It’s been a jaw-dropping 12 years—yes, really—since a 22-year-old Jennifer Lawrence tripped over her Dior couture on the way to the Oscar podium to collect her best-actress prize for Silver Linings Playbook . Backstage afterward, a reporter asked her if she, now with one Academy Award and two nominations to her credit, was worried about peaking too early.

“Well, now I am,” the actor replied, laughing and looking faux-exasperated.

Happily, Lawrence did nothing of the sort, her career settling into a steady rhythm following an incredibly rapid early rise. And now, at 35, she may just be gearing up for another Oscar campaign, what with Lynne Ramsay’s mind-bending thriller Die My Love —in which Lawrence plays a new mother battling postpartum depression and psychosis—earning raves at Ca

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