Jennifer Connelly is an all-natural beauty
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About
Jennifer Connelly |
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Jennifer is well known for her
powerful and diverse roles in films such as "Waking the Dead" (1999),
"Requiem for a Dream" (2000), "House of Sand and Fog" (2003), and her
Academy Award winning performance in "A Beautiful Mind" (2001). Her older
fans will remember her best as Sarah in Jim Henson's "Labyrinth" (1986) and
Jenny in "The Rocketeer" (1991).
A year ago, Jennifer Connelly seemed to be an actress on the cusp of
success, but with her triumphant award-winning performance in the hit movie,
A Beautiful Mind, she is definitely going one way: up.
"I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the
Hollywood fantasy." -Jennifer Connelly |
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Jennifer Connelly's
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Jennifer Connelly was born December 12, 1970, in Catskill Mountains, New
York, to parents Gerard, a clothing manufacturer, and Eileen, an antique
dealer.
Although she claims she was tiny and mousy as a child, she was certainly
pretty enough to appear in magazines such as Seventeen at the age of 10,
after a friend of her father's recommended that she model.
Balancing work and school, Jennifer attended Yale and then transferred to
Stanford, but decided to make acting her number one priority when she was
cast in the lead of Disney's The Rocketeer. The movie not only skyrocketed
Jennifer to new heights, but it also led to a long-term romance with her
co-star, Billy Campbell.
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Jennifer Connelly as Actress |
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After graduating from St. Ann's in 1988 Jennifer found herself re-evaluating
her acting career: ". . .in a few years it began to change. I said, 'Do I
really want to do this? or am I just doing it because it came along?' So I
took it all apart and put it back together and said, 'Yes, I want to be an
actor.' In 1990s she enrolled at Yale, where she majored in drama and
English Literature. After her sophomore year there, she transferred to
Stanford University, where she remained for another year, but she never
finished her degree. She had hopes of attending college with anonymity, but
to no avail. "I wasn't going to tell anyone at all, but I had a roommate
who'd seen me in Labyrinth and so it was out". She found that the mere fact
that she had worked in Hollywood made her a cause celebre among her
classmates: "you're more famous than you actually are". At Stanford Jennifer
trained in classical theater and improvisation, studying with the late drama
coach Roy London and with Howard Fine and Harold Guskin.
Her career entered into a terribly calm phase until Dennis Hopper, who was
impressed after having seen her in "Some Girls", cast Jennifer as an ingénue
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 relatively high profile role in "The Hot Spot" got her
noticed by the press for more than her acting. Stephen Schaefer in a USA
Today article wrote: "Anyone looking for proof that little girls do grow up
fast in the movies should take a gander at curvaceous Jennifer Connelly
opposite Don Johnson in The Hot Spot. Not yet 20, Connelly has neatly
managed the transition from child actress to ingenue." Not all that
surprisingly, Jennifer was called upon by Hopper to do her first nude scene:
"The nudity was hard for me and something I thought about. . .but it's not
in a sleazy context." The quote reflects the sensible manner with which she
had approached a number of other such scenes in her career. The nudity
wasn't the only thing she was a bit trepidatious about--she balked a bit at
going into the freezing cold water during one of the beach scenes. Johnson
solved the problem quickly--he just picked her up and threw her in!
"The Rocketeer" (1991), an ambitious Touchstone super-production, came to
the rescue. The film was an old-fashioned adventure flick about a young
pilot who discovers a jet-pack and uses it to save his girlfriend and foil
gangsters and Nazis in 1930's Hollywood. Critics saw in Rocketeer a
top-quality movie, a homage to those old films of the 1930s in which the
likes of Errol Flynn starred. In real life, Jennifer and co-star Bill
Campbell became an item, and saw each other on and off for five years, at
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Jennifer Connelly's Movies |
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Berkeley
Connection, The (2006) (announced)
Reservation Road (2007) (pre-production)
The Blood Diamond (2007) (filming) .... Maddy Bowen
Little Children (2006) (post-production) .... Kathy Adamson
Dark Water (2005) .... Dahlia Williams
House of Sand and Fog (2003) .... Kathy Nicolo
Hulk, The (2003) .... Betty Ross
8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2002) (TV) .... presenter
Orange British Academy Film Awards (2002) (TV) .... Herself
A Beautiful Mind (2001) .... Alicia Nash
Street, The (2000) TV Series .... Catherine Miller
VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards (2000) (TV) .... Herself
Pollock (2000) .... Ruth Klingman
Requiem for a Dream (2000) .... Marion Silver
Waking the Dead (2000/1) .... Sarah Williams
Dark City (1998) .... Emma Murdoch / Anna
Inventing the Abbotts (1997) .... Eleanor Abbott
Far Harbor (1996) .... Ellie
Mulholland Falls (1996) .... Allison Pond
Higher Learning (1995) .... Taryn
Of Love and Shadows (1994) .... Irene
... aka De amor y de sombras (1995) (Argentina) (Spain)
Heart of Justice, The (1992) (TV) .... Emma Burgess
Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air (1991) (TV) .... Herself
Rocketeer, The (1991) .... Jenny Blake
Career Opportunities (1991) .... Josie McClellan
... aka One Wild Night (1991)
Hot Spot, The (1990) .... Gloria Harper
I Drove All Night (1990)
Some Girls (1989) .... Gabriella 'Gabby'
... aka Sisters (1988)
Etoile (1988) .... Claire Hamilton / Natalie Horvath
... aka Ballet (1988)
Labyrinth (1986) .... Sarah
Inside the Labyrinth (1986) .... Herself
Mondo dell'orrore di Dario Argento, Il (1985) .... Herself / Jennifer
Corvino
... aka Dario Argento's World of Horror (1985)
Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985) .... Natalie Becker
Valley, The (1985) .... Herself / Jennifer Corvino
... aka Creepers (1985) (US title)
Phenomena (1985) .... Herself / Jennifer Corvino
... aka Creepers (1985) (US title)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984) .... Young Deborah
... aka C'era una volta in America (1984) (Italy)
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Jennifer Connelly Looks Pregnant |
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Jennifer
Connelly hasn't been in a lot of movies lately. Rather, I should say
Jennifer Connelly hasn't been in a lot of good movies lately, and it
looks like Blood Diamond won't be bucking any trends. At least not if
Leonardo DiCaprio's accent in the movie is any indication.
But that's neither here nor there in terms of relevance to this post. I
bring it up merely to note that at this special screening of the film,
Jennifer Connelly looks to be rocking a fairly prominent baby bump.
Either that or she's got gas.
You can also see that her husband, Paul Bettany is rather conspicuously
placing his hand on her tummy. So is Jennifer Connelly pregnant? Maybe.
Is her movie going to suck? Definitely. |
