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Career
Lawrence had brain tumor when he was a child and rarely went to school.[1][2][3] He got cured after his mother went to a temple of Raghavendra Swami[4] and Lawrence strongly believes that it was Raghavendra Swami who cured him of his tumour.[5] He became an ardent devotee of the deity and added its name to his name.[2] He built the Raghavendra Swamy Brindavanam Temple at Thirumullaivayal on the Avadi-Ambattur route, which opened from 1 January 2010.[6]He was working as a car cleaner for fight master Super Subbarayan.[2] Rajinikanth saw him dancing and helped him to join the Dancers Union.[2][7] Chiranjeevi offered him the job of choreographing the dances for Hitler. Pleased with Lawrence's work, Chiranjeevi asked him to choreograph dances for Master, his next film too.[2]
Lawrence first appeared in a song in Donga Police in 1991, also doing some dances with Prabhu Deva. He was a background dancer in the song Chikku Bukku Chikku Bukku Railey in Gentleman.[2] He also appeared in dance sequences in Muta Mesthri, Rakshana and Allari Priyudu.[2] Producer T V D Prasad offered him the role of a hero in his venture Speed Dancer.[2] That film was a flop.[1] After that he acted in 2 Tamil films as hero and those films also flopped.[1] Director K. Balachander invited him to act in his 100th film Parthale Paravasam.[7] He got his breakthrough with the Muni film series.