Born on December 12, 1970, in Catskill, New York, Jennifer Connelly worked as a model before embarking on a film career with parts in Labyrinth,Requiem for a Dream and Pollock. In 2002, Connelly won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for her supporting role as Alicia Nash in Ron Howard’s 2001 biopic A Beautiful Mind. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for A Beautiful Mind, with a later lead role in The House of Sand and Fog. Other projects have included The Hulk, Little Children andThe Day the Earth Stood Still. Her later credits include the 2003 Marvel superhero film Hulk where she played Bruce Banner’s true love Betty Ross, the 2005 horror film Dark Water, the 2006 drama Blood Diamond, the 2008 science fiction remake The Day the Earth Stood Still, the 2009 romantic comedy He’s Just Not That into You and the 2009 biographical drama Creation. She re-teamed with her Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky and A Beautiful Mind co-star Russell Crowe for the 2014 biblical epic Noah.
Bio:
Name: Jennifer Lynn Connelly
Nickname: Jenny C
Date of Birth: December 12, 1970
Place of Birth: Cairo, New York, USA
Place of Residence: New York, USA
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
Education: Yale, Stanford
Body Stats:
Height: 5 ‘6”/ 169 cm
Weight: 119 lbs/ 54 kg
Shoe size: 7.5
Dress size: 2
Bra size: 32C
Measurements: 34-23-33/87-58.5-84 cm
Ethnicity: White
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Green
Social Networks:
- Twitter: jenconnelly
- Facebook: JenniferConnelly
- Instagram: jenniferconnelly
Fun Facts:
Relationships:
- Don Johnson (1989)
- Dweezil Zappa (1990)
- Billy Campbell (1990-1995)
- Billy Crudup (1996)
- David Dugan (1996-1997)
- Josh Charles (1999-2002)
- Russell Crowe (2002)
- Paul Bettany (2002-Present)
Children: 3
Awards and Honors:
- 1992 Saturn Award, Best Supporting Actress, Nominated
- 2002 Academy Awards, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Won Oscar
- 2002 Golden Globes, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, Won
- 2002 BAFTA Awards, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Won
- 2002 AFI Awards, Featured Actor of the Year – Female – Movies, Won
- 2004 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films,Best Actress, Nominated
- 2006 Awards Circuit Community Awards,Best Cast Ensemble, Won
- 2007 ,Hollywood Film Awards,Supporting Actress of the Year, Won
Hobbies and Interests: Hiking, drawing, software and mathematics.
Favorite Color: Cobalt blue, light gray, forest green
Favorite Food: Sushi, turkey burger
Favorite Music: Nick Cave, Cat Power, The Arctic Monkeys
Favorite Perfume: Cire Trudon Abd El Kader
Favorite Book: The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
Favorite Sports: Baseball
Favorite TV Show: Scooby-Doo
Interesting Facts:
- She is of Norwegian and Irish descent on her father’s side.
- She was announced as Amnesty International’s ambassador for Human Rights Education on November 14, 2005.
- Jennifer has also been named as the ambassador for Save the Children fund.
- Connelly made her film debut in 1984 with the crime drama film Once Upon a Time in America for her role as Young Deborah Gelly.
- She has an Australian shepherd dog, named, Pip.
- She was vegan before her first pregnancy. She broke it after eating a turkey burger.
- Connelly auditioned for the main role in the 1984 film Firestarter. But, it went to Drew Barrymore.
- She is good at Italian and French languages.
- Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
- Daughter-in-law of actor Thane Bettany and Anne Kettle.
- Returned to work 7 months after giving birth to her son Kai in order to begin filming Waking the Dead (2000).
- She married Paul Bettany in January 2003, and the couple’s first child, a son named Stellan, was born later that year. Their second child, a daughter named Agnes, was born in 2011. She also had a son named Kai with photographer David Dugan.
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- Hailee Steinfeld Height and Weight Stats
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