Jennifer Lawrence: Must Watch Movies and TV Shows

One of the very renowned and talented commercially successful as well as critically acclaimed film artists Jennifer Lawrence is born in Indian Hills of Kentucky. This thirty-two years old actress began acting since the year of 2006.

Lawrence is an influential actress who has appeared in a number of tv series and films and was listed among Time’s 100 hundred most influential people in the world in 2013. In this article, Lawrence’s most significant roles in films and series are enlisted.

List of Films in which Jennifer Lawrence starred in significant roles:

The Poker House (2008)-

This film is Lori Petty’s directorial debut and is inspired by her early life in the 1970s. Lawrence played the main role of Agnes who is a teenage girl raised in the whorehouse of her mother and her two younger sisters.

Winter’s Bone (2011)-

This is Debra Granik’s coming-of-age mystery drama adapted from the same named novel of 2006. Lawrence was cast in the film in the role of Ree Dolly, a poor teenage girl who is determined to find her missing father to protect her family from eviction.

Jennifer Lawrence was nominated for Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for this role.

Like Crazy (2011)-

Drake Doremus has directed this romantic movie telling the story of two students falling in love and then separating as one of them is an exchange student having denied re-entry into the US.

Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones played the roles of the students Jacob and Anna respectively. Lawrence played the role of a girl named Samantha who is in love with Jacob.

X-Men: First Class (2011)-

This is a superhero movie adapted from Marvel Comics’ X-Men characters starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, etc. with Lawrence playing the role of the shape-shifting mutant Raven aka Mystique.

The Hunger Games series (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)-

These are the films for which Lawrence is most widely recognized as she portrayed the extremely brave and independent strong survivalist fictional young woman Katniss Everdeen in the film adaptations of Suzanne Collins’ same-named novel series.

She reprised this role in the sequel films ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1’, and ‘And the Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 2’.

Silver Linings Playbook (2013)-

David O. Russell directed this film which is based on the same named novel by Matthew Quick in 2008. Lawrence was cast in the lead role of a young widow named Tiffany Maxwell co-starring with Bradley Cooper as a recent divorcee named Patrizio Solitano Jr. The film premiered first at Toronto International Film Festival.

Lawrence won Academy Award for Best Actress for this role and received a British Academy Film Award nomination, Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for this role.

American Hustle (2014)-

Again directed by David O. Russell, this film borrows content from the real-life Abscam operation of the FBI in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Lawrence played the role of Rosalyn Rosenfeld, the unpredictable wife of Irving Rosenfeld, played by Christian Bale as she co-starred with Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and her former co-worker Bradley Cooper.

Lawrence received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for this role. She also won British Academy Film Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for this role.

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)-

A sequel to the 2011 film, this superhero movie brought back Lawrence in the role of Raven aka Mystique.

Joy (2016)-

Another direction from David O. Russell, this film is a biographical comedy-drama portraying the life of inventor and entrepreneur of America Joy Mangano. Lawrence starred in this titular role-playing the self-made millionaire as she is seen to create a business empire of her own.

Lawrence received another Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for this role and also won a Golden Globe Award.

Mother! (2017)-

This is a psychological horror movie by Darren Aronofsky that casts Lawrence in the titular role of a young woman.

Don’t Look Up (2021)-

Adam McKay directed this apocalyptic political satire black comedy movie in which Lawrence played the role of Kate Dibiasky who is a doctoral candidate in astronomy as she co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio, playing the role of Dr. Randall Mindy who is the astronomy professor of Kate.

The story rolls as the student and teacher try to convince the world about an upcoming threat on planet Earth by an approaching comet.

Causeway (2022)-

This is a psychological movie starring Lawrence who played the role of a soldier named Lynsey deployed in Afghanistan suffering from a traumatic brain injury.

List of TV Series in which Lawrence starred in significant roles:

The Bill Engvall Show-

Number of Seasons: 3

This is a sitcom on TBS in which Lawrence played the role of Lauren Pearson, the oldest kid of the Pearson family.