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What's Her Story: Jennifer Connelly is an Academy Award® winner who has proven her versatility in a wide range of feature film roles. In 2002, Connelly won an Oscar®, as well as Golden Globe, BAFTA, American Film Institute (AFI), and Broadcast Film Critics Choice Awards, for her portrayal of Alicia Nash in Ron Howard’s Best picture winner "A Beautiful Mind." She was ... honored by her peers with two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, one for her individual performance and a second for Outstanding Performance by a Cast, shared with her castmates in "A Beautiful Mind." Connelly had previously earned an Independent Film Spirit Award nomination for her unflinching portrait of a drug addict in Darren Aronofsky’s "Requiem for a Dream." Most recently, Connelly starred as Betty Ross (later Betty Banner) in Ang Lee’s action adventure "The Hulk." She also starred in the widely acclaimed biopicture "Pollock," directed by and starring Ed Harris, and opposite Billy Crudup in Keith Gordon’s thriller "Waking the Dead."
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Actress Jennifer Connelly has been in her fare share of serious dramas including Requiem For A Dream and A Beautiful Mind. But the Oscar-winning actress says that her latest film, The House Of Sand And Fog, is the most moving of them all. In the film, Connelly plays a recovering alcoholic who turns back to the bottle when she's evicted from her home which is then sold to an Iranian family for well below market value. Her character, Kathy Nicolo, begins a path of destructive behavior in her desperation to get her home back, and she eventually finds herself being saved by the very family she set out to destroy.
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Celebrity mom Jennifer Connelly has juggled acting and her family for the last seven years, so it is about time that she played a mother in a film. Too bad it had to be the horror film Dark Water, where she and her child are haunted in their run down apartment in the Roosevelt Island section of New York City.
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When Jennifer Connelly entered the world, these stories made the front page of the nation's newspapers: The Environmental Protection Agency is created by executive order. William Ruckelshaus is named its first director. On the 23rd, the northern tower of New York City's World Trade Center is topped out, making it the world's tallest building. Its 1,350-foot height hads a 100-foot advantage over the Empire State Building. Cesar Chavez, the California labor leader, is given a 10-day jail term in a Salinas, Calif. court room. Chavez organized a nationwide boycott of lettuce to help his union, The United Farm Workers.
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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. Back in Brooklyn Heights she attended St. Ann's school. Her father was in the garment industry, and a close friend of the family was an advertising executive. When Jennifer was 10, the friend suggested that her parents take her to a modeling audition. She began appearing in newspaper and magazine ads (among them,"Seventeen" magazine) and soon moved on to TV commercials. A casting director saw the girl and introduced her to Sergio Leone, who was seeking a young girl to dance in his gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
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Jennifer Connelly subsequently was featured in mostly forgettable teen fare, with the possible exception of Jim Henson's "Labyrinth" (1986), in which she was overshadowed by David Bowie and a cast of Henson creatures. That same year she was the bright one among a trio of friends--Byron Thomas, Maddie Corman--in the lightweight "Seven Minutes in Heaven". Connelly traded on her attractive looks as the only innocent among Southern schemers in Dennis Hopper's thriller, "The Hot Spot" and as the voluptuous town beauty in the teen comedy "Career Opportunities" (both 1990). She was perfectly cast as a 1940s Hollywood starlet who got the guy in "The Rocketeer" (1991; Connelly and co-star Bill Campbell ... enjoyed an off-screen relationship as well).
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