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By age 23 she became the youngest actress to be nominated for three Oscars, including two for Best Actress, one of which she won.
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A diehard fan of Jeff Bridges, she met him at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con and accidentally interrupted his interview with Entertainment Tonight, but he called her back and let her take over the interview.
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For her role in Winter’s Bone 2010, she learned to skin squirrels, chop wood, and fight.
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Her love of Cool Ranch Doritos caused stains on several dresses during American Hustle 2013, leading the wardrobe department to create multiple identical dresses for her.
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For her role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games 2012, she worked out twice a day and practiced archery.
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She gave her Oscar to her parents, who keep it in their home in Louisville, KY, because she felt odd having it in her own house.
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In an interview, she said that since she and Hunger Games co-star Josh Hutcherson are such good friends, she bought a house down the street from him.
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Voted by her Middle School class as Most Talkative two years in a row.
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She brought her parents as her date to the 70th Golden Globe Awards after breaking up with boyfriend Nicholas Hoult.
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When asked to gain weight for her role as Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook 2012, after slimming down for The Hunger Games, her response was Hell ya!
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She closed 2014 as the highest-grossing actor of the year in Hollywood, with her movies grossing over $1.4 billion worldwide.
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On the set of The Hunger Games, she showed up a few times with the same blood and scar makeup from the day before, prompting Elizabeth Banks to nickname her Katpiss Neverclean.
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Discovered at 14 by a talent scout on a New York City street while on vacation with her family in 2005, she later auditioned for talent agents.
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Became the second youngest recipient of the Best Actress Oscar at age 22, after Marlee Matlin age 21.
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Is a natural blonde; she dyed her hair brown for her role in The Hunger Games.
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Auditioned for the role of Bella Swan in Twilight 2008 but lost to Kristen Stewart.
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Is the third Oscar-winning actress to appear in the X-Men films, after Anna Paquin and Halle Berry; all three appeared together in X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014.
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Gave birth to her first child, son Cy Maroney, in February 2022; the father is her husband Cooke Maroney.
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Named as having the sexiest eyes by Victoria’s Secret What Is Sexy list in 2012.
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Revealed on Watch What Happens Live in December 2015 that she has kissed co-star Liam Hemsworth off-camera and smoked pot with her brother before attending the Oscars.
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Named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2013.
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Her father had a concrete construction firm, Lawrence & Associates, and her mother runs a children’s camp.
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Named Entertainer of the Year, along with Ben Affleck, by Entertainment Weekly on November 30, 2012.
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She and Jeremy Renner are fifth cousins, once removed, discovered by Ancestry.com in 2015; they shared an ancestor in Kentucky, farmer Robert Tague.
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Was among the celebrities affected by the hack of private pictures in 2014, which she called a sex crime in a Vogue interview.
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Has English, German, Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish, distant Welsh, and remote French and Swiss-German ancestry.
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Auditioned for the role of Olive Penderghast in Easy A 2010 but lost to Emma Stone.
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Is the third youngest Oscar nominee for Best Actress at age 20 years, 163 days; only Quvenzhané Wallis and Keisha Castle-Hughes were younger at nomination.
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Married Cooke Maroney on October 19, 2019 at a lavish ceremony at Belcourt in Newport, RI; guests included Ashley Olsen, Kris Jenner, Emma Stone, and others.
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Her mother Karen once stole her Oscar ballot and tried to vote, but it was returned because it was mailed to the wrong address.
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Has portrayed the daughter of Paula Malcomson twice: in a 2007 episode of Cold Case and in The Hunger Games.
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No relation to director Francis Lawrence, though they have worked together on four movies: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, and Red Sparrow.
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Revealed in Vogue’s 73 Questions that the most fun she has had with actors on a set was with Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth on The Hunger Games.
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Filmed a cameo as Fraida Felcher in Dumb and Dumber To 2014 but later requested it be cut.
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Her nickname J-Law was coined by her seventh grade teacher.
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Is a descendant of a paternal uncle of Thomas Jefferson.
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Named one of People magazine’s Most Beautiful People in the World in 2011.
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Appeared in two Sundance Grand Jury Prize winners in a row: Winter’s Bone 2010 and Like Crazy 2011.
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Announced her engagement to art gallery director Cooke Maroney in February 2019.
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Returned to work eight months after giving birth to her son to begin filming No Hard Feelings 2023.
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Became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2011.
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Is the first person born in the 1990s to receive an acting Oscar; Ariana DeBose is the only other ’90s-born winner.
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Third highest paid actress of 2017 with $24 million.
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Auditioned for Blake Lively’s role in Gossip Girl and was reportedly very upset when she didn’t get it.
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Was the 141st actress to receive an Academy Award; she won Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook at the 2013 Oscars.
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When first playing Mystique in X-Men: First Class, she wore full-body prosthetics; she preferred the special body suit in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
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Ranked #10 on Maxim’s Hot 100 Women of 2011 list.
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Is a diehard fan of Marion Cotillard.
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Ranked #1 in AskMen’s top 99 most desirable famous women of 2013 list.
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Named one of Variety’s Top Ten Actors to Watch in 2010.
