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World’s most desirable woman: Jennifer Lawrence by AskMen.com.
– Reported, December 12, 2012
Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games star has been voted the world’s most desirable woman.
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 villian 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 (née Koch), 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.
The 22-year-old The Hunger Games star has been awarded the title in a new international poll released on Thursday by online men’s magazine AskMen.com after winning over the majority of the 2.4 million voters with her down-to-earth attitude.
Editor-In Chief James Bassil said: ‘Overall, there’s a sense that she’s a little more authentic than other actors.
‘She’s fresh because we haven’t seen her all over the gossip pages for the past three or four years.’
The blonde beauty was followed in the top five by actress Mila Kunis, model Kate Upton, Rihanna and actress Emma Stone.
Last year’s winner ‘Modern Family’ star Sofia Vergara slipped to 12th place.
Other well known names to make the list included a number of beauties over the age of 40 including US First Lady Michelle Obama, 48, comedian Sarah Silverman, 42, and British actress Rachel Weisz, 42.
Jennifer has been dating British actor Nicholas Hoult, 22, since they met on the set of 2011’s ‘X-Men: First Class’ and she doesn’t want them to become a celebrity couple.
Jennifer previously said: ‘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. Maybe there’s less pressure if you admit you are dating. Admitting that is just an experiment. I’m going to see how it goes.’
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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