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Jennifer Lynn Connelly (b. December 12, 1970, Catskill Mountain, New York) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Connelly is remembered by genre fans for her role in the film Labyrinth as Sarah and her later performances in Dark City, and Hulk as Betty Ross. Connelly won an Oscar for her Supporting Role in A Beautiful Mind alongside Russell Crowe and Ed Harris.
Connelly grew up in Brooklyn Heights, New York City. She got her start in the entertainment world as a model beginning at age 10. Her first acting role was a guest appearance on the horror anthology series Tales of the Unexpected. She made her film debut in Once Upon a Time in America in 1984. Connelly attended Yale University for two years before transferring to Stanford. Her first genre film was Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985) in which she played a gifted student who works with a entomologist to solve a series of murders.
Now a proven actress, Connelly moved on to roles in Jim Henson's fantasy adventure Labyrinth in which she played a teen girl who wishes her brother away only to be forced to rescue him from the Goblin King, portrayed by David Bowie. Five years later, she was in the serial-inspired feature, The Rocketeer.
She moved on to more mature roles in the mid-90's. She starred alongside Omar Epps and Kristy Swanson in Higher Learning, and Liv Tyler in Inventing the Abbots. She returned to genre film in 1998 in Alex Proyas' Dark City. In 2000 she appeared in the biopic Pollock with Ed Harris. Other notable roles include House of Sand and Fog in which she played a California home owner whose home is mistakenly foreclosed, Dark Water, Little Children and Blood Diamond.
In 2008, Connelly appears in the film adaptation of the self help book He's Just Not That Into You with Scarlett Johansson and Ben Affleck. She will also lend her voice to the post-apocalyptic animation 9 and in 2009 will appear alongside Keanu Reeves in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
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