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Jennifer Connelly: Brooklyn Heights
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Jennifer Connelly was born December 12th 1970, at Catskill Mountains, New York. The daughter of Gerard, a clothing retailer, and Eileen Connelly, an antiques dealer, she spent four years in Woodstock, New York, but grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan. She attended Saint Ann school in Brooklyn Heights, and when she was ten, family friends suggested to her parents that they should take her to a modelling audition.
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Jennifer Connelly grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, except for the four years her family spent in Woodstock, New York. When she was ten, she began appearing in newspaper and magazine ads and soon moved on to TV commercials, and her movie debut, Once Upon a Time in America.
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Connelly grew up in Brooklyn Heights, New York City. She got her start in the entertainment world as a model beginning at age 10. Her first acting role was a guest appearance on the horror anthology series Tales of the Unexpected. She made her film debut in Once Upon a Time in America in 1984. Connelly attended Yale University for two years before transferring to Stanford. Her first genre film was Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985) in which she played a gifted student who works with a entomologist to solve a series of murders.
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Balancing work and school, Jennifer attended Yale and then transferred to Stanford, but decided to make acting her number one priority when she was cast in the lead of Disney's The Rocketeer. The movie not only skyrocketed Jennifer to new heights, but it ... led to a long-term romance with her co-star, Billy Campbell.
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Next came Isabel Allende's Of Love And Shadows where, alongside Antonio Banderas, Connelly played a well-to-do Chilean woman under the rotten rule of Margaret Thatcher's friend General Pinochet. Then - her Brooklyn Heights upbringing and Yale education clearly coming into their own - she played another aloof character, this time the lesbian mentor of Kirsty Swanson in John Singleton's Higher Learning.
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British actor Paul Bettany is still adjusting to his life in the United States with wife Jennifer Connelly but insists he won't give up his English sense of style. The star left his homeland to join his Oscar-winning wife in Brooklyn, New York City, and is still getting used to the transition.
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