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).
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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] |