According to Love Film Jennifer Lawrence is number one on the list of 20 talented actresses under 30. Anne Hathaway and Carey Mulligan came closests to beating Jennifer but she prevailed in the long run.

1. JENNIFER LAWRENCE
Age: 21
2011 Ranking: 1

Credits: Hunger Games, Winter’s Bone, X-Men First Class, Like Crazy

Combining down to earth grit, subtlety and resourcefulness, Lawrence already seems more mature and capable than most of her peers. She topped our list last year in part because of her astonishing, Academy Award-nominated performance in Winter’s Bone, and also because she had snagged the hotly contested lead in The Hunger Games, which we correctly noted was poised to become a Twilight sized smash. X-Men First Class doesn’t hurt either. La Lawrence has kept up the pace and then some. Later this year she has three films ready for release, the domestic horror The House at the End of the Street, with Elizabeth Shue, a minor role in the thriller Devil You Know (starring Lena Olin), and two potential prestige pictures, Susanne Bier’s Serena, costarring Bradley Cooper (and likely set for Spring 2013 in the UK) and David O Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook, again with Cooper, plus Robert De Niro, Julia Stiles, Chris Tucker and another up and coming young actress, Taylor Schilling. According to reports Lionsgate is also in talks for Lawrence to star in an adaptation of best-selling memoir The Glass Castle – and of course there are sequels to X Men First Class and Hunger Games coming soon.