Jennifer Lawrence

 As the highest-paid actress of the world in 2015 and 2016, and her films raking in over $5.5 billion in the world, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She's also the only to be born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born August 15, 1990, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Karen (Koch), who manages a children's camp as well as Gary Lawrence, who works in construction. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine, and is of English, German, Irish, and Scottish ancestry.Her profession began when she traveled to Manhattan at 14 after dropping out of the 8th grade. Agents told her mother after her first cold read that it was "the most effective cold reading a 14 year old they had ever seen". She tried to persuade her stage mother that she should spend the summer in Manhattan. Jennifer was approached by an agent to capture her photo when she left the agency. The following day,