Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American actress. She began her career as a child model before making her acting debut in Sergio Leone’s epic crime film Once Upon a Time in America (1984), with Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, and Treat Williams. Other films of the 1980s include Dario Argento’s Phenomena (1985), with Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Patrick Bauchau, and Donald Pleasence; Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985), with Byron Thames, Maddie Corman, Michael Zaslow, Polly Draper, Alan Boyce, and Billy Wirth; Jim Henson’s Labyrinth (1986), with David Bowie; Michael Hoffman’s Some Girls (1988), with Patrick Dempsey, Sheila Kelley, Lila Kedrova, and Andre Gregory; and Peter Del Monte’s Etoile (1989), with Gary McCleery, Laurent Terzieff, Olimpia Carlisi, and Charles Durning.
Films in the 1990s include Dennis Hopper’s The Hot Spot (1990), with Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler, and Jack Nance; Career Opportunities (1991), with Frank Whaley, Dermot Mulroney, William Forsythe, and John Candy; Joe Johnston’s The Rocketeer (1991), with Billy Campbell, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino, and Tiny Ron Taylor; Of Love and Shadows (1994), with Antonio Banderas, Stefania Sandrelli, and Patricio Contreras; John Singleton’s Higher Learning (1995), with Ice Cube, Omar Epps, Regina King, Michael Rapaport, Kristy Swanson, and Laurence Fishburne; Mulholland Falls (1996), with Nick Nolte, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Melanie Griffith, Andrew McCarthy, Williams, and John Malkovich; Far Harbor (1996), with Edward Atterton, Dan Futterman, Marcia Gay Harden, Andrew Lauren, George Newbern, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Jim True-Frost; Pat O’Connor’s Inventing the Abbotts (1997), with Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Joanna Going, Will Patton, and Kathy Baker; and Alex Proyas’s Dark City (1998), with Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard O’Brien, Ian Richardson, and William Hurt.
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind (2001), with Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany (whom she married in 2003), Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer. Other films in the early 2000s include Keith Gordon’s Waking the Dead (2000), with Crudup, Molly Parker, Janet McTeer, Paul Hipp, Sandra Oh, and Hal Holbrook; Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream (2000), with Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Christopher McDonald, Marlon Wayans, Mark Margolis, Louise and Keith David; Pollock (2000), with Harris (who also directed), Harden, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Val Kilmer, John Heard, and Sada Thompson; Ang Lee’s Hulk (2003), with Eric Bana, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, and Nolte; Vadim Perelman’s House of Sand and Fog (2003), with Ben Kingsley, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher, and Kim Dickens; and Walter Salles’s Dark Water (2005), with Tim Roth, John C. Reilly, Pete Postlethwaite, Perla Haney-Jardine, Dougray Scott, and Ariel Gade.
Films in the mid to late 2000s include Todd Field’s Little Children (2006), with Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman, Phyllis Somerville, and Will Lyman; Edward Zwick’s Blood Diamond (2006), with Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou,
Michael Sheen, and Arnold Vosloo; Terry George’s Reservation Road (2007), with Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Mira Sorvino, and Elle Fanning; Scott Derrickson’s The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), with Keanu Reeves, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, John Hamm, and Kathy Bates; Inkheart (2008), with Brendan Fraser, Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis, and Eliza Bennett; He’s Just Not That Into You (2009), with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson, and Justin Long; a voice role in the animated film 9 (2009), with Elijah Wood, Reilly, Plummer, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, and Fred Tatasciore; and Creation (2009), with Bettany, Jeremy Northam, Toby Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jim Carter, Bill Paterson, and Martha West.
Films in the early 2010 include Dustin Lance Black’s Virginia (2010), with Harris, Emma Roberts, Carrie Preston, and Jones; The Dilemma (2011), with Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum, and Queen Latifah; Salvation Boulevard (2011), with Pierce Brosnan, Harris, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei, and Jim Gaffigan; Stuck in Love (2012), with Kinnear, Lily Collins, Nat Wolff, Logan Lerman, and Kristen Bell; Winter’s Tale (2014), with Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Hurt, Eva Marie Saint, Crowe and Will Smith; Claudia Llosa’s Aloft (2014), with Cillian Murphy and Mélanie Laurent; Noah (2014), with Crowe, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Lerman, and Anthony Hopkins; and Shelter (2014), with Anthony Mackie.
Films in the late 2010s include American Pastoral (2016), with Ewan McGregor (who also directed), Dakota Fanning, Peter Riegert, Rupert Evans, Uzo Aduba, Molly Parker, and David Strathairn; Joseph Kosinski’s Only the Brave (2017), with Josh Brolin, James Badge Dale, Jeff Bridges, Miles Teller, Alex Russell, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Hardy, Thad Luckinbill, Geoff Stults, Scott Haze, and Andie MacDowell; Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel (2019), with Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Haley and Keean Johnson; Top Gun: Maverick (2022), with Tom Cruise, Teller, Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Harris, and Kilmer; and Bad Behavior (2023), with Ben Whishaw, Alice Englert (who also directed), Ana Scotney, Dasha Nekrasova, and Marlon Williams.
She also starred in the TV movie The Heart of Justice (1992), with Eric Stoltz, Mulroney, Hopper, Harris Yulin, Vincent Price, William H. Macy, and Bradford Dillman; along with the tv series The $treet (2000 – 2001), with Christian Campbell, Giancarlo Esposito, Nina Garbiras, Goldberg, Rick Hoffman, Sean Maher, Tom Everett Scott, Melissa De Sousa, and Bridgette Wilson; Snowpiercer (2020 – 2024), with Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright, Iddo Goldberg, Susan Park, Katie McGuinness, Sam Otto, Sheila Vand, Mike O’Malley, Annalise Basso, Jaylin Fletcher, Lena Hall, Roberto Urbina, Steven Ogg, Rowan Blanchard, Sean Bean, Chelsea Harris, Archie Panjabi, Clark Gregg, and Michael Aronov; and Dark Matter (2024 – ), with Joel Edgerton, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi, and Oakes Fegley.
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- Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – directed by Sergio Leone
- Phenomena (1985) – directed by Dario Argento
- Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985) – directed by Linda Feferman
- Labyrinth (1986)** – directed by Jim Henson
- Some Girls (1988) – directed by Michael Hoffman
- Etoile (1989) – directed by Peter Del Monte
- The Hot Spot (1990) – directed by Dennis Hopper
- Career Opportunities (1991) – directed by Bryan Gordon
- The Rocketeer (1991)* – directed by Joe Johnston
- The Heart of Justice (1992) – directed by Bruno Barreto – TV
- Of Love and Shadows (1994) – directed by Betty Kaplan
- Higher Learning (1995) – directed by John Singleton
- Mulholland Falls (1996) – directed by Lee Tamahori
- Far Harbor (1996) – directed by John Huddles
- Inventing the Abbotts (1997) – directed by Pat O’Connor
- Dark City (1998) – directed by Alex Proyas
- Waking the Dead (2000) – directed by Keith Gordon
- Requiem for a Dream (2000) – directed by Darren Aronofsky
- Pollock (2000) – directed by Ed Harris
- A Beautiful Mind (2001) – directed by Ron Howard
- Hulk (2003) – directed by Ang Lee
- House of the Sand and Fog (2003) – directed by Vadim Perelman
- Dark Water (2005) – directed by Walter Salles
- Little Children (2006) – directed by Todd Field
- Blood Diamond (2006) – directed by Edward Zwick
- Reservation Road (2007) – directed by Terry George
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) – directed by Scott Derrickson
- Inkheart (2008) – directed Ian Softley – cameo
- He’s Just Not That Into You (2009) – directed by Ken Kwapis
- 9 (2009) – directed Shane Acker
- Creation (2009) – directed by John Amiel
- Virginia (2010) – directed by Dustin Lance Black
- The Dilemma (2011) – directed by Ron Howard
- Salvation Boulevard (2011) – directed by George Ratliff
- Stuck in Love (2012) – directed by Josh Boone
- Winter’s Tale (2014) – directed by Akiva Goldsman
- Aloft (2014) – directed by Claudia Llosa
- Noah (2014) – directed by Darren Aronofsky
- Shelter (2014) – directed by Paul Bettany
- American Pastoral (2016) – directed by Ewan McGregor
- Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) – directed by John Watts
- Only the Brave (2017) – directed by Joseph Kosinski
- Alita: Battle Angel (2019)* – directed by Robert Rodriguez
- Top Gun: Maverick (2022)* – directed by Joseph Kosinski
- Bad Behavior (2023) – directed by Alice Engkert
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