BIOGRAPHY

Occupation - Actress
Date of Birth - December 12 1970
Birth Place - Catskill Mountains, New York, USA
Residence - Hollwood, California, USA
Height - 5' 7½" (1.71 m)
Eyes: Green
Hair: Black
Education: Graduated Saint Ann's school in Brooklyn Heights, NYC.


Maritial Status: Married Paul Bettany
(1 January 2003 - present) 1 child.
Dated Bill Campbell 1990-1995.

Jennifer Lynn Connelly grew up in Brooklyn Heights, NYC, just across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, except for the four years her family spent in upstate Woodstock, New York. Back in Brooklyn Heights she attended St. Ann's school. Her father was in the garment industry, and a close friend of the family was an advertising executive. When Jennifer was 10, the friend suggested that her parents take her to a modeling audition. She began appearing in newspaper and magazine ads (among them,"Seventeen" magazine) and soon moved on to TV commercials. She speaks fluent Italian and French.

A casting director saw her and introduced her to Sergio Leone, who was seeking a young girl to dance in his gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Although having little screen time in the film, the few minutes she was on-screen were enough to reveal her talent. After Leone's movie, horror master Dario Argento signed her to play her first starring role in his thriller Phenomena (1985). The film was a blockbuster hit in Europe but unfortunately was heavily cut for the American distribution of the film.

After highschool graduation she enrolled at Yale, then transferred two years later to Stanford. Her first film appearance after that was a British TV series "Tales of the Unexpected" (1979) in 1984. Was a member of Gold's Gym in Venice for a year or two, but is no longer active. Enjoys physical activities such as swimming, gymnastics, bike riding. Is an outdoors person -- camping, hiking and walking. Is interested in Quantum Physics, philosophy and art. Trained in classical theater and improvisation she studied with the late drama coach Roy London, Howard Fine and Harold Guskin.

She also appeared in a rock video "I Drove All Night", a Roy Orbison song, co-starring Jason Priestley. Jennifer even released a music single called "Monologue of Love" in Japan in the mid-'80s, in which she sings in Japanese a charming little song with semi-classical instruments arrangement. B-side is "Message Of Love", which is an interview with music in background.

She did many movies as a teen star in the late 80's including Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985), Labyrinth (1986), Étoile (1988), as a ballerina, and in Some Girls (1988), where she played a sexy self absorbed college freshman. (1988). Her sexy fresh look was an instant hit with casting directors. The smash hit was Labyrinth (1986), released in 1986. Jennifer got the job after a nation-wide talent search for the lead in this fantasy directed by Jim Henson and produced by George Lucas.

Her career sort of stalled after those films, until Dennis Hopper, who was impressed after having seen her in 'Some Girls', cast Jennifer as an a sexy ingénue small-town girl in The Hot Spot, (1990/I), based on the fifties crime novel "Hell Hath No Fury". It received mixed critical reviews, but it was not a box office success. She was even "engaged" in an unconventional sense, i.e. no real plans to marry, to Bill Campbell, her next co-star in Disney's The Rocketeer (1991). They were together on and off for about five years after that.

Critics saw in "Rocketeer" a top-quality big budget movie, a homage to those old films of the 30s in which the likes of Errol Flynn starred. After Rocketeer, Jennifer made Career Opportunities (1991), still the hottie starlett was way under rated at this point and may have carried some former child star baggage. Few projects would fillow for years after with films like, The Heart of Justice (1993) (TV), Mulholland Falls (1996) and Inventing the Abbotts (1997). Jennifer begins to shed her good girl child star image in many hot steamy scenes revealing her incredible body of acting.

In 1998 she was invited by director Alex Proyas to make Dark City (1998), a strange, visually stunning science fiction extravaganza. In this movie, Jennifer played the main character's wife, and she delivered an acclaimed performance. The film itself didn't break any box-office record but received positive reviews. This led Jennifer to a contract with Fox for the TV series "The $treet" (2000) and a main part in the memorable and dramatic love-story Waking the Dead (2000/I), and more important, a breakthrough part in the polemic and applauded independent Requiem for a Dream (2000), a tale about the haunting lives of drug addicts and the subsequent process of them losing control of their lives to sex and drugs. In Requiem, Jennifer had her career's most courageous, difficult part, a performance that earned her a Spirit Award Nomination.

She followed this role with Pollock (2000), in which she played Pollock's mistress, Ruth Klingman. Most recently, Ron Howard chose her to co-star with Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind (2001), the film that tells the true story of John Forbes Nash Jr., a man who suffered from mental illness but eventually beats this and wins the Nobel Prize in 1994. Jennifer plays Forbes' wife and won a Golden Globe, BAFTA, AFI and Oscar as Best Supporting Actress.

She is fairly level-headed and grounded as a person, and is not overly seduced by the Hollywood fantasy. She likes horses, Pearl Jam, SoundGarden, Jesus Jones. Occasionally wears a small picture of the Dalai Lama on a necklace. She would go on to appear in Hulk (2003) and House of Sand and Fog (2003) and Dark Water (2005). She her in "The Blood Diamond" December (2006) !

FACTS


Son, Kai Dugan, born. Father is photographer David Dugan. [July 1997]

Cut a single in Japan, which she sang in phonetic Japanese. She says her agent made up the idea that she is semi-fluent in the language.

Speaks fluent Italian and French.

Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.

The character "Veronica" in Heathers (1989) was originally written with her in mind, but she turned the role down.

Daughter-in-law of actor Thane Bettany.

1st child with husband Paul Bettany, a son named Stellan, born 5 August 2003.

Measurements: 34C/D-22-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Her father is of Irish and Norwegian heritage and her mother is of Russian and Polish descent.

Two sons: Kai Dugan and Stellan Bettany

Named her son Stellan after Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård.

In three of her movies - Dark City (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), and House of Sand and Fog (2003) - she appears standing at the end of a pier in a striking image. All three directors created the shots for different reasons, and they are not an homage or reference to each other, just an unlikely coincidence.

She was nearly cast as Diane Court in Cameron Crowe's Say Anything... (1989). Ione Skye got the part instead.

Enrolled at Yale as an English major, then transferred two years later to Stanford

Has said she used to use the online username "ecksor", which is a phonetic spelling of XOR (Exclusive OR) - a tribute to her cousin Jerry who is a computer security expert.

Ranked #14 in Celebrity Sleuth's "25 Sexiest Women of 1993".

Ranked #53 in Stuff's "103 Sexiest Women"(2003)

Ranked #74 in FHM-USA's "100 Sexiest Women"(2002)

Ranked #85 in Askmen's "Most Desirable Woman"(2002)

Ranked as #88 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)

Is a vegan.

Has an interest in mathematics and software.



QUOTES


"Acting is great. When it works it is so fulfilling. You do the research and work with other talented people who are creative and compassionate and use all your faculties. The ability to express yourself completely is the most wonderful feeling in the world. Each film is a chapter in my life wherein I learn so much more about myself."

"I so much enjoy being able to completely allow myself to be consumed by a role, and really grow in the process,once you've done that, it's hard to go back working on things you don't care about."

[talking about the films she did in the beginning of her career]: "You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!"

[Talking about her character in A Beautiful Mind (2001)]: "Alicia is the person who's trying to ground John Nash in reality and bring him home, literally, and back to what he was. In A Beautiful Mind (2001), there are scenes that were painful and scary and sad. I didn't have to go through degradation as I did in Requiem for a Dream (2000), but there is a lot of emotional terrain in this movie. There's a tragedy in the family, and it takes a toll on each of them as they try to live with each other".

[talking about her son Kai]: "We've already done plays together. Very short plays. He dictates them to me. Sometimes he casts me, sometimes he doesn't. And when I'm in the play, he'll sometimes say to me, 'No Mom, you didn't say that right!'"

"I wore a beautiful silver ball gown, which was a refreshing change from the blue jeans I wore in almost every other scene. It was really a gorgeous set, with masses of huge chandeliers and thousands of flickering candles, hundreds of silken cushions and curtains, and masses of people in strange masks and ornate dresses. There was the thrill of dancing with David Bowie to one of the songs he composed especially for the film. There wasn't enough room, for technical reasons, to really dance around properly, but we just drifted slowly and gracefully (I hope!) to David's music, and he looked fabulous! It's all a sort of magical fantasy sequence inside a huge bubble." -- Jennifer on "The Ball Room Dance" scene, her favorite from Labyrinth (1986).

[about her son]: "I don't think I would be doing this quality of work if it hadn't been for my son. He's changed me. He's helped me to understand myself and find my place in the world.




SALARIES

UNKNOWN



AWARDS

Won a Golden Globe, BAFTA, AFI and Oscar as
Best Supporting Actress. 2001



CONTACT

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