Jennifer Connely Biography

• Birth Name

  Jennifer Connelly

• Birth Date

  12/12/1970

• Birthplace

  New York, New York

• Credits

  15 Movies, 1 TV appearances, 7 awards
  

• Family

  Father: Gerard Connelly
  married once before

  Mother: Eileen Connelly
  

  Son: Kai Dugan
  born in July 1997; father, David Dugan

  Son: Stellan Bettany
  born August 5, 2003; named after Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgaard

• Notes

  "I don't want that leap (into comedy) with the wrong film and have people say, 'See? We told you. She's only good at playing neuroic, suicidal people. Put her back into drama, quick!'"---Connelly on wanting to pursue other types of roles, to VLife, June/July 2005.
  "I like doing things that intimidate me."---Jennifer Connelly in Vanity Fair, February 1996.
  "I wasn't a kid who wanted to be an actress. I suddenly found myself making movies, and eventually I had to stop, take acting apart, and then choose it again on my own terms."---Connelly quoted in Movieline, October 2000.
  On her childhood interest... "I had no aspirations, I had no movie posters in my room, I wasn't a movie buff. I liked Evel Knievel and animals and I kind of liked science."---Connelly US Weekly Sepetmber 2, 2002.
  

• Milestones

  (1984) Acted in first feature, "Once Upon a Time in America"; portrayed Elizabeth McGovern's character as a child
  

  (2000) Appeared as the painter's young mistress in "Pollock", Ed Harris' biopic of Jackson Pollock; screened at Venice, Toronto and New York Film Festivals
  Began modeling and doing commercials at age ten; continued working as a model until her teens
  (2006) Cast in Todd Field's "Little Children" alongside Kate Winslet
  (1991) Cast in the female lead of "The Rockateer"
  (2003) Cast opposite Eric Bana in "The Hulk", directed by Ang Lee
  (1998) Co-starred as Rufus Sewell's estranged spouse in "Dark City"
  (2001) Co-starred opposite Russell Crowe in the biopic of schizophrenic Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash Jr in "A Beautiful Mind"; received Best Supporting Actress Oscar
  (2006) Co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in Edward Zwick's "Blood Diamond"
  (2000) Had featured role in the fall drama series "The $treet" (Fox)
  (1996) Played Nick Nolte's mistress whose death is at the center of a mystery in "Mulholland Falls"
  (2000) Played a drug addicted fashion designer in "Requiem for a Dream"; premiered at Cannes (not in competition)
  (1986) Played a girl trying to rescue her baby brother from Goblin King David Bowie in "Labyrinth"
  (2003) Plays a recovering addict trying to save her home in "House of Sand a

  

  nd Fog"; an adaption of the novel written by Andre Dubus III
  (1995) Portrayed a lesbian college student in "Higher Learning"
  (1997) Portrayed one of three alluring sisters in the feature "Inventing the Abbotts"; first onscreen teaming with Billy Crudup
  Raised in Brooklyn Heights, New York
  (2000) Reteamed with Crudup in the romantic drama "Waking the Dead"; screened at Sundance
  (1986) Starred in "Seven Minutes in Heaven"
  (2005) Starred in the thriller "Dark Water," directed by Walter Salles
  (1993) TV-movie debut, "The Heart of Justice" (TNT)
  Will co-star with Philip Seymour Hoffman for a new adaptation of "Macbeth," (lensed 2005)