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,” the 33-year-old 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, establishes her yet again as one of our most versatile young actors who made it without family connections.
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