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The Many Faces of… Jennifer Lawrence

Welcome to the 75th installment of “The Many Faces of…”!

Jennifer Lawrence was born August 5, 1990 in Louisville, Kentucky. She started acting in a local theater, never having followed acting lessons. She wanted to pursue a career in acting and finished high school two years earlier to be able to do it. Her first work was in TV shows starting in 2006 and had her breakthrough in Winter’s Bone. She has since acted in The Beaver, The Hunger Games, XMen: First Class and her Oscar winning performance in Silver Linings Playbook. Continue reading →

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Winter’s Bone (2010)

17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) doesn’t have an easy existence. She lives together with her younger brother and sister and her mother, who has some mental issues, on the countryside of America. Life is already very hard, but when she hears that her father has put up their house in order to make bail it all becomes worse. If he doesn’t show up on his court date it will mean that her world will collapse.
The only thing she can do is to start searching for her father. Her environment is very hostile towards her, which only makes her search more difficult. Continue reading →