Hollywood actress Jennifer Lynn Connelly starred in dozens of films, including the cult film A Beautiful Mind. Jennifer here played the role of the wife of a talented mathematician suffering from schizophrenia, for which she eventually received an Oscar. Jennifer is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful girls in Hollywood, which is certainly not without reason.
Childhood and the first steps in the cinema
The future star was born in the small town of Keiro, not far from New York. Her parents were quite wealthy people: Eileen's mother is the owner of a personal antiques salon, her father Gerard Connelly is the founder of his own clothing business.
She got into the cinema very early, and this, one might say, happened by accident. It all started when a family friend who worked in the advertising industry proposed making ten-year-old Jenny a model. And two years later, the talented girl got her first movie job - she starred in the legendary drama by Sergio Leone “Once Upon a Time in America”, in one short scene. Then came the roles in the films "Phenomenon", "Seven Minutes in Heaven", "Labyrinth" (in tandem with David Bowie).
The most famous roles and the last shooting
But the real success came later. One of her most popular images is the drug addict's girlfriend in the film Requiem for a Dream. Although the actress at that time was thirty years old, she successfully coped with the image of a young, but already sunk to the bottom of the girl.
In 2001, there was the same Oscar-winning film "A Beautiful Mind", where Russell Crowe became her partner on the set. By the way, with this famous actor Jennifer had a chance to act twice in the future - in the melodrama "Love Through Time" and in the blockbuster "Noah".
To this day, the actress participates in filming with enviable regularity. For example, in 2017 she starred in the films Spider-Man: Homecoming and A Case for the Brave. And in December 2018, a new work will be presented in theaters with the participation of Jennifer Connelly - "Alita: Battle Angel" (directed by Robert Rodriguez).
Personal life of the actress
On the set of the film "The Rocketeer" (1991), Connelly became seriously interested in actor Bill Campbell, who played in the same film. Their relationship lasted five years, but then the young people still broke up. In 1997, Jennifer gave birth to a child - a boy named Kai. Photographer David Dagan became his biological father. Jennifer did not formally formalize her relationship with David.
During the filming of A Beautiful Mind, the star met the English actor Paul Bettany. They soon began dating and two years later became husband and wife. The couple have two children together - their son Stellan (born in the summer of 2003) and their daughter Agnes Lark (born in the spring of 2011). Today, the couple is called one of the strongest and most stable in Hollywood. Paul and Jennifer travel a lot in America. And sometimes their family can be seen not in luxury hotels, but in ordinary tents in the bosom of nature.
Jennifer Connelly is actively involved in charity work. But only this spectrum of her interests is not limited. To keep her fit, she swims and rides a bike. On the other hand, the actress is interested in such highly intellectual things as quantum physics and philosophy. Jennifer is also known to be vegan (refrains from eating meat).
