Jennifer Lawrence, Academy Award winning actress, is one of the top celebrities to be named in the Forbes' List of Top 20 Highest Grossing Actresses with a projected net worth of $40 million. On August 15, 1990, Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born in Louisville, Kentucky.

Jennifer Lawrence showed profound interest in acting thus acted in numerous local theater productions in Kentucky.  In her early teens, she persuaded her family to move to New York City to pursue her dream to become an actress. She speedily began landing small roles in commercials and print advertisements as well as in television shows.

Earlier in her career, Jennifer Lawrence has been put in the visible façade of the annual awards show barrage in Hollywood. She has been tugged from the comparative anonymity on the back of a breakthrough performance in a less sensationalized indie film. Jennifer Lawrence's performance in "Winter's Bone" as a breakthrough actress earned major praises and criticisms thus gaining a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. The movie had been nominated in Oscar Awards Best Picture and had won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize.  Because of the said movie and nomination, J-Law acting-changing career began.

"The Bill Engvall Show" is one of Jennifer Lawrence's works that has been highly recognized as well. But when she starred in "The Burning Plain" opposite actress Charlize Theron, J-Law's career stalled. The movie flopped.

After some time, Jennifer Lawrence landed her most famous role and biggest break as Katniss Everdeen, the heroine in the Hunger Games Trilogy written by bestselling author Suzanne Collins. According to some reports, $500,000 was J-Law's salary and $1 million worth from escalators in the first Hunger Games movie. But after its worldwide success, her wage zoomed to $10 million with the combination of her salary, bonuses and escalators with Hunger Games second movie's Catching Fire.

To this day, Jennifer Lawrence became one of Hollywood's hottest and most sought after stars. Because of her incomparable acting abilities and after winning an Oscar for Best Actress in the movie, Silver Linings Playbook, J-law became one of the highly applauded actresses of her generation.

And who says that she can't be an action hero? Jennifer Lawrence, 23 year old actress will have her career amazingly soaring high in the years to come. All thanks to her great talent, oozing personality combined with her acclaimed box office expertise, Jennifer Lawrence will continue to rise. And with her $40 million estimated net worth, you have one of the most influential Hollywood actresses to be be hailed among the Forbes' Top 20 Highest Grossing actresses.