Jennifer Lawrence
The Kentucky-born child of a dad who owned a construction company and mom who owned a summer camp, Lawrence has said she never considered acting before a model scout spotted her, at age 14, when she went to New York City on a family vacation.
“Look,” she once told Vogue. “I grew up in Kentucky, I have brothers, we had to do sports, I was a horrible student, and I kept getting grounded every time my report card came out. Acting was never an option. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, well, you got a C in math; you’re grounded. But you can be an actor!’”
She later went on to win the Best Actress Oscar in 2012 for The Silver Linings Playbook and to become the highest-paid female star in the world in 2015 and 2016. Her latest, the comedy No Hard Feelings (above), establishes the 33-year-old yet again as one of our most versatile young actors.
Editor’s Note: Corrects Daniel Kaluuya’s age.
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