50 Things You Probably Didn't Know about Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence is not only an Oscar winning actress, but is beautiful, hilarious, and down to earth. Here's 50 interesting facts about the actress.

1. Jennifer Lawrence was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on August 15, 1990.

2. Jennifer Lawrence was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, to Lawrence & Associates construction owner Gary Lawrence and children's camp manager Karen (Koch) Lawrence.

3. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine.

4. Her full name is Jennifer Shrader Lawrence

5. Jennifer is of English, German, Irish, and Scottish descent.

6. She was a real tomboy growing up. When she was in preschool, she wasn't allowed to play with the other girls because she was "too rough."

7. While growing up and in between acting, Lawrence served as an assistant nurse at the children's summer day camp that her mother ran.

8. She's a very sporty person. Growing up, she played basketball, field hockey and softball as a kid.

9. At school, she was voted the "Most Talkative" which makes sense after you watch some of her hilarious interviews.

10. She also loves horse riding. She says her first love as a pony named Muffin that lived on her horse farm that her parents owned.

11. Before setting her sights on acting, Lawrence aspired to become a doctor.

12. Her nickname at school was "Nitro" because she was so energetic and full of life.

13. She has no formal acting training. In fact, she was not even enrolled at the drama program at her school.

14. However, she did make her first informal acting role at the age of 9 as a prostitute. While on summer camp, she got the role as prostitute from the town of Niveneh in a religious play based on the Book of Jonah.

15. Her big break came at the age of 14 while on vacation in New York City with her family at 14 when she was discovered by a photographer.

16. Her parents made a deal with her, she could only act if she finished school.

17. She graduated two years earlier from high school. She was a straight A student and her GPA was 3.9.

18. She appeared in a commercial for the MTV show My Super Sweet Sixteen. Lawrence mocked the show's subjects, portraying a spoiled rich girl.

19. She began her career as an extra and a guest star on TV shows like Cold Case and Medium, where she played two different characters.

20. She was also an extra on Monk where she starred as a lion mascot.

21. Her first recurring role was on The Bill Engvall Show on TBS, playing Engvall's daughter, Lauren. The show aired from 2007-2009.

22. While working on the series, she also appeared in feature films like The Poker House and The Burning Plain alongside Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger.

23. She could have been Bella from Twilight  but was turned down in favor of Kristen Stewart.

24. She also audition for the part of Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake, and she tried out for Superbad in 2007.

25. However, she didn't stay still for too long. Her next role came that same year in 2009 in Winter's Bone in which she earned her first Oscar nomination. The movie won best picture at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010,

26. For Winter's Bone, Lawrence had to learn to fight, chop wood and skin a squirrel to portray her character, Ree. She actually killed a squirrel during the film.

27. For Winter's Bone, Lawrence became the third-youngest best actress nominee, after Beasts of the Southern Wild's Quvenzhane Wallis and Whale Rider's Keisha Castle-Hughes, who were 9 and 13 when they were nominated.

28. In 2011 Lawrence appeared in The Beaver with Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Anton Yelchin. Unfortunately, the movie failed to get any attention after Mel Gibson's infamous breakdown.

29. She then played Mystique in X-Men: First Class in 2011.

30. The actress was painted nude and covered in scales for her part. She told People magazine it took seven women each day during the four-month shoot to paint the actress completely blue. 'Those girls and I got so close,' she's said to the magazine. 'It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover.'

31. Her film House at the End of the Street was delayed and seemed slated for a straight-to-video release, but Lawrence's Oscar nomination for Winter's Bone put it back on track.

32. After getting offered the role of Katniss in The Hunger Game, she did not say yes right away. She considered what fame had done to Kristen Stewarts life and thought about the offer for three days before saying yes.

33. She worked out twice a day to get in physical shape for the movie. She also took up archery.

34. The Hunger Games grossed $408 million, over $100 million more than the highest-grossing Twilight movie.

35. Lawrence appeared in the 2009 music video "The Mess I Made," by the indie band Parachute.

36. When she first met Woody Harrelson in his trailer on the set of the Hunger Games, she said "Hey Woody, is that a sex swing?" It was a yoga swing.

37. There were a lot of jokes and fun while on set. Her nickname was "Katpiss Neverclean."

38. Lawrence won an Academy Award in 2013 for her work in Silver Linings Playbook.

39. Lawrence has starred in three movies with Bradley Cooper: Silver Linings Playbook, Serena and American Hustle.

40. Lawrence is dating X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past co-star Nicholas Hoult.The couple started dating in 2011 after filming X-Men: First Class, but ended their relationship in January 2013, after 2 years of dating. They reconnected 6 months later in July 2013, after filming X-Men: Days of Future Past together.

41. Her favorite comedy movie is I Heart Huckabees.

42. She is a huge fan of Meryl Streep and deeply admires her work. After winning Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook, she joked in her acceptance speech and said "I beat Meryl!"

43. Some of her other favorite movies include"The Big Lebowski," "Harold and Maude," and "Midnight in Paris."

44. She is a big fan of John Stamos. She admitted to following Stamos around at a party, saying "dude" and "Uncle Jesse" repeatedly.

45. She lives in Santa Monica with her dog.

46. She was ranked No. 1 on Askmen's "Top 99 Most Desirable" women list for 2013.

47. She dislikes diets. 'I'm just so sick of these young girls with diets,' Lawrence told the April 2012 edition of Seventeen magazine. 'I remember when I was 13 and it was cool to pretend to have an eating disorder because there were rumors that Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie were anorexic. I thought it was crazy. I went home and told my mom, 'Nobody's eating bread - I just had to finish everyone's burgers.'

48. Jennifer is a big fan of Jeff Bridges and was starstruck when she met him on the red carpet.

49. She would love to direct one day in the future.

50. She gives hilarious interviews. Here's a montage of some of the best out there.

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