Jennifer Connelly (born on December 12, 1970, in New York, United States) is an American actress and model. She began her career as a child model by appearing in magazines, newspapers, and television advertising.
Later in 1984, Jennifer made her acting debut with the epic crime drama film Once Upon a Time in America. She is recognized for her performances in films such as Labyrinth (1986), Career Opportunities (1991), and The Rocketeer (1991).
Jennifer earned critical acclaim for her roles in films such as Dark City, Requiem for a Dream, and Pollock. Jennifer Connelly won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the role of Alicia Nash in Ron Howard’s biopic “A Beautiful Mind (2001).”
In addition to her cinema career, she is the face of advertising for the cosmetics companies Revlon and Shiseido as well as the Parisian fashion house Balenciaga. In 2012, many magazines, including Time, Vanity Fair, and Esquire as well as the Los Angeles Times newspaper, placed her on their “most beautiful women in the world” lists.
Facts About Jennifer Connelly
- Born: 12 December 1970, in Cairo, New York, United States
- Birth Name: Jennifer Lynn Connelly
- Age: 50 years old
- Height: 5 feet 5 inches (1.70 meters)
- Weight: 57 kg (125 lbs)
- Hair Color: Black
- Eyes Color: Green
- Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
- Education:-
Saint Ann’s School
Yale University
Stanford University - Nationality: American
- Religion: Roman Catholic and Jewish
- Parents: Gerard Connelly (Father), Eileen Connelly (Mother)
- Husband: Paul Bettany (m. 2003)
- Children: Kai Dugan, Agnes Lark Bettany, Stellan Bettany
- Net Worth: $55 Million (As of July 2021)
Jennifer Connelly Biography
Jennifer Connelly was born on 12 December 1970, in Cairo, New York, in the Catskill Mountains. She is the daughter of Gerard Connelly. he was a clothing manufacturer and an antique dealer.
Her dad Gerard Connelly was Roman Catholic, and of Irish-Norwegian descent. Jennifer’s mother Eileen Connelly was Jewish. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, near the Brooklyn Bridge. She studied at Saint Ann’s private school specializing in the arts and sciences.
In 1976, her family moved to Woodstock, New York, because her dad suffered from asthma. Four years later, her family returned to Brooklyn Heights, and Connelly went back to her old school.
Later she did graduate from high school and went to studied English literature at Yale University in 1988. After two years, Connelly shifted to Stanford University to study acting. Later Connelly left her college to work in the movie industry.
Personal Life of Jennifer Connelly
In 1991, while filming “The Rocketeer”, Connelly come into a romantic relationship with co-star Billy Campbell. They stayed together for five years before separation in 1996. Connelly then had a relationship with photographer David Dugan, with whom she has a son, Kai, born in
In 2001, she met with actor Paul Bettany, while filming A Beautiful Mind. On January 1, 2003, in a private family ceremony in Scotland, Jennifer Connelly married British actor Paul Bettany.
The couple has two children: a son, Stellan Bettany was born in 2003, and a daughter, Agnes Lark Bettany was born in 2011. Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany live together with their kids in Brooklyn Heights.
Jennifer is actively involved in charity work. On November 14, 2005, she became Amnesty International’s Human Rights Ambassador. She starred in an advertisement on the importance of clean water to humans, after which many donations were made to build drilling rigs in Africa, Asia, and Central America.
Modeling and Acting Career
In 1980, Jennifer Connelly joined a modeling agency “Ford Models” where she began her career as an advertising model at the age of 10. She appears on magazine covers and later in television commercials, most of them in Japan.
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, she said that after being a child model for some time, she had no ambitions to become an actress. Her mother takes her to auditions and gets her first film role in Sergio Leone’s Jewish gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America.
She described the film as “an incredibly idyllic entry into acting”. Although Connelly did not appear more than a few minutes on screen, they were enough to show her talent as an actress.
In 1985, she got her first leading role in the Italian horror film “Phenomena” directed by Dario Argento, where she played an American teenager who can communicate with insects, engaged in facing a ferocious killer in a muffled Swiss boarding school.
The movie was very successful at the box office in Europe but was released in the United States with a censored version. Jennifer gained recognition with the fantasy film Labyrinth, which is directed by Jim Henson. In the movie, she played the role of Sarah Williams, alongside David Bowie.
