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Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in David O Russell's Silver Linings Playbook
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in David O Russell's Silver Linings Playbook. Photograph: Allstar/The Weinstein Company/Sportsphoto Ltd
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in David O Russell's Silver Linings Playbook. Photograph: Allstar/The Weinstein Company/Sportsphoto Ltd

Jennifer Lawrence wins best actress Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook

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Jennifer Lawrence won the best actress Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards in LA, for her role in Silver Linings Playbook.

She defeated a strong lineup, which included 86-year-old Emmanuelle Riva from Amour and Jessica Chastain, star of Zero Dark Thirty.

In Silver Linings Playbook, Lawrence played a troubled wannabe dancer opposite Bradley Cooper, in a romance-cum-comedy directed by David O Russell.

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