Jennifer Connelly

In 2003, Connelly got married to actor Paul Bettany after meeting him on the sets of ‘A Beautiful Mind’. They have two children together: Stellan and Agnes Lark. She already has a son, Kai, from David Dugan.

Jennifer Connelly was born in Cairo, New York, to Ilene and Gerard Connelly. Her father was a clothing manufacturer and her mother an antiques dealer. She was raised in Brooklyn Heights where she attended Saint Ann’s school.

Connelly auditioned as a child model when she was 10, at the suggestion of a friend of her father’s. Her modeling career started with the Ford Modeling Agency and she appeared on the cover of several magazines and Japanese pop songs.

In 1984, Connelly appeared in a Hollywood movie for the first time, in ‘Once Upon a Time in America’. She performed a ballet routine in the movie. During the same time, she made her first appearance on the television.

She got her first lead roles in 1985 with the Italian horror movie, ‘Phenomena’ and ‘Seven Minutes in Heaven’. These movies did not do wonders for Connelly’s image but it got her the required media exposure and attention.

In 1986, Connelly played a teenager in the fantasy film, ‘Labyrinth’. Her performance in the movie was highly criticized and the movie itself bombed at the box office but it became a cult film later.

She took a little break from acting to join back school and make sense of the things as her acting career was growing larger. Connelly joined Yale in 1988 to study English and later joined Stanford to study drama.

‘A Beautiful Mind (2001)’ is considered Connelly’s most prominent work until now. Her portrayal of Alicia Nash, wife of schizophrenic mathematician and a noble laureate John Nash, won her an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe.