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Jennifer Lynn Connelly 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 thriller The Hot Spot (1990),…
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Born 12 December 1970 · Q103343
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“(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.”
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“[A Beautiful Mind] is the film I”
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“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”
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“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”
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“Not yet 20, Connelly has neatly managed the transition from child actress to ingenue”
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“Before I knew it, [acting] became what I did. It was a very peculiar way to grow up, combined with my personality.”
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After a series of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Connelly starred in Shelter, the directorial debut by her husband, Paul Bettany
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Was named the first global face of the Shiseido Company
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Connelly starred in Ron Howard's comedy The Dilemma with Vince Vaughn
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At the Toronto International Film Festival
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Participated in Revlon's annual 5k Run/Walk for Women
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Appeared in the costume drama biopic Creation, in which she played Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin, opposite her real-life husband Paul Bettany
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Parisian fashion house Balenciaga and Revlon cosmetics signed Connelly as the face of their 2008 campaigns.
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Connelly was named Amnesty International Ambassador for Human Rights Education
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Appeared in House of Sand and Fog, a drama based on the novel by Andre Dubus III
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In a private family ceremony in Scotland, she married actor Paul Bettany, whom she had met while working on A Beautiful Mind
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for A Beautiful Mind (2002).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for A Beautiful Mind (2002).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for A Beautiful Mind (2002).
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Awarded Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for A Beautiful Mind (2001).
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Ed Harris directed Connelly in the biopic Pollock in which she played Ruth Kligman, Jackson Pollock's mistress
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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
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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
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Director John Singleton cast Connelly as a lesbian college student in Higher Learning
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Dennis Hopper directed The Hot Spot, in which Connelly played Gloria Harper, a woman being blackmailed
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Studied at Stanford University (1990–1990).
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Studied at Yale University (1988–1989).
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Connelly went to Yale University to study English literature
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Began work as a ballet student in the Italian film Etoile which was released in 1989, and portrayed college student Gabby in Michael Hoffman's Some Girls
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“Once Upon a Time in America”
Born 1970-12-12.
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In Round Top, a hamlet in the town of Cairo, New York
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