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Jennifer Connelly: Beautiful Mind
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In Jennifer Connelly's new film, Reservation Road, she plays a happily married woman who lives in a beautiful house in a leafy New England neighborhood with her handsome, devoted husband and their two lovely children. In one of the earliest scenes, her ten-year-old son walks out to the road on an idyllic September evening to release some fireflies from a jar, and he is run down by a car and dies.
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Jennifer Connelly won an Academy Award for her performance in Ron Howard's Oscar-winning Best Picture A Beautiful Mind, opposite Russell Crowe. For her portrayal of John Nash's loyal but longsuffering wife, Alicia, Connelly was ... honored with Golden Globe, BAFTA, American Film Institute (AFI), and Critics' Choice Awards, as well as a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Connelly's big breakthrough was the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream. Connelly starred alongside Jared Leto and Marlon Wayans as heroin addicts on the edge of a breakdown. The film firmly established her as a serious actress. Connelly next starred in Ron Howard's film A Beautiful Mind (2001), essaying the role of Alicia Nash, the long-suffering wife of the brilliant, schizophrenic mathematician John Nash (played by Russell Crowe). The film was a critical and commercial success and earned Connelly a Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her appearance in A Beautiful Mind led to a featured article in TIME magazine.[6]
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Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12 1970) is an American film actress. She ... worked as child model as a little girl. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager and became famous on the for her roles in films like Labyrinth and Career Opportunities, she didn't become a big movie star until the 2000 drama Requiem for a Dream, and the 2001 biopic A Beautiful Mind, for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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Jennifer Connelly, an Academy Award winner, has proven her versatility as an actress. Connelly received a Golden Globe, BAFTA award, AFI award, Broadcast Critics award and Academy Award for her role in Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind.
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Connelly is a vegan. She is married to well-known English actor Paul Bettany (born 1971), whom she met while working on A Beautiful Mind. The couple's son, Stellan (named after actor Stellan Skarsgård), was born on August 5, 2003. She ... has a son, Kai (born 1997), from her relationship with photographer David Dugan.
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