Happy Birthday, Jennifer Lawrence! 23 Things You Didn't Know About Hollywood's It Girl
Her chilling indie flick "Winter's Bone" earned Lawrence both Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actress, and her later movie "Silver Linings Playbook" helped her cinch both awards.
Maybe best known in the role of Katniss Everdeen, Lawrence carried "Hunger Games" to be one of the highest-grossing films of 2012. The highly-anticipated sequel, "Catching Fire," releases in theaters in November.
But before she tripped on stage at the Academy Awards, dissed Meryl Streep during her acceptance speech, and playfully flipped off the press, she was a horseback-riding Kentucky girl, living on her parents' farm and just getting by in school.