Name: Jennifer Lawrence (images |
Web site | Twitter)
Hometown: Louisville, Ky., according to
her Wikipedia profile.
Best Known For: Jennifer is making her mark as an actress in serious dramatic roles -- most notably the independent films
The Burning Plain and
Winter's Bone, which won Best Picture at the 2010 Sundance Festival and this year garnered her an Academy Award nomination. Before that, she played a daughter to Bill Engvall and Nancy Travis on the cable sitcom
The Bill Engvall Show.
‘The Poker House’ was another movie in which she played lead role against Selma Blair and Bokeem Woodbine. About her acting skills, she says it is God gifted quality. She says she never went to any acting school or academy but people like her acting. For a very brief time period, she stayed in New York but after then moved to Santa Monica, California.
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She'll be playing the shapeshifter Mystique in this summer's prequel
X-Men: First Class, a role originated by Rebecca Romijn and one that that requires long hours of body paint and minimal clothing.
Humble Beginnings: She had the acting bug early, Wikipedia notes, getting her parents to take her to New York when she was 14 to look for an agent. She graduated high school two years early to dive into acting, landing the role on Bill Engvall's sitcom as well as roles on
Medium (two characters in two different episodes, one of them a younger version of series star Patricia Arquette),
Monk, and
Cold Case.She filmed a pilot in 2007 for
Not Another High School Show, a sitcom parodying teen shows and featuring fellow celebrity crush
Alison Brie (who's since gone on to
Mad Men, Community, and a role in
Scream 4) among its main cast.
Obligatory Edgy Stuff: She did a bikini photoshoot for
Esquire partly to show she has a side beyond just the girl in the deadly serious independent films. Message received.
Why Ye Olde Podcaster Likes Her: She kicked ass in
The Burning Plain, and though Ye Olde Podcaster didn't watch
Medium regularly, he did see and enjoy the episode where she played a younger Allison. There's also the urge to root for a young actress from outside the normal Hollywood scene who has reached such prominence so quickly -- here's hoping she remembers her roots and doesn't take a ride on the Lohan express.
Film and TV-movie credits: House at the End of the Street (2012) (Amazon | iTunes) *
Truckstop (2011) (rumored) (Amazon | iTunes) *
X-Men: First Class (Amazon | iTunes) *
Like Crazy (Amazon | iTunes) *
The Beaver (Amazon | iTunes) *
