budget melodrama Kind of Crazy, Jennifer Lawrence starred in her first-grossing film, X-Men: First Class. Her image of Mystic was received with a bang by both comic book fans and ordinary viewers, and critics.

Incredible accomplishments

The real world fame came to the young actress in 2012. Four projects with her participation went to the big screen. Minor "House at the End of the Street" and "The Devil You Know" just got lost in the background of two grandiose works by Jennifer Lawrence. The films "The Hunger Games" and "My Boyfriend Is a Crazy" made her speak not only as a young and promising actress, but also as an insanely talented and sought-after actress. And if the film adaptation of the popular dystopian novel won the hearts of millions of viewers around the world, especially the younger generation, then the comedy drama made an indelible impression on the American film academy, which distributes Oscars. Jennifer Lawrence is one of the youngest recipients of this important award in history.

Riding the wave of success

After thisThe sensation actress has become one of the most sought after in Hollywood. She starred in three sequels to the incredibly popular Hunger Games. In a creative tandem with a partner on the set of the film "My Boyfriend Is a Crazy" Bradley Cooper, whom Lawrence herself calls her "talisman", Jennifer had three more projects: "American Hustle", "Serena" and not yet released on Joy screens. Next year, viewers will again see the actress in the role of Mystique, because the release of a new large-scale film “X-Men. Apocalypse.”