Jennifer Connelly actress

Jennifer Connelly actress (conceived December 12, 1970) is an American entertainer. She started her vocation as a youngster model prior to making her acting presentation in the 1984 wrongdoing film Sometime in the distant past in America. Following a couple of additional long stretches of demonstrating, she started to focus on acting, featuring in different movies including the thriller Peculiarities (1985), the melodic dream film Maze (1986), the lighthearted comedy Profession Open doors (1991), and the period hero film The Rocketeer (1991). She got acclaim for her exhibition in the sci-fi film Dim City (1998) and playing a medication junkie in Darren Aronofsky’s theatrics film Memorial for a Fantasy (2000).

Jennifer Connelly actress
Jennifer Connelly actress

Connelly won the Foundation Grant for Best Supporting Entertainer for her depiction of Alicia Nash in Ron Howard’s biopic A Lovely Psyche (2001). Her resulting films incorporate the superhuman film Mass (2003), the show Place of Sand and Haze (2003), the blood and gore movie Dim Water (2005), the mental show Small kids (2006), the thrill ride Blood Jewel (2006), the sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stopped (2008), and the rom-com He’s Simply Not That Into You (2009). In the resulting many years, she took on supporting jobs in Aronofsky’s scriptural legendary film Noah (2014) and in the activity films Alita: Fight Heavenly messenger (2019) and Top Weapon: Free thinker (2022). She likewise featured in the sci-fi TV series Snowpiercer (2020-2022) and Dull Matter (2024).

Connelly was named Absolution Global Diplomat for Basic liberties Schooling in 2005. She has been the substance of Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton design promotions, as well concerning Revlon beauty care products. In 2012, she was named the primary worldwide face of the Shiseido Organization. Magazines, including Time, Vanity Fair, and Esquire, as well as the Los Angeles Times paper, have remembered her for their arrangements of the world’s most gorgeous ladies.

Early life

Jennifer Lynn Connelly was brought into the world on December 12, 1970,[1] in Round Top, a villa in Cairo, New York, US. She is the just child[2] of Ilene Carol[3] (née Schumann;[4] 1942[5]-2013), an old fashioned vendor, and Gerard Connelly (passed on 2008),[6] a dress manufacturer.[7] Her dad was a Catholic of Irish and Norwegian plummet, while her mom was Jewish[8][9][10] and was taught at a yeshiva.[11][12] Connelly’s maternal progenitors were Jewish migrants from Poland and Russia. Connelly was brought principally up in Brooklyn Levels, where she went to Holy person Ann’s School.[13] Her dad experienced asthma so the family moved to Woodstock in 1976 to get away from the city smog.[14] Four years after the fact, they got back to Brooklyn Levels, and Connelly got back to Holy person Ann’s School.[15]

In the wake of moving on from secondary school in 1988, Connelly went to Yale College to concentrate on English writing. She has portrayed herself as a principled understudy who “wasn’t exactly worried about having a public activity or dozing or eating a lot. I was truly geeky and essentially remained in the graduate school library, which is open 24 hours, more often than not I wasn’t in class.”[16] Following two years at Yale, Connelly moved to Stanford College to concentrate on show. There, she prepared with Roy London, Howard Fine, and Harold Guskin.[17] Urged by her folks to go on with her film career,[7] Connelly left school and got back to the entertainment world the equivalent year.[18] Her folks separated in 2000.[6]

Career

1980–1985: Modeling and early roles

Jennifer Connelly actress Modeling for magazines

At the point when Connelly was a decade old, a publicizing leader companion of her dad recommended she tryout as a model.[19] Her folks sent an image of her to the Portage Displaying Organization, which soon after added her to its program. Connelly started demonstrating for print promotions prior to continuing on toward TV commercials.[7][20] In a meeting with The Gatekeeper, that’s what she uncovered, in the wake of having done some displaying, she had no yearnings to turn into an actress.[21] She showed up on the fronts of a few issues of the American teen magazine Seventeen of every 1986 and 1988.[22][23][24][25] In December 1986, she recorded two pop melodies for the Japanese market: “Speech of Adoration” and “Message of Love”.[26] She sang in phonetic Japanese as she didn’t communicate in the language.

Early roles

At the point when her mom started taking her to acting tryouts, a then 11 year-old Connelly was immediately chosen for a supporting job as the hopeful artist and entertainer Deborah Gelly in Sergio Leone’s Jewish criminal legendary Some time ago in America (recorded 1982-83, delivered 1984).[13][20] The job expected her to play out an artful dance schedule. During the tryout, Connelly, who had no artful dance preparing, attempted to copy a ballet performer. Her presentation, and the closeness of her nose to Elizabeth Mcgovern’s, who played the person as a grown-up, persuaded the chief to project her.[2][27] Connelly depicted the film as “an inconceivably untainted prologue to film making”.[28]

Jennifer Connelly actress
Jennifer Connelly actress

Connelly’s most memorable driving job was in Italian giallo-chief Dario Argento’s 1985 film Peculiarities. In the film, she plays a young lady who mystically speaks with bugs to seek after the enemy of understudies of the Swiss school where she has enrolled.[29] During recording, she was gone after by a chimpanzee and was nibbled on the finger.[30][31] Connelly next had the lead in the transitioning film Seven Minutes in Paradise, delivered the equivalent year.[32] In a review interview, Connelly said, “In a flash, [acting] became what I did. It was an extremely curious method for growing up, joined with my personality.”[21] She portrayed feeling like “a sort of strolling manikin” through her youth, without having time alone to manage the consideration her vocation was creating.

1986–1999: Mainstream films

Connelly earned public respect with Jim Henson’s 1986 dream Maze with David Bowie, in which she played Sarah Williams, a young person on a mission to safeguard her sibling Toby from the universe of trolls. Albeit a failure at the crate office,[33] the film later turned into a faction classic.[34] The New York Times, while noticing the significance of her part, panned her depiction: “Jennifer Connelly as Sarah is sadly frustrating. … She looks right, however she needs conviction and is by all accounts perusing practiced lines that are presented without confidence in her objective or genuine need to achieve it.”[35] In 1988, she started function as an expressive dance understudy in the Italian film Etoile which was delivered in 1989,[36] and depicted undergrad Gabby in Michael Hoffman’s Some Girls.[37]

In 1990, Dennis Container coordinated The Problem area, in which Connelly played Gloria Harper, a lady being blackmailed.[38] The film was a film industry disappointment however Connelly was praised.[19] Stephen Schaefer composed for USA Today, “Anybody searching for verification that young ladies truly do grow up quick in the motion pictures ought to look at well proportioned Jennifer Connelly […] in The Problem area. Not yet 20, Connelly has conveniently dealt with the progress from kid entertainer to ingenue”. During a meeting with Shaeffer, Connelly remarked on her most memorable naked scene: “The bareness was hard for myself and something I thought about…but it’s not in a shabby context”.[19] around the same time, chief Garry Marshall thought about her for the job of Vivian Ward in Beautiful Lady, in any case felt that she was excessively youthful for the part.[39]

Jennifer Connelly actress
Jennifer Connelly actress

Connelly’s next film was the 1991 lighthearted comedy Vocation Potential open doors, featuring close by Straightforward Whaley.[40] Individuals condemned the film for taking advantage of Connelly’s body; the showcasing incorporated a day to day existence size cardboard pattern showing Whaley watching Connelly ride a mechanical pony, with the subtitle “He’s going to have the ride of his life”.[20] In a meeting with Drifter, Connelly said that a Yale teacher drew it out into the open and “… that wasn’t something I felt all that agreeable about”.[28] The huge financial plan Disney movie The Rocketeer (1991) followed soon thereafter, however neglected to light her career.[41] She played Jenny Blake, a Disney weakening of what was in the first work a Betty Page persona, here the hopeful entertainer sweetheart of trick pilot Bluff, “the Rocketeer”.[42] New York described the movie as “gray” yet said to describe her presentation, “Connelly is appropriately projected; she has the wet, full-to-the-cheek-bones sexiness of the Hollywood celebrities of that period, yet she’s a little straight”.[43] She showed up close by Jason Priestley in the Roy Orbison music video for “I Drove Throughout the Evening” the next year, coordinated by Peter Care.[44][45]

Connelly next showed up in Of Adoration and Shadows, a 1994 Argentine-American show movie composed and coordinated by Betty Kaplan featuring Antonio Banderas. In 1995, chief John Singleton cast Connelly as a lesbian undergrad in Higher Learning.[46] She then showed up in the 1996 free film Far Harbor as Elie, an unmistakable individual in a Hollywood studio who composes a screenplay in view of her traumas.[47]

Jennifer Connelly actress
Jennifer Connelly actress

In 1996, Connelly circled back to the neo-noir wrongdoing thrill ride Mulholland Falls, which highlighted the homicide of Allison Lake (Connelly), escort of General Timms (John Malkovich), and the examination by a gathering of analysts drove by Maxwell Hoover (Scratch Nolte).[48] New York expounded on a scene that uncovers the connection among Timms and Lake: “This recording is really filthy. That is, it causes us to feel like voyeurs while seeing it, yet it’s so juicily sensual that we can barely look away”.[49] In regards to the naked scenes in the film, Connelly said: “It sort of stunned every individual who knows me that I ended up doing this film, since I had forever been so cautious about nakedness, it was a lot of a piece of this person and I was unable to be shy or protected or unsure — any other way it wouldn’t work. It was somewhat of a test I needed to take on, I guess”.[19] Mulholland Falls was a film industry failure.[50]

She started to show up in little financial plan films which earned acclaim from pundits, for example, 1997’s theatrics Creating the Abbotts, set in the last part of the 1950s, in which she filled the role of Eleanor, one of three girls of the town mogul, Lloyd Abbott.[51] The pundit from Diversion Week after week thought Connelly gave areas of strength for a; composing she “ups the ante any time she’s on screen”.[52] Co-maker Ron Howard, who might later direct Connelly in A Lovely Brain, said, “She not exclusively was wonderful and tempting however gave a few troublesome mental minutes in the movie a ton of profundity and intricacy. She had an exceptional blend of ability and magnificence, and I surmise I put away that data toward the rear of my brain”.[19]

Her next appearance was in the widely praised 1998 sci-fi film Dull City, in which she played close by Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Ian Richardson and Kiefer Sutherland.[53] Connelly depicted femme fatale Emma, a light vocalist whose spouse, John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell), experiences amnesia. As Murdoch is recapturing his recollections, Emma is hijacked by Mr. Hand (Richard O’Brien) and The Outsiders, who modify her recollections and relegate her a new identity.[54][55] Creator Sean McMullen expressed, “Jennifer Connelly is outwardly stunning as the 1940s femme fatale (Emma).

Jennifer Connelly Personal life

While recording The Rocketeer, Connelly started a sentiment with her co-star Billy Campbell. They became engaged[28] yet separated in 1996 following five years together.[131] Connelly then had a relationship with photographic artist David Dugan, with whom she has a child, brought into the world in 1997.[132][133]

On January 1, 2003, in a confidential family function in Scotland, she wedded entertainer Paul Bettany, whom she had met while dealing with A Wonderful Mind.[134] They have two youngsters, a child, brought into the world in 2003, and a little girl, brought into the world in 2011.[135][136] Subsequent to living respectively in Tribeca, she and Bettany moved to Brooklyn Heights.[137]

Jennifer Connelly actress Charity work

On November 14, 2005, Connelly was named Absolution Global Representative for Basic freedoms Education.[138] She showed up in a commercial featuring the worldwide requirement for clean water, and looked for gifts for African, Indian, and Focal American penetrating tasks for the non-benefit association Noble cause: Water.[139] On May 2, 2009, she partook in Revlon’s yearly 5k Run/Stroll for Women.[140] In May 2012, Connelly was named diplomat for Save the Youngsters reserve, to advocate for kids’ privileges in the US and worldwide.[141]

In the media

Distributions, for example, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Times have positioned her among the most gorgeous ladies in the world.[142][143][144] Parisian design house Balenciaga and Revlon beauty care products marked Connelly as the essence of their 2008 campaigns.[145][146]

Jennifer Connelly actress

In February 2012, Connelly was reported as the main worldwide brand diplomat for Shiseido, having recently worked with the organization during the 1980s in a progression of promotions for the Japanese market.[147] Beginning around 2015, Connelly is the House Representative for French extravagance design house Louis Vuitton.[148]

Filmography

Jennifer Connelly actress Film

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Year Title Role Director Notes
1984 Once Upon a Time in America Deborah Gelly (young) Sergio Leone
1985 Phenomena Jennifer Corvino Dario Argento
Seven Minutes in Heaven Natalie Becker Linda Feferman
1986 Labyrinth Sarah Williams Jim Henson
1988 Some Girls Gabriella d’Arc Michael Hoffman
1989 Etoile Claire Hamilton / Natalie Horvath Peter Del Monte
1990 The Hot Spot Gloria Harper Dennis Hopper
1991 Career Opportunities Joséphine “Josie” MacClellan Bryan Gordon
The Rocketeer Jennifer “Jenny” Blake Joe Johnston
1994 Of Love and Shadows Irene Betty Kaplan
1995 Higher Learning Taryn John Singleton
1996 Mulholland Falls Allison Pond Lee Tamahori
Far Harbor Ellie John Huddles
1997 Inventing the Abbotts Eleanor Abbott Pat O’Connor
1998 Dark City Emma Murdoch / Anna Alex Proyas
2000 Waking the Dead Sarah Williams Keith Gordon
Requiem for a Dream Marion Silver Darren Aronofsky
Pollock Ruth Kligman Ed Harris
2001 A Beautiful Mind Alicia Nash Ron Howard
2003 Hulk Elizabeth “Betty” Ross Ang Lee
House of Sand and Fog Katherine “Kathy” Niccolo Vadim Perelman
2005 Dark Water Dahlia Williams Walter Salles
2006 Little Children Katherine “Kathy” Adamson Todd Field
Blood Diamond Madeleine “Maddy” Bowen Edward Zwick
2007 Reservation Road Grace Learner Terry George
2008 The Day the Earth Stood Still Helen Benson Scott Derrickson
Inkheart Roxanne Iain Softley Cameo
2009 He’s Just Not That Into You Janine Gunders Ken Kwapis
9 7 Shane Acker Voice
Creation Emma Darwin Jon Amiel
2010 Virginia Virginia Dustin Lance Black
2011 The Dilemma Elizabeth “Beth” Ron Howard
Salvation Boulevard Gwen Vanderveer George Ratliff
2012 Stuck in Love Erica Josh Boone
2014 Winter’s Tale Virginia Gamely Akiva Goldsman
Aloft Nana Kunning Claudia Llosa
Noah Naameh Darren Aronofsky
Shelter Hannah Paul Bettany
2016 American Pastoral Dawn Dwyer Ewan McGregor
2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming Karen / Suit Lady Jon Watts Voice
Only the Brave Amanda Marsh Joseph Kosinski
2019 Alita: Battle Angel Dr. Chiren Robert Rodriguez
2022 Top Gun: Maverick Penelope “Penny” Benjamin Joseph Kosinski
2023 Bad Behaviour Lucy Alice Englert

Television

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Year(s) Title Role Notes
1992 The Heart of Justice Emma Burgess Television film
2000–2001 The $treet Catherine Miller Main role, 12 episodes
2020–2024 Snowpiercer Melanie Cavill Main role
2024 Dark Matter Daniela Dessen Main role

Music videos

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Year Title Performer Role
1983 “Union of the Snake” Duran Duran Underground cult member
1984 “The Seventh Stranger” (from As the Lights Go Down) Duran Duran Girl in spotlight
1987 “Always with Me, Always with You” Joe Satriani Girl
1992 “I Drove All Night” Roy Orbison The young woman
2007 “Killers Kill, Dead Men Die” Vanity Fair The informer (credit only)

Jennifer Connelly Awards and nominations

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Association Year Category Work Result Ref.
Academy Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress A Beautiful Mind Won [149]
American Film Institute Awards 2002 Featured Actress of the Year Won [150]
British Academy Film Awards 2002 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Won [151]
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress Nominated [152]
Chlotrudis Awards 2001 Best Supporting Actress Requiem for a Dream Nominated [153]
Critics’ Choice Movie Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress A Beautiful Mind Won [154]
2004 Best Actress House of Sand and Fog Nominated [155]
Critics’ Choice Super Awards 2021 Best Actress in an Action Series Snowpiercer Nominated [156]
2023 Best Actress in an Action Movie Top Gun: Maverick Nominated [157]
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress A Beautiful Mind Nominated [158]
Empire Awards 2003 Best Actress Nominated [159]
Golden Globe Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Won [160]
Hollywood Film Awards 2007 Supporting Actress of the Year Reservation Road Won [161]
Independent Spirit Awards 2001 Best Supporting Female Requiem for a Dream Nominated [162]
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2001 Best Supporting Actress Nominated [163]
Best Ensemble Nominated
2002 Best Supporting Actress A Beautiful Mind Won [164]
Satellite Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Won [165]
2004 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama House of Sand and Fog Nominated [166]
Saturn Awards 1992 Best Supporting Actress The Rocketeer Nominated [167]
2004 Best Actress Hulk Nominated [168]
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2002 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role A Beautiful Mind Nominated [169]
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2004 Best Actress House of Sand and Fog Runner-up [170]

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