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Jennifer Connelly: Requiem For A Dream
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Connelly began her career in show business at age 10 as a model. She made her big-screen debut in Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Her other early roles include Phenomena (1984) and Labyrinth (1986). She proved her acting chops in Higher Learning (1995) and Waking the Dead (2000). She gave a disturbing yet convincing performance as a self-destructive junkie in Requiem for a Dream (2000). She starred in the critically acclaimed House of Sand and Fog (2003) with Ben Kingsley.
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Connelly delivered a fine turn as Eleanor, the self-styled bad girl middle sister of a trio of beauties who all succumb to the charms of the town's bad boy (Billy Crudup) in "Inventing the Abbotts" (1997). She next undertook the challenging role of a woman who may or may not be real in the sci-fi thriller "Dark City" (1998). After a brief hiatus for motherhood, Connelly returned to the big screen in force with three high profile art-house films in 2000. She was again a woman of mystery, this time a former radical haunting her old lover (Crudup) in "Waking the Dead." In Darren Aronofsky's harrowing "Requiem for a Dream", Connelly played a wannabe fashion designer with a nasty coke habit who willingly submits to debasement in order to score drugs. She ... was the other woman in the life of the abstract artist in Ed Harris' biopic "Pollock."
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Jennifer continued to act while she finished up high school - though the success of her next few films could have easily debated otherwise – and, following graduation, left to attend school at Stanford University. Acting remained her number one priority though, and after winning the lead female role in “The Rocketeer,” Jennifer was finally beginning to earn the respect she needed to become a star. The young actress followed up her performance in the Disney blockbuster with top-notch roles alongside star directors like John Singleton and David Lynch, and finally exploded in the late 90’s with appearances in “Dark City,” “Requiem for a Dream,” and “Pollock.”
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Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American film actress and former child model. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager and catapulted to fame on the basis of her appearances in films like Labyrinth and Career Opportunities, she did not receive wide exposure for her work 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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Despite her almost prim style off-screen, Connelly clearly likes getting down and dirty in her film roles. Think of the dissipated junkie who performs raunchy sex acts for a fix in Requiem for a Dream, the homeless loser in House of Sand and Fog, or the despairing divorcee in Dark Water — in which, frequently drenched, she competes for screen time with torrents of murky water. (At least the recent Little Children, in which she plays a workaholic filmmaker with a straying, stay-at-home husband, takes some advantage of her ravishing looks). OK, so Connelly's not going the Monster route à la Charlize Theron, but what is this penchant for grit when she could be glamming it up?
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Three of her more critically-acclaimed films (Dark City, Requiem for a Dream, and House of Sand and Fog) feature very similar scenes of Connelly standing alone on a pier overlooking the ocean. According to the directors, this was entirely a coincidence.[5]
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