Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American film actress and former child model. Connelly started modeling after a friend of her parents suggested that she should audition. She appeared in magazine, newspaper and television advertising. She made her motion picture debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America. Continuing as a model, Connelly starred as a teenager in films such as Labyrinth and Career Opportunities. She gained critical acclaim following her work in the 1998 science fiction film Dark City and for her portrayal of Marion Silver in Darren Aronofsky's 2000 drama, Requiem for a Dream.
In 2002, Connelly won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and many other awards for her role as Alicia Nash in Ron Howard's 2001 John Nash biopic A Beautiful Mind. Other film appearances by Connelly include the 2003 Marvel superhero film Hulk, the 2005 thriller Dark Water, the drama Blood Diamond, the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and the romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You.
Since 2005, Connelly has served as Amnesty International Ambassador for Human Rights Education for the United States. Magazines, including Time,Vanity Fair, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Times, have included her on their lists of the most beautiful women.
o 2.1 Child model
o 2.2 Early career
o 2.3 Early 2000s
o 2.4 2005–2007
o 2.5 2008–2011
* 3 Personal life
* 4 Filmography
* 5 References
* 6 External links
Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains of New York state, the daughter of Ilene, an antiques dealer, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer Her father was Roman Catholic, and of Irish and Norwegian descent; her mother was Jewish, a descendant of immigrants from Russia and Poland and was schooled in a yeshiva Connelly was raised in Brooklyn Heights, near the Brooklyn Bridge, and attended St. Ann's private school except for the four years the family spent living in Woodstock, New York
"Monologue of Love"
Single by Jennifer Connelly
A-side Monologue of Love
B-side Message of Love
Released December 1986
One of her father's friends was an advertising executive, who suggested that she should audition in order to become a child model She was represented by Ford modeling agency At age ten, Connelly started her career in newspaper and magazine advertising, then moved to television commercials. In 1984, she appeared in Duran Duran's concept concert video "Arena (An Absurd Notion From 1986 to 1992, she appeared in several issues of Seventeen as well as in the Japanese magazine Roadshow and on December 1986, recorded the pop single “Monologue of Love” singing in phonetic Japanese
These appearances led to movie auditions and a film role was as Deborah Gelly, a supporting role in Sergio Leone's 1984 gangster epic, Once Upon a Time in America,filmed mostly in 1982 when she was eleven She next starred in Italian horror-director Dario Argento's 1985 film Phenomena and in the coming-of-age movie Seven Minutes in HeavenBalancing work and school, she studied English and Drama for the two following years at Yale University before transferring to Stanford University to train in classical theater and improvisation with Roy London, Howard Fine and Harold Guskin. She did not graduate
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