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Jennifer Connelly short bio Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970 in the Catskill Mountains, New York) is an American film actress. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager, she has only recently received critical acclaim for her work, most notably for Requiem for a Dream (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001), for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress.
Connelly is married to the British actor Paul Bettany, whom she met while working on A Beautiful Mind; the couple's son, Stellan (named after Stellan Skarsgard), was born August 5, 2003. She has also a five-year-old son, Kai, from a previous relationship.
Connelly, born to an Irish Catholic immigrant and a New York-bred Jewish mother (whose ancestors were from Norway, Poland, and Russia), 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. Her father was in the garment industry, and one of his close friends through the trade was an advertising executive.
The executive friend suggested Jennifer audition at a modelling agency. At the age of 10, her career started in newspaper and magazine ads, then moved to television commercials.
Her first film role was in the 1984 film Once Upon a Time in America, where she had a small part as "young Deborah Gelly" in Sergio Leone's gangster epic. She next starred in cult Italian horror director Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985).
Jennifer Connelly became a star on her next picture, the fantasy Labyrinth (1986). Connelly played Sarah, a teenager who wishes her baby brother into the world of goblins ruled by goblin king Jareth (played by rock superstar David Bowie). Through a series of adventures reminiscent of Alice In Wonderland, The Muppets and Monty Python, Sarah does indeed manage to rescue her brother. A product of the talents of Jim Henson, George Lucas, ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones and designer Brian Froud, the film was a solid hit and enjoys a cult reputation today.
Jennifer Connelly seemed stuck as to how to follow up on this success. She made a Japanese pop record and starred in a couple of truly obscure movies - Etoile (1988) and Some Girls (1988). The Dennis Hopper directed Hot Spot (1990) was underwhelming, both critical and commercially.
She began studying English at Yale, but transferred two years later to Stanford. She did not graduate from either institution.
The big-budget Disney film The Rocketeer (1991) similarly failed to restart Connelly's career. For most of the 1990s, Connelly would be stuck with insipid, obscure films or bit parts. The former ingenue seemed destined to be a fondly remembered footnote for her role in Labyrinth.
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