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2012 Top 10 Hottest Women Who Came in Our Dreams
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 Jennifer Lawrence:
Jennifer Lawrence is at the number four spot in Women Fitness list of " 2012 Top
10 hottest women who came in our dreams".
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990. She is an American
actress. She started out her career by playing 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 nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award,
Satellite Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award. At age 20, she became the
second youngest actress ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Actress.
Lawrence is also known for playing the villain Raven Darkhölme / Mystique in the
2011 film X-Men: First Class. In 2012, she achieved wider recognition starring
as the heroine Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, an adaptation of Suzanne
Collins' best-selling novel of the same name. Her performance in the film
garnered her notable critical praise and marked her as the highest-grossing
action heroine of all time. Lawrence's performances thus far have prompted
Rolling Stone to call her "the most talented young actress in America"
Lawrence was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and has two older
brothers. Her parents are Karen , who runs a children's camp, and Gary Lawrence,
who once owned a concrete construction firm, Lawrence & Associates. She acted in
local theater and, by the age of 14, had decided to pursue an acting career,
persuading her parents to take her to New York City to find a talent agent.
Prior to finding success in Hollywood, Lawrence attended Kammerer Middle School.
She graduated from high school two years early with a 3.9 average in order to
begin a career in acting.While growing up and in between acting, Lawrence served
as an assistant nurse at the children's summer day camp that her mother ran.
In June 2011, she starred as shape-shifting villain Mystique alongside James
McAvoy and Michael Fassbender in X-Men: First Class, a prequel to the rest of
the X-Men film series. Lawrence's Mystique is a younger version of the character
played by Rebecca Romijn in earlier X-Men films. Lawrence will reprise the role
in the 2014 sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past. She also starred alongside Max
Thieriot and Elisabeth Shue in Mark Tonderai's thriller House at the End of the
Street, which was released in September 2012.She was originally cast to play "O"
in the film Savages directed by Oliver Stone, but dropped out due to scheduling
conflicts.
In November 2012, Lawrence played a recovering sex addict in David O. Russell's
Silver Linings Playbook, an adaptation of the novel of the same name, by Matthew
Quick, opposite Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. She received widespread
critical praise for her performance in the film, with Richard Corliss of TIME
Magazine writing, "The reason to stay is Lawrence. Just 21 when the movie was
shot, Lawrence is that rare young actress who plays, who is, grown-up. Sullen
and sultry, she lends a mature intelligence to any role... Jennifer Lawrence is
the silver lining in this mostly ordinary playbook." Peter Travers of Rolling
Stone also wrote that Lawrence "is some kind of miracle. She's rude, dirty,
funny, foulmouthed, sloppy, sexy, vibrant and vulnerable, sometimes all in the
same scene, even in the same breath. No list of Best Actress Oscar contenders
would be complete without the electrifying Lawrence in the lead. She lights up
the screen."
In 2012, Lawrence replaced Angelina Jolie in Susanne Bier's depression-era
thriller, The Falling, based on the novel Serena by Ron Rash. She will be
playing the role of Serena who learns that she can never bear her husband
children and is set out to murder the woman who bore her husband an illegitimate
son before their marriage. In October 2012, Lawrence was announced as the new
face of In March 2011, Lawrence was offered the part of Katniss Everdeen in the
film The Hunger Games, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by
Suzanne Collins. Despite being a fan of the books, Lawrence took three days to
accept the role because she was initially intimidated by the size of the movie
and what it may mean for her fame. She underwent extensive training to get in
shape for the role, including stunt training, archery, rock and tree climbing,
combat, running, parkour, Pilates, and yoga. The film was released on March 23,
2012, and set the record for the third-largest opening weekend of all time,
making a record-breaking $152.5 million in three days for a non-sequel film.
The fact that The Hunger Games emerged as a big box office hit with a female
lead represents a dramatic shift for the action film genre because historically,
among the "top 200 worldwide box-office hits ever ($350 million and up), not one
has been built around a female action star" and for the first time ever,
Lawrence contradicts that. Forbes stated "No one who has seen The Hunger Games
would question star Jennifer Lawrence's ability to play an action star." She is
currently the highest grossing action heroine ever.
Though the film generally received positive reviews, Lawrence's portrayal of
Katniss Everdeen was the most highly praised with Todd McCarthy from The
Hollywood Reporter saying Lawrence embodies Katniss, "just as one might imagine
her from the novel" and "anchors" the whole film "with impressive gravity and
presence", ultimately calling her "the ideal screen actress". Kenneth Turan from
the Los Angeles Times stated that Lawrence is the "best possible performer as
Katniss and is the key factor in making 'Hunger Games' an involving popular
entertainment with strong narrative drive that holds our attention". Chicago
Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert also agreed that "Lawrence is strong and
convincing in the central role".
On September 10, 2012, Lawrence began working on the film adaptation of the
second novel in the The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,
which is scheduled to be released on November 22, 2013.
Lawrence lived in New York City for the first few years of her career, but now
resides in Santa Monica, California. She has been dating English actor Nicholas
Hoult since 2011. Regarding her personal life, Lawrence has stated, "You don't
want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is
only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to
crack it open."
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Dated 13 December 2012
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