Jennifer Lawrence - Hollywood Foreign Press Association Installation Luncheon August 9, 2012

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American film and television actress. She has had lead roles in TBS's The Bill Engvall Show and in the independent films The Burning Plain and Winter's Bone, for which she received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. At age 20, this made her the second youngest actress to ever be nominated for the award. She also played Mystique in X-Men: First Class. She was cast as Katniss Everdeen in the 2012 film, The Hunger Games, which is based on the first book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.