Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence has just won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Silver Linings Playbook at the 2013 Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday (February 24) in Hollywood.

Jennifer beat out Zero Dark Thirty‘s Jessica Chastain, The Impossible‘s Naomi Watts, Beasts of the Southern Wild‘s Quvenzhane Wallis, and Amour‘s Emmanuelle Riva for the honor.

Actress Jennifer Lawrence, best-known for playing Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012), was born in Louisville, Kentucky on August 15, 1990. Her career began when she spent a Summer in Manhattan at the age of 14. During that time, she scored some small commercial and film roles, and shortly thereafter her family moved to Los Angeles so she could further pursue her dream. She was cast in the TBS sitcom "The Bill Engvall Show" (2007), and in smaller movies like The Poker House (2008) and The Burning Plain (2008).

Her big break came when she played Ree in Winter's Bone (2010), which landed her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. Shortly thereafter, she secured the role of Mystique in franchise reboot X-Men: First Class (2011), which went on to be a hit in Summer 2011. Around this time, Lawrence scored the role of a lifetime when she was cast as Katniss Everdeen in the big-screen adaptation of literary sensation The Hunger Games (2012). That went on to become one of the highest-grossing movies ever with over $407 million at the domestic box office, and instantly propelled Lawrence to the A-list among young actors/actresses. Three Hunger Games sequels are currently scheduled for release in November 2013, 2014, and 2015, with Lawrence reprising her role at least for the first one (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)).

Lawrence can also be seen in The Beaver (2011), Like Crazy (2011), House at the End of the Street (2012) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012).

TIME magazine is out with its 100 most influential people in the world, and this year’s list features a wide array of entertainment figures — ranging from our Jennifer to Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun. Every year, TIME puts all 100 of them on the cover, with a postage-stamp-size picture of each, but this year they made only seven cover portraits — they are Malala Yousafzai, Jay Z, Rand Paul, Elon Musk, Li Na, Aamir Khan and Jennifer Lawrence. Cover’s in our photo gallery, take a look!