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Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970 in the Catskill Mountains, New York) is an American film actress. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager, she has only recently received critical acclaim for her work, most notably for Requiem for a Dream ( 2000) and A Beautiful Mind ( 2001), for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress.
Connelly is married to the British actor Paul Bettany, whom she met while working on a film; the couple has a son (born August 5, 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U). She has also a five-year-old son, Kai, from a previous relationship.
Connelly grew up in Brooklyn Heights, BrooklynManhattan Brooklyn Heights is a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It is historically descended from the old Town of Brooklyn . It was the first neighborhood protected by the 1965 Landmarks Preservation Law of New York City. Plymouth Church of the Pilgri near the Brooklyn BridgeThe Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, spanning the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn. 6016 feet (1834 m) long, it was opened for use on May 24, 1883, after 14 years of construction. On that first day a total, attending St. Ann's SchoolAnn's School is an independent school in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Ann's School was founded by Stanley Bosworth in 1965. It was originally associated with the Episcopal Church but dissolved these ties in 1982. The school has programs in the arts, humani, except for four years the family spent living in Woodstock, New YorkWoodstock, New York The name Woodstock is associated with two locales in New York. Town of Woodstock a town in Ulster County, New York Woodstock the site of a musical event in 1969 in Bethel, New York. See Woodstock disambiguation for other locations.. Her father was in the garment industry, and one his close friends through the trade was an advertisingAdvertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, by an identified sponsor. Marketers see advertising as part of an overall promotional strategy. Other components of the promotional mix include publicity, public relations, persona executive.
The executive friend suggested Jennifer audition at a modellingA model is a person who acts as a human prop for purposes of art, photography, pornography, fashion, advertising, etc. Modeling is distinguished from other types of public performance such as an acting, dancing or mime artistry, although the boundary is p agency. At the age of 10, her career started in newspaper and magazine ads, then moved to television commercials.
Her first film role was in the 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe film Once Upon a Time in America, where she danced for the role of "young Deborah Gelly" in Sergio Leone's gangster epic. She followed that with a major role in Jim Henson's film Labyrinth ( 1986).
She began studying at Yale, but transferred two years later to Stanford.
She returned to films in the 1990s, in such titles as The Rocketeer ( 1990), Dark City ( 1998), and House of Sand and Fog ( 2003).
Around this time, Connelly had a strange career move, releasing Monologue of Love , a "charming" Japanese single with a semi-classical instrumental arrangement. The B-side of the tape is Message of Love, an interview with music in the background. Along with this odd Japanese single, she also has done many Japanese TV commercials.