A talent scout saw 14-year-old Lawrence when she was out and about on a family trip in New York City and set her up with auditions for talent agencies. Although Lawrence's mother was not enthusiastic about her acting profession, she did temporarily relocate the family to New York so that Lawrence could read for parts. The agents told her after her first cold reading that she was the greatest they had heard from someone so young, but her mother persuaded her that they were being dishonest. Lawrence remarked that she felt lonely and unfriended throughout her early life, which made her experiences challenging. The fact that she joined CESD Talent Agency was enough to persuade her parents to allow her try out for acting jobs in Hollywood. She turned down numerous modeling offers and instead pursued acting, which she saw as a "natural fit" for her talents; however, she did model for Abercrombie & Fitch before starting her acting career, and the agency never released the photos of her when she was a model. Her mother had encouraged her to become a fashion model. After failing to get a diploma or General Educational Development (GED) certificate, she left school at the age of fourteen. The emphasis of Lawrence's life, according to her self-described "self-educated" biography, was her work. She was a frequent visitor to Louisville, where she worked as an assistant nurse at her mother's camp, in between her acting gigs in the city.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence is a producer and actor from the United States. She was born on August 15, 1990. Lawrence has starred in both blockbuster action pictures and indie dramas, and her films have raked in over $6 billion globally. In addition to being the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, she was also named to Time's 100 most important people in the world list in 2013 and Forbes' Celebrity 100 list of 2013–2016.
Lawrence got her start in the industry with television guest spots when she was a teenager. She made her acting debut on the 2007–2009 comedy The Bill Engvall Show. Her breakout part was as an adolescent living in poverty in the indie picture Winter's Bone (2010), although she had her cinematic debut in the 2008 movie Garden Party. From 2011 to 2019, Lawrence starred as mutant Mystique in the X-Men films, and from 2012 to 2015, she portrayed Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games films. She became the highest-grossing action heroine as a result of the latter.
Over the course of three critically acclaimed films, Lawrence worked with director David O. Russell. At the tender age of 22, she became the second-youngest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a disturbed young widow in the 2012 romantic film Silver Linings Playbook. Playing the role of an erratic wife in the 2013 dark comedy American Hustle earned Lawrence the Best Actress in a Supporting Role BAFTA Award. Both roles, as well as her portrayal of entrepreneur Joy Mangano in the 2015 movie Joy, earned her Golden Globe Awards. She took a brief hiatus from acting after a string of critically panned films and intense public criticism over her character choices. Returning to the big screen in 2021 with the dark comedy Don't Look Up, Lawrence went on to produce and feature in 2022's Causeway and 2023's No Hard Feelings, among other comedies.
Lawrence supports reproductive rights for women and is a feminist. The Jennifer Lawrence Foundation, which she established in 2015, supports organizations including the Special Olympics and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Additionally, she is very involved with the anti-corruption group RepresentUs. In 2018, Lawrence established the production business Excellent Cadaver.
**Early years**
Karen (née Koch), a summer camp manager, and Gary (a construction business owner) had a daughter named Jennifer Shrader Lawrence on August 15, 1990, in Indian Hills, Kentucky. Ben and Blaine are her elder brothers. As a youngster, Lawrence had a horse named Muffin, and her family had a horse farm. Karen later recalled that her parents had considered having no more children and had even gotten rid of the baby crib. Her mother instilled in her a "tough" demeanor similar to that of her boys so that Lawrence would not grow up to be "a diva." Karen forbade her from playing with the other girls at preschool, fearing that she was "too rough" and might injure them. "Hyper" was even Lawrence's term for her. Lawrence received his middle school education in Louisville at Kammerer. Christian upbringing was hers.
Because of her hyperactivity and social anxiety, Lawrence had a difficult upbringing and felt like an outsider at school. "I didn't have any friends. I remember being kind of lonely," said the woman. In an interview, Lawrence discussed how acting helped her overcome her stage fright and achieve a feeling of fulfillment. Cheerleading, softball, field hockey, and basketball were some of her extracurricular interests at school. She played for a boys' team that her father coached. Lawrence said in 2015 that "There's something about team sports, classes, I didn't take well to it. I didn't like it.... I hated team sports" when asked about his distaste for these activities.
She often made trips to the nearby horse farm when she was a kid since she loved riding horses. The fall from a horse wounded Lawrence's tailbone. She would frequently dress up as a ballerina or clown to perform for her father as he worked from home. At the tender age of nine, Lawrence landed her first acting role in a church production based on Jonah, portraying the role of a Ninevite prostitute. Over the next many years, she maintained her participation in school musicals and church productions.
A little part in the unproduced 2006 TV pilot Company Town marked Lawrence's acting debut. After then, she appeared as a guest star on other TV programs, such as Medium (2007) and Monk (2006). She made her acting debut as Lauren, a defiant adolescent from a suburban Louisville, Colorado, family, on the TBS comedy The Bill Engvall Show. Launched in 2007, the show continued for a total of three seasons. She was able to "deliver[ing] the perpetual exasperation of teenage girls," according to David Hinckley of the New York Daily News, while Tom Shales of The Washington Post thought she stole the show in her role. Lawrence was named Outstanding Young Performer in a Television Series by the Young Artists Award for his work on the show in 2009.
Lawrence plays the role of disturbed adolescent Tiff in her feature film debut, the 2008 movie Garden Party. Then, in 2008, she made an appearance in the feature film debut of filmmaker Guillermo Arriaga, a drama told via hyperlinks called The Burning Plain. Kim Basinger's character had an affair, and she plays the role of the adolescent daughter who finds out about it. She co-starred alongside Charlize Theron, who portrayed her character's elder self. Her performance was characterized by Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe as "a thankless task," while Derek Elley of Variety lauded her as the production's standout. At the 2008 Venice Film Festival, she was named Best Emerging Actress by Marcello Mastroianni for her performance. The same year, she made an appearance in Parachute's "The Mess I Made" music video. She played the lead role of the eldest of three sisters whose mother was misusing drugs in Lori Petty's 2008 drama The Poker House. "Laurent has a touching poise on camera that conveys the resilience of children," said Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter. The Los Angeles Film Festival honored her for her outstanding performance in the film with an Outstanding Performance Award.
Adapted on Daniel Woodrell's book of the same name, Debra Granik's 2010 indie drama Winter's Bone was Lawrence's breakout performance. Playing the role of 17-year-old Ree Dolly, the film follows her as she searches for her father in the Ozark Mountains while caring for her mentally ill mother and younger siblings. She moved to the Ozarks to stay with the story's inspiration family a week before production started, where she honed her fighting skills, squirrel-skinking abilities, and wood-chopping prowess for the part. Grand Jury Prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival, David Denby of The New Yorker said the film "would be unimaginable with anyone less charismatic," and Rolling Stone's Peter Travers said Lawrence's performance is more than acting, it's a gathering storm, and her eyes are a roadmap to what's tearing Ree apart. The actress not only became the second-youngest Best Actress Oscar candidate at the time, but she also won her first Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Academy Award nods for her outstanding performance. The National Board of Review also presented her with the Breakthrough Performance Award.
Like Crazy, a 2011 love drama with Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones, was about long-distance relationships, and Lawrence was in it as a supporting character. The Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan praised the film, calling it a "intensely wrought and immensely satisfying love story" and noting that all three actors "made their [characters'] yearning palpable." The Beaver, directed by Jodie Foster and starring Foster, Mel Gibson, and Yelchin was her subsequent film appearance. Although filming began in 2009, the controversy surrounding Gibson caused production delays, and the film ultimately failed to recoup even half of its $21 million budget.
Matthew Vaughn's 2011 superhero picture X-Men: First Class, a precursor to the X-Men film series, gave Lawrence a welcome break after her tragic part in Winter's Bone. She reprised her role as the mutant shapeshifter Mystique from the previous movie starring Rebecca Romijn. Vaughn chose Lawrence because he believed she could convey the character's ambivalence and growth via her performance. Lawrence did yoga and dropped weight for the role. Like Romijn in the previous movie, Mystique spent eight hours in the makeup chair having latex parts and body paint applied to her otherwise naked body so she could assume her blue shape. Lawrence had to get to set at 2 in the morning because of this procedure. As much as she liked Romijn, she was terrified playing the part. Claudia Puig praised the film as a "classy re-boot" of the series and said that her "high-spirited performance" gave it more punch, according to her article in USA Today. At the time, Lawrence's highest-grossing picture was X-Men: First Class, which earned $350 million worldwide.
The Hunger Games, based on the novel by Suzanne Collins of the same name, was a 2012 film in which Lawrence played Katniss Everdeen. After winning a terrible televised yearly event in a post-apocalyptic future, the series follows young heroine Katniss Everdeen as she joins rebel forces against a totalitarian regime. Although Lawrence was a fan of the novels, he was first apprehensive to take the role due to the epic scope of the picture. After her mother persuaded her to participate, she gave her assent to the initiative. In preparation for the part, she engaged in strenuous physical training, including archery, rock and tree climbing, and hand-to-hand fighting. During her preparation for the role, she hurt herself after colliding with a wall. The Hunger Games was well-received by critics, who lauded Lawrence for her portrayal of Katniss Everdeen. Roger Ebert called the film "an effective entertainment," and Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter cited Lawrence as a "ideal screen actress," saying that she "anchors [the film] with impressive gravity and presence" and had embodied the novel's Everdeen. The Hunger Games, starring Jennifer Lawrence, became the highest-grossing action heroine of all time with over $690 million globally, making it the top-grossing picture starring a female protagonist. She became a household name all over the world after the film's popularity.
In David O. Russell's 2012 romantic comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook, Lawrence portrayed Tiffany Maxwell, a disturbed young widow. In the film, based on Matthew Quick's book of the same name, she forms a friendship with Bradley Cooper's Pat Solitano Jr., a man suffering from bipolar illness. "She was just kind of this mysterious enigma to me because she didn't really fit any basic kind of character profile. Somebody who is very forceful and bullheaded is normally very insecure, but she isn't." Despite Russell's initial reservations about her age, Lawrence managed to persuade him to cast her after a Skype audition. The "best experience of [her] life" was working on the project, which she characterized as challenging due to Russell's spontaneity as creative director. At the age of 22, Lawrence became the second-youngest Best Actress Oscar winner, winning the Golden Globe, SAG Award, and the Oscar. Richard Corliss of Time magazine wrote: "Just 21 when the movie was shot, Lawrence is that rare young actress who plays, who is, grown-up. Sullen and sultry, she lends a mature intelligence to any role." Peter Travers praised Lawrence, saying, "Some kind of miracle. She's rude, dirty, funny, foulmouthed, sloppy, sexy, vibrant, and vulnerable, sometimes all in the same scene, even in the same breath." House at the End of the Street, Mark Tonderai's highly acclaimed thriller, was her last picture of the year. She co-starred with Max Thieriot and Elisabeth Shue.
She was a guest host on Saturday Night Live, an NBC late-night sketch comedy show, in January 2013. Lawrence made her 2013 debut with the low-budget film The Devil You Know, which she had shot in 2005. After that, she was back as Katniss Everdeen in the sequel to The Hunger Games, Catching Fire. The underwater acrobatics in the film caused Lawrence to temporarily lose his hearing due to an ear infection. Stephanie Zacharek wrote for The Village Voice that the actress was an inspirational figure because of her portrayal of Katniss Everdeen; she said, "there's no sanctimony or pretense of false modesty in the way Lawrence plays her." And with $865 million, Catching Fire is her highest-grossing film of all time.
Lawrence continued her acting career that year with a small part as the neurotic wife of con artist Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), Rosalyn Rosenfeld, in David O. Russell's ensemble dark comedy crime picture American Hustle. The film is based on the real-life Abscam sting operation that took place in New Jersey in the 1970s and depicts corrupt politicians in that state. She relied on her familiarity with the period's cinema and television series for her portrayal rather than extensive study for the part. According to Geoffrey Macnab of The Independent, Lawrence portrayed her role with "brilliant" and "funny and acerbic" qualities. Macnab singled out an improvised sequence when Lawrence forcefully kissed Amy Adams's character on the lips. She got her first Oscar nomination in the supporting actress category, as well as her third Screen Actors Guild Award, and won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. With her three nominations, she became the youngest actor in Oscar history to do so.
Based on Ron Rash's book of the same name, Susanne Bier's 2014 drama Serena took place during the Great Depression and starred Lawrence as Serena Pemberton. After she and her husband George (Bradley Cooper) learn they are sterile, they indulge in illegal behavior in the film. Although production began in 2012, the film did not get good reviews upon its 2014 release. Following X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and X-Men: First Class (2011), Lawrence returned to the role of Mystique in X-Men: Days of Future Past. It became the highest-grossing X-Men picture to that moment, earning $748.1 million worldwide, and it was well-received by critics. "Glower, snarl and let the f/x artists do their thing" was about it for her in the picture, according to Variety's Justin Chang, who hailed her appearance but felt she had little agency.
Lawrence then went on to release Mockingjay—Part 1 (2014) and Part 2 (2015), the last two films in The Hunger Games franchise. She wrote the hit tune "The Hanging Tree" for the previous film's soundtrack, which reached the top of many international singles charts. A fog generator broke down and spewed too much fog, almost drowning Lawrence, when they were shooting a scene in a tunnel for Part 2. A rescue team hoisted her to safety. The New York Times' Manohla Dargis compared Lawrence's ascent to stardom to that of Katniss Everdeen, a rebel leader, and said that Lawrence "now inhabits the role as effortlessly as breathing, partly because, like all great stars, she seems to be playing a version of her'real' self." The two films made over $650 million globally.
Joy (2015) was Lawrence's third collaboration with director David O. Russell; she portrayed the titular role, a lonely mother who finds success in business thanks to her invention of the Miracle Mop, in the biopic. The tabloids stated that Russell and Lawrence got into a "screaming match" while filming in Boston after an argument. She said that they were able to argue more freely because they were friends, as arguments are common among people who really care about each other. Despite the film's mixed reviews compared to their previous works together, Lawrence's performance was highly acclaimed. Critic Richard Roeper called it her finest performance since Winter's Bone, calling it "a wonderfully layered performance that carries the film through its rough spots and sometime dubious detours." Lawrence not only won her third Golden Globe, but she also became the youngest actor in history to receive four Oscar nominations for Best Actress.
The years 2016–2019: Ups and downs in my career
The documentary film A Beautiful Planet, which examines Earth from the International Space Station, features Lawrence as the narrator in the start of 2016. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) was her third appearance as Mystique. While some praised the film's ideas and acting, others felt that the excessive action scenes took away from the narrative. Empire star Helen O'Hara said it was a disappointment after the high quality of earlier episodes and that Lawrence had made her character seem overly gloomy. The 43rd People's Choice Awards still went to her for Favorite Movie Actress, nonetheless. Lawrence commanded top billing with co-star Chris Pratt in the 2016 science fiction romance film Passengers, for which she garnered $20 million. Two characters, played by Pratt and Lawrence, awaken from an artificial sleep aboard a spacecraft heading to a another planet ninety years earlier than planned. Her first filmed sex scene included kissing a married guy (Pratt), and she drank to calm her nerves before shooting. The film's disappointing reviews caught the cast and crew by surprise, although Lawrence defended it at first, describing it as a "tainted, complicated love story." Later, she regretted her role in the picture.
Mother!, the psychological horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky! was the only 2017 release by Lawrence. Playing the role of a young wife, she goes through a traumatic event when strangers break into her house. Ignoring her prior aversion to rehearsals, Lawrence spent three months in a Brooklyn warehouse practicing for the film. She dislocated a rib and had to go on supplementary oxygen since the demanding part was too much for her. Wow, mom! split viewers and caused them to go on strike in large numbers. Even reviewers had mixed reactions to the picture. Walter Addiego of the San Francisco Chronicle called it "assaultive" and a "deliberate test of audience endurance," while also praising Lawrence for "never allow[ing] herself to be reduced simply to a howling victim."
Francis Lawrence's espionage thriller Red Sparrow, based on Jason Matthews' book of the same name, stars her the next year as Russian spy Dominika Egorova, who establishes contact with an enigmatic CIA operative (Joel Edgerton). Her preparation for the role included four months of ballet training and learning to speak with a Russian accent. The actor, who had been the target of a nude picture hack herself, found the role's sexiness challenging, but she felt empowerment in performing the naked sequences. While critic Eric Kohn of IndieWire had issues with the film's ending, he lauded Charlotte Rampling and Jennifer Lawrence, saying that "the considerable talent on display is [the film's] constant saving grace." Dark Phoenix, the 2019 superhero flick in which Lawrence appeared for the fourth and final time as Mystique, was a commercial and critical bust.
From 2020 forward, career advancement is the focus.
Lawrence took a brief hiatus from acting after appearing in a string of films with mixed reviews. She was unhappy with her films, wanted to escape the spotlight, and spent much of her time at home at this time. Lawrence, who had wanted to collaborate with filmmaker Adam McKay since she was 19 years old, made a triumphant comeback in 2021, starring in his Netflix feature Don't Look Up, for which she reportedly paid $25 million. She co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in the "slapstick apocalypse" picture, in which the two actors portray scientists who are trying to alert the world about an asteroid that might wipe them out. Lawrence had a red dye treatment and an undercut in preparation for the part. She said in a Vogue interview that she looked at what aspiring astrophysicists often wear. While reviewers had varied feelings about the picture overall, they were unanimous in their admiration of Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, calling them a "powerhouse" and "a delight to watch" respectively (Sandwell, Digital Spy, and Chatterjee, NDTV). The film earned Lawrence her seventh Golden Globe nomination. Within 28 days of its debut, it surpassed all previous records for most views in a single week on Netflix, clocking in at 152 million hours. It also secured the position of second most-watched film on the site.
Playing a soldier with a brain injury, Lawrence featured in Causeway (2022), an indie drama directed by Lila Neugebauer. Additionally, she served as the film's producer via her 2018-formed firm, Excellent Cadaver. Her passion for the "slow melody of a character-driven story" blossomed after her roles in many blockbuster blockbusters. The picture "is a welcome reminder of how compelling Lawrence can be, as well as a promising indication that she’s willing to seek out smaller projects and work with emerging directors," said Allison Wilmore of Vulture, who compared it to her performance in Winter’s Bone.
Lawrence ran Excellent Cadaver and oversaw the production of Bread and Roses (2023), a documentary by Sahra Mani about women in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime. In 2023, Lawrence took up her friend Gene Stupnitsky's invitation to appear in his sex comedy No Hard Feelings, which she co-produced. Lawrence was eager to participate in comedy. She portrayed a bankrupt young lady who responds to a Craigslist ad for a date with the rich parents' shy 19-year-old son (Andrew Barth Feldman). Film critics praised Lawrence's comedic timing and gave the picture positive reviews. Her performance earned her yet another Golden Globe nomination.
Die, My Love, a thriller filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, will be Lawrence's next project as both an actor and a producer.
Artistry and the public's perception of it
The 2012 review website IndieWire characterized Lawrence's off-screen manner as "down-to-earth, self-deprecating, unaffected." Her director, Adam McKay, praised Lawrence as "a strong, funny truth-teller" in his film Don't Look Up. After Jen, "No one has more beautiful anger than Jen," said McKay. One IGN reporter gushed over the actress, calling her "sharp," "funny," and "quirky," and said that she likes to "stay grounded" despite her immense fame and fortune. Lawrence claims that being "cocky" about her achievements is a reflection of her belief that acting is "stupid" when compared to vocations like medicine, which save lives.
To to Rolling Stone (2012), "the most talented young actress in America" was Lawrence. Trump praised her acting, calling her a "exquisite and brilliant actor" and drawing comparisons to Laurence Olivier, another actor she worked with on The Hunger Games. "Her acting is effortless and she makes it look easy," said David O. Russell, who directed Joy, American Hustle, and Silver Linings Playbook, among other films starring Lawrence. There is a wide variety of cinema genres in which she has featured, from big-budget studio features to independent, low-budget features. Lawrence has never been a part of a professional theatrical company and has never studied acting. She draws inspiration for her acting style from the individuals she sees in her daily life. Neither did Lawrence "invest any of my real emotions" or "take home any of the pain" that her characters experienced, she said in 2010. "I can't go around looking for roles that are exactly like my life." Lawrence continued, "If it ever came down to the point where, to make a part better, I wouldn't do it. I would just do comedies." She continued by saying that she has never shared her characters' experiences, instead relying on her imagination, and that "I don't even take it to craft services."
Lawrence is now among the highest-paid actresses in the world. In 2014, her salary was reportedly $10 million per picture, according to the Daily Telegraph. Among her many 2013 accolades, she was selected to Time magazine's 100 Most Influential list, Elle's Most Powerful Woman in Entertainment, and Forbes' Second Most Powerful Actress list, behind only Angelina Jolie. Lawrence was rated the most powerful actress in 2014 by Forbes, who also ranked her second-highest paid actress in the world at $34 million. She was ranked twelveth on the magazine's Celebrity 100 list. In 2015 and 2016, she made another appearance on the list. After winning "Entertainer of the Year" twice in 2012 and 2015, Jennifer Lawrence continued her reign as the highest-grossing action heroine thanks to her role in The Hunger Games films, which earned her the title from Guinness World Records. For the years 2015 and 2016, she earned $52 million and $46 million, respectively, making her the highest-paid actress in the world according to Forbes. With earnings of $24 million and $18 million, respectively, in the two years that followed, it put her as the third highest-paid actress in the world. From 2016 through 2018, Lawrence was named one of the 100 most influential persons in the entertainment industry by The Hollywood Reporter. Her films have raked in almost $6 billion globally as of 2019.
Following her 2011 appearance on Victoria's Secret's "Sexiest Up-and-Coming Bombshell" list, Lawrence went on to feature in People's Most Beautiful People in 2011 and 2013, Maxim's Hot 100 from 2011 to 2014, and FHM's 100 Sexiest Women list in 2014, taking the top spot. She was on Glamour's yearly list of the most stylish women from 2013 through 2015, and she was named best dressed in 2014. Lawrence became a Dior brand ambassador during Raf Simons's time as creative director, appearing in ads for the house's clothing and fragrances. When she attends red carpet events like movie premieres and award shows, she usually wears Dior. As the bride, she looked stunning in a couture Dior gown.
An identity that Lawrence claims should not scare people "because it just means equality" is feminism. Among women, she has advocated for a more positive body image. Writing on her experiences in the business, including how her male co-stars on American Hustle earned more money than she did, she penned an article for Lenny Letter in 2015 in which she criticized the gender pay gap in Hollywood. She blasted Kim Davis, the county clerk of Kentucky, for being against same-sex marriage, in an interview she gave to Vogue in 2015. Although Lawrence has been vocal in his criticism of the Republican Party, he was born and raised a Republican and cast his ballot for John McCain in 2008. In 2015, Lawrence said that the victory of Donald Trump would "be the end of the world," expressing his intense opposition to Trump's administration. In 2020, she supported Joe Biden for president.
When Lawrence became a member of the Academy in 2011, he did so as an actor. Among the many nonprofits that have benefited from her generosity are the Thirst Project, Feeding America, and the World Food Programme. She joined Her Hunger Games co-stars Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth in working with the UN to raise awareness about hunger and poverty. Saint Mary's Center is a Louisville-based nonprofit that helps people with disabilities. She collected almost $40,000 by organizing an early screening of the 2013 film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Through her collaboration with the charitable broadcast network Chideo, she screened her 2014 film Serena in an effort to generate money for the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games. Part of the premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) was a fundraising contest that she co-hosted with Omaze.
Lawrence, together with Hutcherson and Hemsworth, launched the 2015 charity campaign Prank It FWD to benefit the non-profit DoSomething. In the same year, she also established the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation to give back to organizations like the Special Olympics and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. She established a cardiac critical care unit named after her foundation in 2016 with a $2 million donation to Louisville's Kosair Children's Hospital. The nonprofit organization RepresentUs, which is working to enact anti-corruption legislation in the US, counts her among its board members. She marched in the 2018 Women's March in Los Angeles and helped form the Time's Up movement with 300 other Hollywood women to end sexual harassment and assault. Lawrence advocated for Maine to keep its ranked-choice voting system in 2018.
**Private life**
Despite Lawrence's staunch Republican upbringing—he even voted for John McCain in 2008—he switched parties after laughing at a joke on 30 Rock. Even though she came from a very devout Christian family, she nevertheless considered herself "not religious" in 2017. Lawrence did say that she prayed from time to time, both out of habit and, on one occasion, out of extreme fear for her life. The term of "atheist" was also one that she rejected.
Lawrence started dating Nicholas Hoult, who she worked with on X-Men: First Class in 2010, when they were shooting the movie. They broke up in August of 2014, just after shooting X-Men: Days of Future Past completed. In 2014, there was a celebrity nude photo leak that impacted Lawrence as well; hackers stole and uploaded many naked photos of her. In her statement, she strongly condemned the leak, describing it as a "sex crime" and a "sexual violation." She went on to say that everyone who saw the photographs should feel guilty for "perpetuating a sexual offense." She went on to say that Lawrence had meant her photos for Hoult when they were dating, and that she had no intention of suing Apple Inc., unlike other victims of the leak.
Lawrence got pregnant when she was in her twenties. She was in Montreal for an abortion but had a miscarriage instead. After meeting on the set of Mother!, she started dating director Darren Aronofsky in September 2016. In November 2017, they split up. After actress Laura Simpson introduced her to art gallery director Cooke Maroney in 2018, she started dating him. They tied the knot in February of this year. The Rhode Island house Belcourt of Newport served as the wedding venue for Lawrence and Maroney on October 19, 2019. Their current residences are in Beverly Hills, California, and the Lower Manhattan district of New York City, as of May 2019. Lawrence had to undergo a dilation and curettage treatment after suffering a second miscarriage while shooting Don't Look Up. The couple had a boy, Cy, in February 2022, and Lawrence chose the name in honor of the American musician Cy Twombly. Her publicist revealed the news of her pregnancy in October 2024, marking the couple's second child.
Those who identify as LGBTQ+ have Lawrence's full support. At the 2024 GLAAD Media Awards, she spoke out in favor of the LGBT community and revealed that her "first love" was a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Lawrence is a supporter of abortion rights and has said, "I tried to convert him for years, but now I know conversion therapy doesn't work." She went to the Rally for Abortion Justice in Washington, D.C., to demonstrate her support. pregnant in the year 2021. Lawrence, who was there with Amy Schumer, was carrying a placard that stated, "Women can't be free if they don't control their bodies."
The following performances by Lawrence have garnered awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences:
Winter's Bone (2010) received a Best Actress nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards.
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) took home the Best Actress Oscar at the 85th Annual Academy Awards.
Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 86th Academy Awards (2013) for her role in American Hustle
Joy (2015) received a Best Actress nomination at the 88th Academy Awards.
She has also won three Golden Globes: Best Supporting Actress (2013), Best Actress - Comedy or Musical (2012) and Best Actress - Musical (2015) for Silver Linings Playbook and Joy, respectively. She was also named Best Supporting Actress at the British Academy Film Awards for her work in American Hustle.