Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly in Central Park, New York City, June 2, 2005
Birth name	Jennifer Lynn Connelly
Born	December 12, 1970 (1970-12-12) (age 36) Catskill Mountains, New York, USA
Notable roles	Young Deborah in Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Sarah in Labyrinth (1986) Jenny Blake in The Rocketeer (1991) Allison Pond in Mulholland Falls (1996) Marion Silver in Requiem for a Dream (2000) Alicia Nash in A Beautiful Mind (2001) Maddy Bowen in Blood Diamond (2006)
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress 2001 A Beautiful Mind
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture 2002 A Beautiful Mind
BAFTA Awards
Best Supporting Actress 2001 A Beautiful Mind

Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former child model. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager and catapulted to fame on the basis of her appearances in films like Labyrinth and Career Opportunities, she did not receive wide exposure for her work until the 2000 drama Requiem for a Dream, and the 2001 biopic A Beautiful Mind, for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (406x762, 79 KB) CROPPED AND RETOUCHED FROM ORIGINAL File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Jennifer Connelly ... Central Park is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 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Biography

Early life

Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Eileen, an antiques dealer, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer who worked in the garment industry.^[1] Connelly's paternal grandfather was Irish American and her paternal grandmother was a Norwegian American; her maternal grandparents were Jewish, their families having come from Russia and Poland.^[2][3] Connelly was raised in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, near the Brooklyn Bridge, attending St. Ann's School, except for four years the family spent living in Woodstock, New York. One of her father's friends was an advertising executive, who suggested that she audition at a modeling agency. The Catskill Mountains (also known as simply the Catskills), a natural area in New York State northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany, are not, despite their popular name, true geological mountains, but rather a mature dissected plateau, an uplifted region that was subsequently eroded into sharp relief. ... NY redirects here. ... Irish population density in the United States, 1872. ... The Norwegian-Americans are an ethnic group in the United States. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Expensive real estate: Brooklyn Heights in the snow taken from the Promenade, 2003 Brooklyn Heights is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn; originally designated through popular reference as Brooklyn Village, it has, since 1834, become a prevalent area of the Brooklyn borough. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... For other uses, see Brooklyn Bridge (disambiguation). ... Saint Anns School is a private school in New York City known for its strength in the arts as well as academics. ... Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. ... NY redirects here. ... Commercialism redirects here. ... A modeling agency is a company that represent fashion models, to work for the fashion industry. ...

At the age of ten, her career started in newspaper and magazine ads, then moved to television commercials. These led to movie auditions and at the age of eleven, her first film role was as "young Deborah Gelly," a supporting role in Sergio Leone's 1984 gangster epic, Once Upon a Time in America. She next starred in Italian horror director Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985) and in the coming-of-age movie Seven Minutes in Heaven. Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director. ... Once Upon a Time in America (Italian title Cera una volta in America) (1984) is the last film by director Sergio Leone, and features Robert De Niro and James Woods as Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York Citys world of organized crime. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... Dario Argento (born September 7, 1940) is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. ... Jennifer Connelly stars in horror stylist Dario Argentos spine tingling tale of a young girl who arrives at an eerie Swiss boarding school where the students are being butchered by a vicious serial killer. ... Seven Minutes in Heaven is a 1985 teen film directed by Linda Feferman, starring Jennifer Connelly in one of her first roles. ...

Early career

Connelly became a star on her next picture, the fantasy Labyrinth (1986) playing Sarah, a teenager who wishes her baby brother into the world of goblins ruled by goblin king Jareth (David Bowie). The film disappointed at the box office. Smaug in his lair: an illustration for the fantasy The Hobbit Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Labyrinth is a 1986 fantasy film directed by Jim Henson, produced by George Lucas, and designed through the art of Brian Froud. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ...

Connelly made a Japanese pop single record, "Jennifer's X'mas" (ジェニファーのクリスマス; Toshiba-EMI, 1986)^{[citation needed]}, an Italian Balcannica record^{[citation needed]} and starred in several obscure films, such as Etoile (1988) and Some Girls (1988). The Dennis Hopper-directed The Hot Spot (1990) was underwhelming, both critically and commercially. Another film, Career Opportunities, was more successful and is considered a teen cult classic. It and Hot Spot threatened to typecast her in the "sexpot" stereotype with both films emphasizing her voluptuous figure, particularly Hot Spot, which contained her first topless scene. It would be the first of seven movies in which she appeared nude. Toshiba-EMI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Dennis Lee Hopper (born May 17, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and film-maker. ... The Hot Spot is a 1990 American drama/romance movie directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, and Jennifer Connelly. ... [[Image:|right|thumb|230px|North American DVD release: Jennifer Connelly and Frank Whaley]] Career Opportunities is an American romantic comedy film that was released in 1991. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The word typecasting (past participle typecast) can mean more than one thing: typecasting (programming) typecasting (acting) in acting This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Connelly in "Career Opportunities"

Connelly was featured on the cover of Esquire in August 1991, as part of the "Women We Love" feature. ^[4] She appeared alongside Jason Priestley in the Roy Orbison music video for "I Drove All Night" in 1992. Connelly began studying English at Yale, and two years later transferred to Stanford. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... George Lois cover design for Esquire (May 1969) Esquire is a magazine for men owned by the Hearst Corporation. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Jason Bradford Priestley (born August 28, 1969), actor, was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988), nicknamed The Big O, was an influential American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades. ... I Drove All Night is the name of a song recorded by 1980s icon and singer Cyndi Lauper for her third album A Night to Remember, which was released in 1989. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ...

The big-budget Disney film The Rocketeer (1991) similarly failed to ignite Connelly's career; after its failure she took some time off from acting. The 1996 indie film Far Harbor played her against type and hinted at a much broader range than she had previously shown. Connelly began to appear in smaller but well-regarded films, such as 1997's Inventing the Abbotts and 2000's Waking the Dead. She played a collegiate lesbian in John Singleton's 1995 ensemble drama, Higher Learning. The critically favored 1998 science fiction film Dark City afforded her the chance to work with such actors as Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Ian Richardson and Kiefer Sutherland. Connelly revisited her ingenue image, though in a more understated way, for the 2000 Jackson Pollock biopic Pollock, in which she played Pollock's mistress. Disney may refer to: The Walt Disney Company and its divisions, including Walt Disney Pictures. ... The Rocketeer is a 1991 superhero adventure film produced by Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone Pictures[1] and directed by Joe Johnston. ... An independent film (or indie film) is a film produced without the support of a major movie studio or a big budget. ... Inventing the Abbotts is a 1997 American drama film/romance film directed by Pat OConnor, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Liv Tyler, and Jennifer Connelly. ... Waking the Dead is a 2000 film directed by Keith Gordon. ... A lesbian is a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted only to other women. ... John Daniel Singleton (born January 6, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an African-American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... Higher Learning is a 1995 drama film, starring Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, Jennifer Connelly, Michael Rapaport, Laurence Fishburne and Randall Batinkoff. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Dark City is a 1998 science fiction film written by Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer, and directed by Proyas. ... Rufus Frederik Sewell (born October 29, 1967) is an English actor. ... William Hurt in Lost in Space. ... Ian William Richardson CBE (7 April 1934 – 9 February 2007) was a Scottish actor best known for playing the Machiavellian politician Francis Urquhart in the House of Cards trilogy for the BBC. // Born in Edinburgh, Richardson was educated at Balgreen Primary School and Tynecastle High School in the city,[1... Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland (born December 21, 1966 in London, England) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian television and film actor, well known for his role of Jack Bauer on the series 24. ... Controversy swirls over the alleged sale of No. ... A biographical film or biopic is a film about a particular person or group of people, based on events that actually happened. ... Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of artist Jackson Pollock. ...

Breakthrough

Arguably,^{[citation needed]} Connelly's big breakthrough was the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream. Connelly starred alongside Jared Leto and Marlon Wayans as heroin addicts on the edge of a breakdown. The film firmly established her as a serious actress. Connelly next starred in Ron Howard's film A Beautiful Mind (2001), essaying the role of Alicia Nash, the long-suffering wife of the brilliant, schizophrenic mathematician John Nash (played by Russell Crowe). The film was a critical and commercial success and earned Connelly an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her appearance in A Beautiful Mind led to a featured article in TIME magazine.^[5] Requiem for a Dream is a 2000 film adaptation of a 1978 novel of the same name. ... Jared Joseph Leto (born December 26, 1971) is an American actor and musician. ... Marlon Wayans (born July 23, 1972) is an American actor, producer, comedian, writer, and director of movies, beginning with his role as a pedestrian in Im Gonna Git You Sucka in 1988. ... Heroin (INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is an opioid synthesized directly from the extracts of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. ... For other people named Ron Howard, see Ronald Howard. ... A Beautiful Mind is a Academy Award-winning film inspired by the Nobel Prize (Economics) winning mathematician John Nash and his experiences of schizophrenia. ... Schizophrenia (from the Greek word σχιζοφρένεια, or shjzofreneja, meaning split mind) is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality and by significant social or occupational dysfunction. ... John Forbes Nash, Jr. ... Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning New Zealand-Australian[1] film actor. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...

Connelly starred in two films in 2003: Hulk and House of Sand and Fog. Hulk was something of a box office disappointment, but afforded Connelly the chance to work with noted director Ang Lee. House of Sand and Fog, based on the novel by Andre Dubus III, was reminiscent of much of her independent film work of the late 1990s. Connelly appeared in the 2005 horror film Dark Water, which was based on a Japanese film. In 2006, Connelly appeared in two films, both of which were nominated for multiple Academy Awards. She played a major role in an adaptation of the novel Little Children alongside Kate Winslet. Though her role as Kathy Adamson was very important in the novel, the director gave her character less screen time, instead focusing on the characters played by Winslet and Patrick Wilson. She also played a journalist in Blood Diamond opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. Hulk (2003) is a movie based on the comic book series The Incredible Hulk published by Marvel Comics. ... This article is about the movie. ... Ang Lee (Chinese: ; Hanyu Pinyin: ) (born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning film director from Taiwan. ... Andre Dubus III (b. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... Dark Water is a 2005 American horror film directed by Walter Salles and starring Jennifer Connelly. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Little Children is a recently released film directed by Todd Field, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta. ... Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a five time Academy Award-nominated Emmy Award-nominated BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award winning English actress. ... There are several Patrick Wilsons. ... Blood Diamond is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 film directed and produced by Edward Zwick. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

Three of her more critically-acclaimed films (Dark City, Requiem for a Dream, and House of Sand and Fog) feature very similar scenes of Connelly standing alone on a pier overlooking the ocean. According to the directors, this was entirely a coincidence.^[6] Dark City is a 1998 science fiction film written by Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer, and directed by Proyas. ... Requiem for a Dream is a 2000 film adaptation of a 1978 novel of the same name. ... This article is about the movie. ...

She turned down the leading role in The Ring due to scheduling conflicts^{[citation needed]}. She also turned down the role of Katherine Thorn in The Omen because the original movie disturbed her^{[citation needed]}. The role of Veronica in Heathers was written with her in mind but she turned it down^{[citation needed]}. She also lost out at the last minute to Ione Skye in Cameron Crowe's Say Anything^{[citation needed]}. As of 2007, she is on set filming Reservation Road with Joaquin Phoenix, planned for release in the fall of 2007.^{[citation needed]} The Ring is a 2002 American film, a remake of the Japanese horror mystery Ring (1998). ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Heathers is a 1989 black comedy film starring Winona Ryder, Shannen Doherty, and Christian Slater. ... Ione Skye Leitch (born September 4, 1971 in Hertfordshire, England) is an actress. ... Cameron Crowe Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American writer and film director. ... Say Anything. ... Reservation Road is a film directed by Terry George and based on the book of the same title by John Burnham Schwartz, who, along with George, adapted the novel for the screenplay. ... Joaquín Rafael Phoenix (pronounced IPA: ) (born October 28, 1974), formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican actor. ...

Personal life

Connelly is an ethical vegan. She is married to the English actor Paul Bettany (born 1971), whom she met while working on A Beautiful Mind. The couple's son, Stellan (named after actor Stellan Skarsgård), was born on August 5, 2003. She also has a son, Kai (born 1997), from her relationship with photographer David Dugan. Hens kept in cramped conditions — the avoidance of animal suffering is the primary motivation of people who become vegans A vegan is a person who avoids the ingestion or use of animal products. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the  United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total 130... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd (help· info) (born June 13, 1951, Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish actor. ... August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Filmography

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External links

• Jennifer Connelly at the Internet Movie Database
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