who does jennifer lawrence play in the hunger games
Jennifer Lawrence Lawrence's fame continued to grow with her starring role as Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games film series (2012â€“2015), which established her as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. She went on to earn various accolades for her collaborations with director David O. Russell. Her performance as a depressed and bipolar widow in the romance film Silver Linings Playbook (2012) earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the second-youngest winner of the award. Lawrence subsequently won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing a troubled wife in the black comedy American Hustle (2013). She also received Golden Globe Awards for her roles in both of these films and for her performance as Joy Mangano in the biopic Joy (2015).
List of awards and nominations received by Jennifer Lawrence From 2013–15, she received several awards and nominations for her performances in the other three films in The Hunger Games series, including the MTV Best Female Performance Award for Catching Fire, and three Critics Choice nominations for each films. The role of Katniss Everdeen made Guinness World Records to recognise Lawrence as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time.[7] Her reprisal of Mystique in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) earned her two People's Choice Awards for Favorite Actress and Favorite Action Movie Actress. In 2015, she starred as the eponymous inventor in the biopic Joy, which won her third Golden Globe Award in the Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical category and another Academy Award for Best Actress nomination, making her the youngest person to receive four Oscar nominations.[8][9]