Connelly is married to the British actor Paul Bettany, whom she met while working in The Beautiful Mind; a few's boy, Stellan (known as when Stellan Skarsgård), was born August 5, 2003. She has as well the 5-seaboy-old son, Kai, from either the former relationship.

Connelly, born to an Irish Catholic immigrant and the New York-bred Jewish mother (whose ancestors were from either Norway, Poland, and Russia), was raised in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn near the Brooklyn Bridge, attending St. Ann's School, except for four years the family spent living in Woodstock, New York. Her father was in the fashion business, & one of his close friends through the trade was an advertising executive.

the executive friend recommended Jennifer audition at a modelling agency. At a age of Tenner, her career began inside newspaper & magazine ads, so moved to television commercial message.

Her foremost film role was in the 1984 film Once Upon a Time in America, where she experienced the little a share when "young Deborah Gelly" inside Sergio Leone's gangster epic. She next starred inside cult Italian horror director Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985).

Connelly became a star in her next picture, the fantasy Labyrinth (1986). Connelly played Sarah, the adolescent world health organization wishes her toddler brother into the world of hobhob ruled by goblin king Jareth (played by rock wiz David Bowie). Across A series of escapade remindful of Alice Inside Wonderl&, The Muppets and Monty Python, Sarah does indeed manage to rescue her brother. The product of the talents of Jim Henson, George Lucas, ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones & designer Brian Froud, the film was the firm hit and enjoys the cult reputation in todays world.

Connelly seemed stuck when to training act on this profits. She mass produced the Japanese pop record & starred within two or three of truly obscure movies - Etoile (1988) & Occasionally Girls (1988). A Dennis Hopper directed Hot Spot (1990) was underwhelming, both critical & commercially.

She began researching English at Yale, but transferred deuce years late to Stanford. She did non graduate from institution.

A large-budget Disney film The Rocketeer (1991) similarly failed to restart Connelly's career. For even virtually all of the Nineties, Connelly would become stick to insipid, obscure films or minor role. the previous ingenue seemed destined to become a lovingly remembered footer for her role inside Labyrinth.

Yet, Connelly began one of a screen's awesome comebacks in the late 1990s. A moody indie film Far Harbor (1996), showed her swimming against nature & severity and hinted at the good deal wide range than she got antecedently shown. Connelly amazingly began to pop up inside smaller however easily regarded films like Inventing the Abbotts (1997) and Waking the Dead (2000). A film Dark City (1998) represented a retrogression of sorts, using Connelly depicting a 2-planar torch singer character within the dark phantasy world. Yet, it did afford her a risk to function by using such top-topping actors when Rufus Sewell, William Injured, Ian Richardson & Kiefer Sutherland. Likewise, Connelly drug higher her ingenue image once againside (although in the additional unpretentious way) for the film Pollock (2000), although the presence of such talent when Ed Harris (who as well directed) & Marcia Gay Harden must have been an incentive.

Connelly's large breakthrough eventually come in the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream. A jittery, experimental film began Connelly & Jared Leto as drug users on the edge of the breakdown. the film, which was a large critical profits, firmly established Jennifer Connelly as a good, gifted actress. Connelly's star was on the rise & she next starred inside Ron Howard's film A Beautiful Mind (2001).

Connelly essayed the role of Alicia Nash, a long-enduring married woman of a brilliant mathematician John Nash, (played by Russell Crowe) who struggles using mental symptoms. the film, according to realistic cases, was a critical & commercial profits & earned Connelly an Academy Award nomination for better supporting actress - which she won. Clearly constituted withinside film, Connelly may function by having a right & brightly talent in each commercial message & independent film.

Connelly starred inside both films within 2003: The Hulk and House of Sand and Fog. A Hulk was something of a pack professional disappointment, however afforded Connelly the risk to act by owning noted director Ang Lee. Home of S& and Fog, according to a novel by Andre Dubus, was reminiscent of great deal of her independent film act of the late 1990s.

Connelly's virtually all recent film is Dark Water (2005). Dark Water system, according to the Japanese film, was the raid subtle horror even that failed to convince either critics or audiences.

Selected Filmography

Little Children (2006) Dark Water (2005) House of Sand and Fog (2003) Hulk (2003) A Beautiful Mind (2001) The $treet (2000) (TV series) Pollock (2000) Requiem for a Dream (2000) Dark City (1998) Higher Learning (1995) The Rocketeer (1991) The Hot Spot (1990) Labyrinth (1986) Once Upon a Time in America (1984)