Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#976
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jennifer Lawrence works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jennifer Lawrence appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jennifer. X-Men: Days of Future Past is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Francis Lawrence, Gene Stupnitsky, Lila Neugebauer and others, Jennifer Lawrence helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as Raven / Mystique · Love, Antosha (2019) as Self · The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) as Katniss Everdeen
Career snapshot
Ranked #976 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
2008–2026
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Most frequent director
Francis Lawrence
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Francis Lawrence
Most common genre
Drama
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Dark Phoenix, Love, Antosha, Red Sparrow — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 20 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Burning Plain.
Most productive era
2010s
20 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.61 film | 6.79 films | 6.63 films |
| Action | — | 7.07 films | 0.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.64 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.21 film | 6.92 films |
| Crime | 6.61 film | 6.91 film | — |
| Romance | 6.61 film | 6.93 films | 6.71 film |
| Horror | — | 6.42 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Mariana.
Career peak
2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2014X-Men: Days of Future Past
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
The current state of the argument, as Katniss Everdeen.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
26 of 26 films
as Katniss Everdeen
Directed by Francis Lawrence
as Katniss Everdeen
Directed by Gary Ross
as Mother
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
as Aurora Lane
Directed by Morten Tyldum
as Raven / Mystique
Directed by Bryan Singer
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Katniss Everdeen
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Katniss Everdeen gives Jennifer Lawrence a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Katniss Everdeen
The Hunger Games (2012)
Performance score7.8
The Hunger Games asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Katniss Everdeen is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mother
mother! (2017)
Performance score7.6
mother! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mother is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Aurora Lane
Passengers (2016)
Performance score7.6
Passengers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Aurora Lane is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Katniss Everdeen
Start here. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the clearest statement of what Jennifer Lawrence does — accessible, 146 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jennifer at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Hunger Games (2012)
Keeps the action register of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire but asks for a colder reading of it.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Keeps the action register of The Hunger Games but asks for a colder reading of it.
Passengers (2016)
Keeps the science fiction register of X-Men: Days of Future Past but asks for a colder reading of it.
mother! (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Passengers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Francis Lawrence
Director
5 films together
Notably The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
David O. Russell
Director
3 films together
Notably Silver Linings Playbook
Bryan Singer
Director
2 films together
Notably X-Men: Days of Future Past
Debra Granik
Director
1 film together
Notably Winter's Bone
Jodie Foster
Director
1 film together
Notably The Beaver
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: First Class
Gary Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunger Games
Mark Tonderai
Director
1 film together
Notably House at the End of the Street
Susanne Bier
Director
1 film together
Notably Serena
Morten Tyldum
Director
1 film together
Notably Passengers
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably mother!
Garret Price
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Antosha
Simon Kinberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Phoenix
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably Don't Look Up
Lila Neugebauer
Director
1 film together
Notably Causeway
Gene Stupnitsky
Director
1 film together
Notably No Hard Feelings
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Francis Lawrence
Director
5 films together · 5.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Hunger Games: Catching FireDavid O. Russell
Director
3 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Silver Linings PlaybookBryan Singer
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
X-Men: Days of Future PastGarret Price
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, AntoshaMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: First ClassGary Ross
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hunger GamesAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Don't Look UpDarren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
mother!Morten Tyldum
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PassengersDebra Granik
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Winter's BoneGene Stupnitsky
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Hard FeelingsLila Neugebauer
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CausewayJodie Foster
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BeaverSimon Kinberg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark PhoenixMark Tonderai
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
House at the End of the StreetSusanne Bier
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SerenaSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Raven / Mystique
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Silver Linings Playbook
as Tiffany Maxwell
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Raven / Mystique
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as Katniss Everdeen
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Katniss Everdeen
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Jennifer Lawrence has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
13 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Winter's Bone
as Ree Dolly
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Hunger Games
as Katniss Everdeen
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Like Crazy
as Sam
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Red Sparrow
as Dominika Egorova
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Raven / Mystique
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Katniss Everdeen
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Silver Linings Playbook
as Tiffany Maxwell
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
American Hustle
as Rosalyn Rosenfeld
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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