Jennifer Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990, and is an American film and television actress. She has had 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 critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She has been cast as Katniss Everdeen in the highly-anticipated upcoming 2012 film, The Hunger Games, which is based on the first book in The Hunger Games trilogy.