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Jennifer Connelly
Connelly smiling
Connelly in 2010
Born
Jennifer Lynn Connelly

(1970-12-12) December 12, 1970 (age 53)
Education
OccupationActress
Years active1982–present
Spouse
(m. 2003)
Children3

Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American actress. She began her career as a child model before making her acting debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America. After a few more years of modeling, she began to concentrate on acting, starring in a variety of films including the horror film Phenomena (1985), the musical fantasy film Labyrinth (1986), the romantic comedy Career Opportunities (1991), and the period superhero film The Rocketeer (1991). She received praise for her performance in the science fiction film Dark City (1998) and playing a drug addict in Darren Aronofsky's drama film Requiem for a Dream (2000).

In 2002, Connelly won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Alicia Nash in Ron Howard's biopic A Beautiful Mind (2001). Her subsequent films include the superhero film Hulk (2003), the horror film Dark Water (2005), the psychological drama Little Children (2006), the drama film Blood Diamond (2006), the science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), the romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You (2009), and the biopic Creation (2009). In the subsequent decades, she took on supporting roles in Aronofsky's biblical epic film Noah (2014) and in the action films Alita: Battle Angel (2019) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). She starred in the TNT dystopian television series Snowpiercer from 2020 to 2022.

Connelly was named Amnesty International Ambassador for Human Rights Education in 2005. She has been the face of Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton fashion advertisements, as well as for Revlon cosmetics. In 2012, she was named the first global face of the Shiseido Company. Magazines, including Time, Vanity Fair, and Esquire, as well as the Los Angeles Times newspaper, have included her on their lists of the world's most beautiful women.

Early life

Jennifer Lynn Connelly

Woodstock, New York, in 1976, to escape the city smog.[8] Four years later, the family returned to Brooklyn Heights, and Connelly returned to Saint Ann's School.[1]

After graduating from high school in 1988, Connelly went to Yale University to study English literature. She has described herself as a conscientious student who "wasn't really concerned with having a social life or sleeping or eating much. I was really nerdy and pretty much stayed in the law school library, which is open 24 hours, most of the time I wasn't in class."[16] After two years at Yale, Connelly transferred to Stanford University to study drama. There, she trained with Roy London, Howard Fine, and Harold Guskin.[17] Encouraged by her parents to continue with her film career,[9] Connelly left college and returned to the film industry the same year.[18]

Career

1980–1985: Modeling and early roles

Modeling for magazines

When Connelly was ten years old, an advertising executive friend of her father suggested she audition as a model.[19] Her parents sent a picture of her to the Ford Modeling Agency, which shortly after added her to its roster. Connelly began modeling for print advertisements before moving on to television commercials.[9][20] In an interview with The Guardian, she revealed that, after having done some modeling, she had no aspirations to become an actress.[21] She appeared on the covers of several issues of the American teenage magazine Seventeen in 1986 and 1988.[22][23][24][25] In December 1986, she recorded two pop songs for the Japanese market: "Monologue of Love" and "Message of Love".[26] She sang in phonetic Japanese as she did not speak the language.[20]

Early roles

When her mother began taking her to acting auditions, a then 11 year-old Connelly was quickly selected for a supporting role as the aspiring dancer and actress Deborah Gelly in Sergio Leone's Jewish gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America (filmed 1982–83, released 1984).[10][20] The role required her to perform a ballet routine. During the audition, Connelly, who had no ballet training, tried to imitate a ballerina. Her performance, and the similarity of her nose to Elizabeth McGovern's, who played the character as an adult, convinced the director to cast her.[3][27] Connelly described the film as "an incredibly idyllic introduction to movie-making".[28]

Connelly's first leading role was in Italian giallo-director Dario Argento's 1985 film Phenomena. In the film, she plays a girl who psychically communicates with insects to pursue the killer of students of the Swiss school where she has enrolled.[29] During filming, she was attacked by a chimpanzee and was bitten on the finger.[30][31] Connelly next had the lead in the coming-of-age film Seven Minutes in Heaven, released the same year.[32] In a retrospective interview, Connelly said, "Before I knew it, [acting] became what I did. It was a very peculiar way to grow up, combined with my personality."[21] She described feeling like "a kind of walking puppet" through her adolescence, without having time alone to deal with the attention her career was generating.[21]

1986–1999: Mainstream films

Connelly gained public recognition with

Michael Hoffman's Some Girls.[37]

In 1990, Dennis Hopper directed The Hot Spot, in which Connelly played Gloria Harper, a woman being blackmailed.[38] The film was a box office failure but Connelly was praised.[19] Stephen Schaefer wrote for USA Today, "Anyone looking for proof that little girls do grow up fast in the movies should take a gander at curvaceous Jennifer Connelly [...] in The Hot Spot. Not yet 20, Connelly has neatly managed the transition from child actress to ingenue". During an interview with Shaeffer, Connelly commented on her first nude scene: "The nudity was hard for me and something I thought about...but it's not in a sleazy context".[19] In the same year, director Garry Marshall considered her for the role of Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman, but ultimately felt that she was too young for the part.[39]

Connelly's next film was the 1991 romantic comedy

Betty Page persona, here the aspiring actress girlfriend of stunt pilot Cliff, "the Rocketeer".[42] New York characterized the film as "pallid" but said of her performance, "Connelly is properly cast; she has the moist, full-to-the-cheek bones sensuality of the Hollywood starlets of that period, but she's a little straight".[43] She appeared alongside Jason Priestley in the Roy Orbison music video for "I Drove All Night" the following year, directed by Peter Care.[44][45]

Connelly next appeared in Of Love and Shadows, a 1994 Argentine-American drama film written and directed by Betty Kaplan starring Antonio Banderas. In 1995, director John Singleton cast Connelly as a lesbian college student in Higher Learning.[46] She then appeared in the 1996 independent film Far Harbor as Elie, a prominent person in a Hollywood studio who writes a screenplay based on her traumas.[47]

In 1996, Connelly followed up with the neo-noir crime thriller Mulholland Falls, which featured the murder of Allison Pond (Connelly), mistress of General Timms (John Malkovich), and the investigation by a group of detectives led by Maxwell Hoover (Nick Nolte).[48] New York wrote about a scene that reveals the link between Timms and Pond: "This footage is actually dirty. That is, it makes us feel like voyeurs when looking at it, but it's so juicily erotic that we can hardly look away".[49] Regarding the nude scenes in the film, Connelly said: "It kind of shocked everyone who knows me that I wound up doing this movie, because I had always been so careful about nudity, it was very much a part of this character and I couldn't be coy or guarded or self-conscious—otherwise it wouldn't work. It was sort of a challenge I wanted to take on, I guess".[19] Mulholland Falls was a box office failure.[50]

She began to appear in small-budget films which garnered praise from critics, such as 1997's drama Inventing the Abbotts, set in the late 1950s, in which she played the part of Eleanor, one of three daughters of the town millionaire, Lloyd Abbott.[51] The critic from Entertainment Weekly thought Connelly gave a strong performance; writing she "raises the stakes any time she's on screen".[52] Co-producer Ron Howard, who would later direct Connelly in A Beautiful Mind, said, "She not only was beautiful and seductive but gave some difficult psychological moments in the film a lot of depth and complexity. She had an extraordinary combination of talent and beauty, and I guess I stored that information in the back of my brain".[19]

Her next appearance was in the critically acclaimed 1998 science fiction film Dark City, in which she played alongside Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Ian Richardson and Kiefer Sutherland.[53] Connelly portrayed femme fatale Emma, a torch singer whose husband, John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell), suffers from amnesia. As Murdoch is regaining his memories, Emma is kidnapped by Mr. Hand (Richard O'Brien) and The Strangers, who alter her memories and assign her a new identity.[54][55] Author Sean McMullen wrote, "Jennifer Connelly is visually splendid as the 1940s femme fatale (Emma)."[56]

2000–2003: Worldwide recognition

In 2000,

brokerage house in New York.[59]

She appeared in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, based on the novel of the same name by Hubert Selby Jr.[60] Connelly was drawn to the script for its depiction of addiction and its effects on relatives;[61] she played Marion Silver, the girlfriend of Harry (Jared Leto). The film also starred Marlon Wayans and Ellen Burstyn.[62][63] Marion is a middle-class girl from Manhattan Beach who pursues the dream of establishing a dress shop, but becomes addicted to heroin and descends into a life of prostitution.[64] Connelly prepared for the role by renting an apartment in the building where the character lived; Connelly isolated herself, painted, listened to music that she considered that her character would, designed clothes, and used the time to reflect about addictions and their origin. Connelly also talked to addicts and attended Narcotics Anonymous meetings with a friend who was in recovery.[19] The cast garnered critical acclaim for their portrayal of physical and mental degradation.[65]

The critic Elvis Mitchell wrote in The New York Times:

Ms. Connelly, too, whittled herself down to a new weight class, and it's her performance that gives the movie weight, since her fall is the most precipitous. By the end, when she curls into a happy fetal ball with a furtive smile on her face, she has come to love her debasement.... Her dank realization is more disturbing than anything in the novel, and Ms. Connelly has never before done anything to prepare us for how good she is here.[65]

Also in 2000, Connelly appeared in Waking the Dead, based on the 1986 novel of the same name, playing Sarah Williams, an activist killed by a car bomb in Minneapolis while she was driving Chilean refugees.[66] Initially, director Keith Gordon was reluctant to cast Connelly in this role as he did not consider her a serious actress. Her agent Risa Shapiro persuaded him to watch Connelly's performance in Far Harbor. Gordon later said: "There was a subtlety and depth even to her gaze that captured more of the relationship than I ever could have hoped for."[27] About her role, Connelly said, "Waking the Dead was the first film I worked on where whatever I did felt like my own thing. I was really trying to make something of the part and threw myself into it, so that meant a lot to me".[67] The New York Times described her performance, "As Sarah, Ms. Connelly captures a burning ethereality and willfulness that are very much of the period. And she and Mr. Crudup connect powerfully in love scenes that convey the fierce tenderness of a relationship whose passion carries a tinge of religious fervor."[68]

The script of

A.O. Scott of The New York Times said, "There is, for one thing, Ms. Connelly, keen and spirited in the underwritten role of a woman who starts out as a math groupie and soon finds herself the helpmeet of a disturbed, difficult man."[78]

Connelly said afterwards, "[A Beautiful Mind] is the film I'm really proud of and really love."[46] In relation to previous roles, Connelly said:

There was a period where I felt like I wasn't quite being considered for the projects that I wanted to work on because maybe people were thinking. 'I'm not going to cast the girl who was in that movie for this adult project.' I've felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel really strongly about and the rest of the time just live my life.[19]

Connelly starred in

Bruce Banner. The film was a moderate success.[80]

Next in 2003, she appeared in House of Sand and Fog, a drama based on the novel by Andre Dubus III. She portrayed Kathy Nicolo, an abandoned wife whose inherited house is sold at auction to the Iranian emigre and former colonel Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley).[81] After reading the script, Connelly said: "(the story is) moving and beautifully written. I liked the fact that there is no good guy and bad guy. I found it really compelling that both sides do things that are morally questionable, because life is often like that." Producer Michael London said about Connelly's portrayal: "I think she understood Kathy and knew in her bones that she could take this character and give her the kind of dimension that she had. I don't think there is another actress who could have played Kathy with such power and grace."[82] The film was critically acclaimed, with a BBC critic commenting, "[Connelly] convinces totally as a selfish, desperate and lonely woman who confesses to her brother, 'I just feel lost'".[83]

2004–2009: Hiatus and return to film

Connelly in 2005

After a two-year absence from the film scene, Connelly returned in the 2005 horror-psychological thriller Dark Water, which was based on a 2002 Japanese film of the same name.[20] She played Dahlia, a frightened young woman traumatized by her past, who moves with her daughter to an apartment in New York City where paranormal happenings take place.[84] In his review, critic Roger Ebert wrote, "I cared about the Jennifer Connelly character; she is not a horror heroine but an actress playing a mother faced with horror. There is a difference, and because of that difference, Dark Water works".[85]

She played Kathy Adamson in

blood diamonds.[87] New York magazine praised her performance: "Connelly is such a smart, sane, unhistrionic actress that she almost disguises the fact that her character is a wheeze."[88] Both Little Children and Blood Diamond were nominated for multiple Academy Awards.[89]

Her next appearance was as Grace in the drama Reservation Road with Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo, released in 2007.[90] After her son dies in a hit-and-run, Grace gradually tries to overcome her grief, while her husband Ethan (Phoenix) becomes obsessed with discovering who killed him.[91] By her own account, the character she played in the film proved tougher than any of her previous roles.[92] USA Today's Susan Wloszczyna commented, "The strong performances of Jennifer Connelly and Mark Ruffalo ... raise the film above overheated melodrama".[93]

Connelly portrayed astrobiologist Helen Benson alongside

The Day The Earth Stood Still. Unlike the original, in which Benson was a secretary and her relationship with Klaatu was the focus, the remake featured Benson in a troubled relationship with her stepson, portrayed by Jaden Smith.[94] This was followed by a role in the 2009 romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You, which also featured Jennifer Aniston and Ginnifer Goodwin.[95] The film was based on the self-help book of the same name.[96] Variety magazine praised her portrayal: "Connelly gives a really rich performance as a woman whose principles back her into a corner."[97]

In 2009, she appeared in the costume drama biopic Creation, in which she played Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin, opposite her real-life husband Paul Bettany.[98] Set during the writing of On the Origin of Species, the film depicts Darwin's struggle with the subject of the book as well as with his wife, who opposed his theories, and their mourning for their daughter Anne.[99] The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Darwin's wife, a religious woman who disapproved of her husband's theories, is played by Jennifer Connelly, Bettany's real-life wife, in the kind of casting that doesn't always work, but it does here. We believe in the Darwins' history together, their familiarity and affection. Connelly's English accent is also as good as Renée Zellweger's and Gwyneth Paltrow's. She doesn't get just the sounds right, but also the music and the attitude".[100] Connelly then voiced the character named "7", an adventurous warrior in the animated film 9.[101]

2010–present

Dustin Lance Black's Virginia premiered on September 15, 2010, at the Toronto International Film Festival. Two years later, it was announced that it would receive a limited release in May 2012.[102][103] Connelly portrayed the title role of Virginia, a mentally unstable woman who has a 20-year affair with the local sheriff, whose daughter then starts a relationship with Virginia's son.[104] Connelly prepared for the role by watching documentaries on schizophrenia; she also spent time at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the New York University Cancer Center to understand the affections and obstacles of her character. During preparation, Black requested Connelly's advice to design the set of Virginia's house, as well as the selection of the apparel to create the character's style.[105] Connelly said of the film, "It's very original, I think, and a very different independent film – it's very personal."[106] According to the critic from Cinema Blend, "Virginia is propped up by a strong central performance, with Connelly doing some of her best work in years".[107]

Connelly in 2019

In 2011, Connelly starred in Ron Howard's comedy

Audible.com's The A-List Collection.[113][114]

Her next project, starring alongside Greg Kinnear, was the family drama Stuck in Love, the directorial debut of Josh Boone. Connelly played the ex-wife of Kinnear's character, with whom he is obsessed.[115][116] The film was premiered during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.[117] In August 2013, it was announced that Connelly was cast by her husband, Paul Bettany, in his directorial debut Shelter.[118] Connelly had a role in the 2014 film adaptation of the 1983 Mark Helprin novel, Winter's Tale, the directorial debut of Akiva Goldsman, alongside Colin Farrell, William Hurt and Russell Crowe; as well as starring in the English-speaking directorial debut of Claudia Llosa, Aloft.[119]

Working again in collaboration with A Beautiful Mind co-star Russell Crowe, she portrayed Naameh in Darren Aronofsky's 2014 biblical epic

Indiewire wrote that Connelly conveyed the role with a "steady hand",[126] while St. Paul Pioneer Press defined her interpretation as "compelling".[127]

Connelly has starred in the television series Snowpiercer since 2020,[128] her first role in television since the cancellation of The Street in 2000.

Working again with Director Joseph Kosinski, Connelly portrayed Penelope "Penny" Benjamin in the action blockbuster film Top Gun: Maverick released in 2022 after a series of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[129][130]

Personal life

A brown haired woman signs autographs for fans. She wears a red dress. Behind her there is a blond man in a suit. The woman and the man are facing a crowd of fans.
Connelly and her husband Paul Bettany at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

While filming The Rocketeer, Connelly began a romance with her co-star Billy Campbell. They became engaged[28] but broke up in 1996 after five years together.[131] Connelly then had a relationship with photographer David Dugan, with whom she has a son, born in 1997.[132][133]

On January 1, 2003, in a private family ceremony in Scotland, she married actor Paul Bettany, whom she had met while working on A Beautiful Mind.[134] They have two children, a son, born in 2003, and a daughter, born in 2011.[135][136] After living together in Tribeca, she and Bettany moved to Brooklyn Heights.[137]

Charity work

On November 14, 2005, Connelly was named Amnesty International Ambassador for Human Rights Education.[138] She appeared in an advertisement highlighting the global need for clean water, and sought donations for African, Indian, and Central American drilling projects for the non-profit organization Charity: Water.[139] On May 2, 2009, she participated in Revlon's annual 5k Run/Walk for Women.[140] In May 2012, Connelly was named ambassador for Save the Children fund, to advocate for children's rights in the United States and worldwide.[141]

In the media

Publications such as Vanity Fair, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Times have ranked her among the most beautiful women in the world.[142][143][144] Parisian fashion house Balenciaga and Revlon cosmetics signed Connelly as the face of their 2008 campaigns.[145][146]

In February 2012, Connelly was announced as the first global brand ambassador for Shiseido, having previously worked with the company in the 1980s in a series of advertisements for the Japanese market.[147] Since 2015, Connelly is the House Ambassador for French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton.[148]

Filmography

Connelly at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival

Film

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

Year(s) Title Role Notes
1992 The Heart of Justice Emma Burgess Television film
2000–2001 The $treet Catherine Miller Main role, 12 episodes
2020–2022 Snowpiercer Melanie Cavill Main role
2024
Dark Matter
Daniela Dessen Main role, upcoming series

Music videos

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)

Awards and nominations

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 A Beautiful Mind Won [150]
British Academy Film Awards 2002 Best Actress in a Supporting Role A Beautiful Mind Won [151]
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress A Beautiful Mind 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 A Beautiful Mind Nominated [159]
Golden Globe Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture A Beautiful Mind 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 Requiem for a Dream 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 A Beautiful Mind 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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