Ĭonnelly's first leading role was in Italian giallo-director Dario Argento's 1985 film Phenomena. Connelly described the movie as "an incredibly idyllic introduction to movie-making". 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. During the audition, Connelly, who had no ballet training, tried to imitate a ballerina. The role required her to perform a ballet routine. 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). She sang in phonetic Japanese as she did not speak the language. In December 1986, she recorded two pop songs for the Japanese market: "Monologue of Love" and "Message of Love". She appeared on the covers of several issues of the American teenage magazine Seventeen in 19. In an interview with The Guardian, she revealed that, after having done some modeling, she had no aspirations to become an actress. Connelly began modeling for print advertisements before moving on to television commercials. Her parents sent a picture of her to the Ford Modeling Agency, which shortly after added her to its roster. When Connelly was ten years old, an advertising executive friend of her father suggested she audition as a model. Career 1980–1985: Modeling and early roles Modeling for magazines Encouraged by her parents to continue with her film career, Connelly left college and returned to the movie industry the same year. There, she trained with Roy London, Howard Fine, and Harold Guskin. After two years at Yale, Connelly transferred to Stanford University to study drama. 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". She has described herself as a conscientious student who "wasn't really concerned with having a social life or sleeping or eating much. Īfter graduating from high school, Connelly went to Yale University to study English literature. Four years later, the family returned to Brooklyn Heights, and Connelly returned to Saint Ann's School. Her father suffered from asthma so the family moved to Woodstock, New York, in 1976, to escape the city smog. Connelly was raised primarily in Brooklyn Heights, near the Brooklyn Bridge, where she attended Saint Ann's, a private school specializing in the arts. Her mother was Jewish and was educated at a yeshiva all of Connelly's maternal great-grandparents were Ashkenazi Jewish emigrants from Poland and Russia. Her father was a Catholic of Irish and Norwegian descent. Jennifer Lynn Connelly was born on December 12, 1970, in Cairo, New York, in the Catskill Mountains, the only child of Ilene, an antique dealer, and Gerard Karl Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. 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. In 2012, she was named the first global face of the Shiseido Company. She has been the face of Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton fashion advertisements, as well as for Revlon cosmetics. Since 2020, she has starred in the TNT dystopian television series Snowpiercer.Ĭonnelly was named Amnesty International Ambassador for Human Rights Education in 2005. 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). 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 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). 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). After having worked as a model for several years, 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 began her career as a child model before making her acting debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America. Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American actress.
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