Oscar winning actress Jennifer Lawrence started her acting career at the age of 14 after being noticed by a talent scout. A few years later, she landed her first major role as a lead actor in the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall showand would go on to play roles in movies like Garden party and winter bone. And by early 2010, she became known for her role as the shape-shifting mutant Mystique in several X-Men movies, starting with X-Men: First Class. Then, a year later, she starred as Katniss Everdeen in the hugely successful blockbuster adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel. The hunger Games.
From then on, Lawrence was a name you couldn’t stop hearing. She became what can best be called America’s Sweetheart for her down-to-earth, girl-next-door relationship. She was funny, clumsy and felt like an ordinary young woman plucked from obscurity and in the center of the limelight among Hollywood’s biggest stars. Despite all her humility, of course, she turned out to be a very talented actress.
The hunger Games franchise eventually received more than 100 nominations from awards such as the Golden Globes, Grammys, MTV Movie Awards and Choice Awards, of which Lawrence was almost half. After the first hunger games film won Lawrence an Academy Award for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook. In 2014 and 2015, she was the world’s highest paid actress, but the biggest accolade for all of them was being named the highest-grossing action heroine of all time by the Guinness World Records (via Vanity Fair). To date, Lawrence has earned over $5 billion worldwide from all her work, and with that in mind, we’ve made a list of ten of her highest-grossing films.
10 US crowds – $251.2 million
Lawrence played Rosalyn Rosenfeld in American crowds, a dark comedy crime film loosely inspired by the FBI’s ABSCAM operation in the 1970s and 1980s. Her character was based on Marie Weinberg, the wife of real-life con artist Mel Weiberg. When the film premiered on December 13, 2013, it garnered massive critical and commercial acclaim, grossing $251.2 million worldwide. The film came in third on Time‘s Top 10 Best Films of 2013 and received Academy Award nominations for production, design and acting.
9 X-Men: Dark Phoenix – $252.4 million
When X-Men: Dark Phoenix was released on June 7, 2019, was expected to earn $50-40 million in its opening weekend, but only made $32.8 million, becoming the lowest opening weekend of all X-Men movie and essentially a flop. The film, which had a budget of $200 million, was pulled from theaters after three weeks and eventually had a worldwide gross of $252.4 million with $133 million in net losses. This was the last episode of the X-Men series and saw Lawrence’s character, Mystique, die early in the film.
8 Passengers — $303.1M
This romantic science fiction film starring Lawrence and Chris Pratt followed two of the passengers of a spacecraft traveling 60 light-years from Earth to a colony that awoke early from their induced hibernation. passengers ended up with a gross profit $303.1 millionearning the title of the second-highest-grossing original live-action Hollywood release in 2016, behind only La La Land.
7 X-Men: First Class – $353.6 million
The introduction of the X-Men prequels and Lawrence for a mainstream audience, X-Men: First Class was released in the US on June 3, 2011, to moderate success. The film made $55.1 million on its opening weekend, but fared even better overseas, opening at the top of the box office in 20 countries. It came third in the overseas ranking behind Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and tomcat II and eventually raised a total of $353.6 million worldwide.
6 X-Men: Apocalypse – $543.9 million
The sixth episode of the X-Men franchise and the third for the prequels, X-Men: Apocalypse was released internationally on May 18, 2016, a week before its release in North America. It debuted at number one in 71 markets worldwide, while breaking box office records for 20th Century Fox in countries such as India, Singapore and Colombia. When released in North America, it received mixed reviews from critics, but still finished second at the box office behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and became the fourth highest-grossing film in the X-Men franchise with a worldwide gross of $543.9 million.
5 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. 2 — $658.3M
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part Two released on November 20, 2015, was the highly anticipated final film for the hunger games franchise, but still yielded less than its predecessors with $658.3 million worldwide. And while it topped the box office in North America for four weeks and became the sixth-highest opening that year, it fell short of expectations for Lionsgate. In the end, they blamed the poor performance on the competition in theaters, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, and the impact of the 2015 Paris attacks that took place a week earlier. That being said, Deadline says otherwise and that this can probably be attributed to splitting the final book in half for two movies spaced a whole year apart plus the severe winter storms in some parts of the United States during release.
4 The Hunger Games – $694.4 million
The hunger Games was the first episode of the hunger games series adaptation of Suzanne Collin’s dystopian YA trilogy and when it was released on March 23, 2012, it took the world by storm. It became one of the greatest film adaptations of a book besides Twilight and Harry Potter. It had the third-highest opening gross in 2013 behind The avengers and The Dark Knight Rises and held the highest opening weekend record in the spring for the release of Batman vs Superman. The film was an explosive hit for critics and audiences and grossed $694.4 million.
3 X-Men: Days of Future Past – $747.9 million
The sequel to X-Men: First Class was released on May 23, 2014 and is sometimes considered the best of the X-Men franchise, and even received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. X-Men: Days of Future Past earned an impressive $262.8 million worldwide in its opening weekend, the highest of any X-Men film. Total gross profit worldwide was $747.9 million against a budget of approximately $200 million and Deadline calculated a net profit of $77.3 million, placing it 16th on their list of the most valuable blockbusters of 2014.
2 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. 1 — $755.4M
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 was released on November 21, 2014, as the first part of the end of the widely successful hunger games series. During its opening weekend, the film grossed $273.8 million, making it the biggest opening of all time and helping the franchise become the only one ever to earn more than $100 million from three films in an opening weekend. The film has grossed $755.4 million worldwide at a total budget of $315 million including marketing costs.
1 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – $865 million
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is Lawrence’s highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing overall hunger games franchise, with a worldwide total of $865 million on a budget of approximately $300 million, and also became the highest-grossing film for Lionsgate. The 2013 blockbuster sequel was also the first film with a female lead to surpass the annual box office since the 1973s. the exorcistwhich it managed to reach $71 million on opening day, making it the seventh biggest opening day of all time.