Prepare to feel very, very bad about your accomplishments: Jennifer Lawrence turns 23 today.

Ever since her Oscar-nominated breakthrough role in 2010's Winter's Bone, the Kentucky-born actress has gone from strength to strength professionally, winning both the coveted role of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games and a 'Best Actress' Oscar this year for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook.

Which is all well and good. But it's Lawrence's grounded off-screen persona that has really made her beloved, as was made clear during Oscars week when she effectively became a one-woman internet meme factory.

Here, Digital Spy rounds up 23 of Lawrence's defining moments both on and off-screen.

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The Red Dress

It's easy to forget that Jennifer was already an Oscar nominee before she found fame in The Hunger Games. At 20, she became the third-youngest actress ever to be nominated for the 'Best Actress' Academy Award as Winter's Bone's Ree Dolly.

She was a mile away from her scrappy, squirrel-skinning Ozarks girl on the Oscars red carpet in 2011 in a dress that caused jaws to drop.

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Every actor's journey has to start somewhere, and for Jennifer one of her earliest roles was playing a basketball mascot in Tony Shalhoub's Monk. This is a real blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance, with her two scenes comprising bouncing around the basketball court in full costume and a brief locker-room exchange as 'Jen'.

The Bill Engvall Show

Lawrence's first major role was as Lauren Pearson, the scheming teenage daughter of Bill Engvall's perpetually-confused family counsellor on this short-lived TBS sitcom. While it could hardly be described as a breakthrough, the part did scoop Lawrence a Young Artist Award.

THAT Esquire shoot

"You Have Now Heard of Jennifer Lawrence" bellowed the headline for Esquire's 2010 piece, which featured a racy photoshoot and video designed to position J.Law as the next Hollywood bombshell. Mission accomplished.

Esquire

Getting ambushed by Jack Nicholson

This is what's so great about Jennifer Lawrence. When Jack Nicholson sidles up behind her mid-interview and ambushes her with some sweaty flirting, she reacts exactly the way any normal human being would: shock, awe, and hysterical laughter. She pretty much holds it together while Nicholson's around, but descends into repeated "Oh my Gods" as he walks away. And then reappears. It's a close thing, but this might be our favourite moment from Oscar night 2013.

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Her GIFs

Is Jennifer Lawrence the most GIF-able actress of all time? We say yes! Our favourite is below, and many more are this way.

Winter's Bone

Lawrence earned her first Oscar nomination for Debra Granik's hardscrabble drama, becoming the third-youngest actress ever to be nominated. She plays Ree, a resourceful teenager living in rural Missouri who is a caregiver to her two younger siblings and her mentally ill mother. Easy though it is to see the parallels to The Hunger Games' Katniss, this is a fascinating and nuanced turn in its own right.

Going blue for X-Men: First Class

Jennifer bagged her first big franchise role with 2011's X-Men prequel. She had to undergo the laborious make-up process to play Mystique, but still tackled the ordeal in a typically humorous way.

"I had a theory of when I was really tired, when I was on my seventh hour, why didn't you just dip me in a bath tub of blue?" she quipped.

Giving the finger at the Oscars

There aren't many young actresses who could flip the bird backstage at the Academy Awards and get off without a lick of backlash, but Lawrence was on such good form throughout the ceremony that this gesture - which was apparently aimed at a photographer - was clearly a playful one, and only solidified our impression of Lawrence as Hollywood's most down-to-earth young star.

Her unfiltered interviews

Nobody gives good quote quite like Jennifer Lawrence. Here's a selection of our faves:-

"I just went to the doctor today, I got a chest X-ray of my lungs and discovered that my breasts are uneven." - on anatomy.

"I'm the fastest pee-er ever. I'm famous for it." - on toilet breaks.

"Don't worry about the bitches in school - that could be a good motto, because you come across people like that throughout your life." - on growing pains.

"I'm sorry that I hit your family. I thought I saw Honey Boo Boo." - on getting distracted while driving.

"Helena Bonham Carter and Jeff Bridges waved at me. And, of course, it would be absurd if they were waving at me, so I just stared at them. I stared at both of them. And they were like, 'Alright, fine'." - on meeting her heroes.

"If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on." - on filling her free time.

The Hunger Games

Mainstream success arrived all-but overnight when Lawrence landed the role of Katniss Everdeen in the hotly-anticipated adaptation of Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games novels, beating out a slew of other young actresses including Chloe Grace Moretz, Shailene Woodley and Saoirse Ronan. She embodies Katniss's strength, emotional resilience, social stiffness and fierce loyalty so perfectly that it's impossible to imagine the franchise led by anyone else.

Hosting Saturday Night Live

While the writers of SNL didn't necessarily make the most of Lawrence's hosting stint, her opening gambit - in which she roasted her fellow 'Best Actress' nominees Jessica Chastain, Naomi Watts, QuvenzhanÃ© Wallis and Emmanuelle Riva - was gold. "You caught Bin Laden," she said, addressing Chastain. "So what? In Winter's Bone, I caught a squirrel and then I ate it. Boom!"

Tripping up on the way to the 'Best Actress' Oscar

So incident-packed was Jennifer Lawrence's 2013 Oscar night, it could almost fill a 23-point feature all by itself. In what was the greatest moment of her career so far, J.Law showed that was she still human when she tripped up the stairs on the way to the podium to make her victory speech for Silver Linings Playbook.

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Her facial expressions

Lawrence is an immensely talented actress, so it's no real surprise that she has an unusually malleable and expressive face. Her emoticon-worthy faces have brightened up many an otherwise dull awards ceremony or gala event - we've included one of our favourites below.

Her dress 'fell apart'...

... At the 2013 SAG Awards and she barely battered an eyelid. Apparently, this is meant to be part of the outfit's design.

Ordering McDonald's at the Oscars

This is potentially our favourite J.Law moment of all time. Anybody who has ever felt the agony of being truly hangry will understand Lawrence's pain on the Oscars red carpet; she'd been so busy preparing that she'd been forced to skip dinner. "Is there food here?" she asked, near-frantically, before asking an assistant to order her a Happy Meal from the McDonalds across the street. "You have to remind them of ketchup because they never include ketchup," she explained, seriously. "You have to ask for it." And thus, we fell in love.

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Meeting The Dude

Everybody loves Jeff Bridges, and despite an Oscar win and rocketing celebrity profile Jennifer was still completely starstruck when she came face-to-face with The Big Lebowski's White Russian-swilling Dude.

"What's your favourite movie you've ever done? Who's your favourite character? Did it rhyme with 'The Schmude'?" she asked with puppy-dog enthusiasm.

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Becoming officially influential

But it's not all pratfalls and memes. Lawrence's status as a bona fide modern-day icon was solidified when she was named one of Time's 100 most influential people this year.

Silver Linings Playbook

Here's the thing: Lawrence is entirely miscast in David O Russell's drama. The character of Tiffany, an emotionally unstable widow, feels like it's written for a much older actress (and indeed the character is in her 30s in Matthew Quick's novel). So it's all the more impressive that Lawrence, who was just 21 at the time of filming, commands the screen in every single scene she's in and runs emotional circles around co-star Bradley Cooper. Her 'Best Actress' win, despite stiff competition, was entirely earned.

Meeting the press after winning an Oscar...

Jennifer's post-Oscar press room interview swung between grounded, funny and self-deprecating, particularly when discussing her tumble on the stairs.

"What do you mean what happened? Look at my dress. I tried to walk up stairs in this dress. That's what happened," she said. "I think I just stepped on the fabric and they waxed the stairs."

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...and her explanation of how she got ready for the Oscars

"What was the process? I don't know. I just woke up and tried on a dress, and it fit, thank God, and then I took a shower and... I don't know, that's what I did. And then I got my hair and make-up done, and then I came to the Oscars. I'm sorry. I did a shot before I came out... Jesus."

Her family's reaction to her Oscar win

The Lawrence clan were out in force on Oscar night to see Jennifer bag the 'Best Actress' Academy Award - watch their adorable reaction here!

The Vogue interview

Journalist Jonathan Van Meter was fortunate enough to spend seven hours with Jennifer for a Vogue magazine profile. There was not a hint of celebrity ego on show, as the exhaustive piece covered everything from an unhappy childhood to getting starstruck by James McAvoy and the parallels between herself and Katniss Everdeen.

"When Winter's Bone was getting nominated [for an Oscar] I had only done indies, and suddenly I was introduced to this brand-new world where I didn't feel like myself," she said.

"I was in these weird gowns and listening to people talk about things I didn't understand. And I remember reading that in [The Hunger Games] and being like, 'Oh, my God, I know exactly what this feels like'. I don't know what it's like to get ready for your death, but I do know what it's like to be almost a puppet."

Happy birthday, Jennifer Lawrence!

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