What are the best Jennifer Lawrence performances of all time?

From the Ozark wilderness to the Capitol arena to the streets of 1970s New Jersey, Lawrence carved out one of the most explosive Hollywood careers of her generation. Which role defined her?

Winter's Bone (2010)

Lawrence's breakthrough role — a 17-year-old in the Ozark mountains who must track down her missing father to save her family's home — earned her first Oscar nomination.

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The Hunger Games (2012)

Lawrence became a global star as Katniss Everdeen — the reluctant revolutionary who becomes the symbol of rebellion against a totalitarian dystopia.

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Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Lawrence won the Academy Award for Best Actress as Tiffany — a grieving widow who channels her pain into a dance competition with her equally troubled neighbor.

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American Hustle (2013)

Lawrence is ferociously funny and unpredictable as Rosalyn Rosenfeld, the explosive, oblivious wife of a con artist, stealing every scene she is in.

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Joy (2015)

Lawrence plays Joy Mangano, the real-life inventor of the Miracle Mop who built a business empire against all odds in David O. Russell's biopic.

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

Lawrence deepens Katniss's journey as she becomes both a pawn and a spark in the growing revolution against the Capitol.

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mother! (2017)

Lawrence plays a woman whose idyllic home is invaded by increasingly disturbing strangers in Darren Aronofsky's polarizing, allegorical horror masterwork.

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Causeway (2022)

Lawrence plays a soldier returning from Afghanistan with a brain injury, quietly rebuilding her life in New Orleans in this intimate, stripped-back drama.

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No Hard Feelings (2023)

Lawrence is wildly funny as a financially desperate woman hired by helicopter parents to date their introverted son before he goes to college.

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Red Sparrow (2018)

Lawrence plays a Russian ballerina who becomes a lethal intelligence operative after a career-ending injury in this cold, stylish spy thriller.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

Lawrence's Mystique is at the center of the X-Men timeline, manipulated by both sides as the pivotal figure whose actions will determine humanity's fate.

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Serena (2014)

Lawrence plays a ruthless timber baroness whose obsessive love and violent ambition consume everything around her in this dark 1930s period thriller.

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