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Jennifer Connelly Biography

Jennifer Lynn Connelly was born on December 12, 1970 in Catskill Mountains, New York.

When Jennifer was ten, family friends suggested to her parents that they should take her to a modeling audition. Jennifer began appearing in newspaper and magazine ads and soon moved on to TV commercials.
Jennifer's acting debut came in 1982, in an episode of the British horror-anthology series "Tales of the Unexpected". Her first movie experience came when a casting director introduced her to legendary filmmaker Sergio Leone, who was seeking an actress who could fill the role of a young girl to dance in his dramatic epic "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984). Although having little screen time, the few minutes she was on-screen were enough to reveal her talent. After Leone's movie, horror master Dario Argento signed her to play her first starring role in his thriller "Phenomena" (1985).
The late eighties saw her appearing in a smash hit and three lesser seen films. Amongst the latter was her roles in "�toile" (1988), as a ballerina, and in "Some Girls" (1988), where she played a self absorbed college freshman. The smash hit was "Labyrinth" (1986). Jennifer got the job after a nation-wide talent search for the lead in this fantasy directed by Jim Henson.
Jennifer's career entered in a terribly calm phase after those films, until Dennis Hopper, who was impressed after having seen her in "Some Girls", cast Jennifer as a small-town girl in "The Hot Spot" (1990), based on the fifties crime novel "Hell Hath No Fury". It received mixed critical reviews, but it was not a box office success. "The Rocketeer" (1991) came to the rescue. The film was an old-fashioned adventure flick about a man capable of flying with rockets on his back. Critics saw in "Rocketeer" a top-quality movie, a homage to those old films of the 30's in which the likes of Errol Flynn starred. After "Rocketeer", Jennifer made "Career Opportunities" (1991), "The Heart of Justice" (1993), "Mulholland Falls" (1996) and "Inventing the Abbotts" (1997).
In 1998 Jennifer was invited by director Alex Proyas to make "Dark City" (1998).
Jennifer had her career's most courageous, difficult part, a performance that earned her a Spirit Award Nomination. She followed this role with "Pollock" (2000), in which she played Pollock's mistress, Ruth Klingman. The same year, Ron Howard chose her to co-star with Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind" (2001). The film that tells the true story of John Forbes Nash Jr., a man who suffered from mental illness but eventually beats this and wins the Nobel Prize in 1994. Jennifer Connelly plays Forbes' wife and won a Golden Globe, BAFTA, AFI and Oscar as Best Supporting Actress.
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