Jennifer Lawrence Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth & Biography

Jennifer Lawrence is an American actress and producer best known for playing Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games films and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook (2012). Born Jennifer Shrader Lawrence on August 15, 1990, in Louisville, Kentucky, she is 36 years old as of November 2026. At 5 feet 9 inches tall, Lawrence became one of the most bankable movie stars of her generation, with her films grossing more than $6 billion worldwide. She is married to art dealer Cooke Maroney, and her net worth is approximately $160 million (Celebrity Net Worth, 2025).

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jennifer Shrader Lawrence
Born	August 15, 1990 (age 36)
Birthplace	Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Occupation	Actress, Film Producer
Husband	Cooke Maroney (married 2019)
Children	2 (Cy, born 2022)
Net Worth	Approx. $160 million (Celebrity Net Worth, 2025)
Nationality	American

Who Is Jennifer Lawrence?

Jennifer Lawrence is one of the most successful actresses of the 2010s, a star who moved from raw independent dramas to the biggest film franchises in the world. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress at age 22 for Silver Linings Playbook, making her the second-youngest winner of the award, and she has been nominated for four Academy Awards in total. She was the world’s highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016, and Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013. In 2018, she founded her production company, Excellent Cadaver.

Lawrence’s range is unusually wide: she played Katniss Everdeen in four Hunger Games films, which grossed more than $3 billion worldwide, and Mystique in four X-Men films, while also earning acclaim for intimate dramas such as Winter’s Bone, Causeway, and Die, My Love. She is also known for her candid interviews and for speaking out about the gender pay gap in Hollywood after the 2014 Sony Pictures hack revealed that she had been paid less than her male co-stars on American Hustle. Her mix of blockbuster stardom and awards-caliber acting has made her one of the defining movie stars of her generation.

Early Life & Background

Jennifer Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Gary Lawrence, who owned a construction company, and Karen Koch, who ran a children’s summer camp. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine, and grew up on a horse farm outside Louisville, where she played field hockey, softball, and basketball and rode horses. As a child, she performed in local theater and church plays, and she was known for her energy and humor in school.

At 14, Lawrence was spotted by a talent scout while on a family trip to New York City, and she persuaded her parents to let her drop out of school and pursue acting, moving to New York with her mother. She appeared in commercials and auditioned steadily, graduating from high school two years early. Her first major role came as Lauren Pearson in the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009), and her film debut followed in Garden Party (2008), with a promising part in The Burning Plain (2008) alongside Charlize Theron.

Career

Lawrence’s breakthrough came with Winter’s Bone (2010), Debra Granik’s independent drama in which she played Ree Dolly, a teenager searching for her missing father in the Ozarks. The performance earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress when she was just 20 years old, and it made her one of the most sought-after young actresses in Hollywood. A year later, she played the shape-shifting mutant Mystique in X-Men: First Class (2011), a role she reprised in three more X-Men films.

Global stardom arrived with The Hunger Games (2012), in which Lawrence played Katniss Everdeen, the reluctant hero of Panem. She starred opposite Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne across four films that grossed more than $3 billion worldwide. The same year, her performance in Silver Linings Playbook (2012) as Tiffany Maxwell won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, and the SAG Award. She followed it with an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win for American Hustle (2013) and another Oscar nomination for Joy (2015), which earned her a second Golden Globe.

In the years that followed, Lawrence alternated blockbusters with smaller films: the science-fiction romance Passengers (2016), Darren Aronofsky’s provocative mother! (2017), the spy thriller Red Sparrow (2018), and her final Mystique outing in Dark Phoenix (2019). She returned to prestige drama with Don’t Look Up (2021) and with Causeway (2022), a quiet film about a veteran returning home, which she also produced. She showed her comic side in the raunchy comedy No Hard Feelings (2023), and in 2025 she earned some of the best reviews of her career for Die, My Love, Lynne Ramsay’s psychological drama, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Facts About Jennifer Lawrence

• She won the Academy Award for Best Actress at 22 for Silver Linings Playbook, becoming the second-youngest winner of the award, and she has been nominated for four Academy Awards in total.
• She was the world’s highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016, and Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013.
• At 14, she was spotted by a talent scout while on a family trip to New York City, and she persuaded her parents to let her drop out of school and pursue acting.
• She has played two iconic franchise characters: Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games and Mystique in the X-Men films.
• She founded her own production company, Excellent Cadaver, in 2018; its films include Causeway (2022) and Die, My Love (2025).

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