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Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born dec. 12, 1970 (40 years ago)) is an American movie actress and former child model. Although she has been working in the movie industry since she was a teenager and catapulted to fame on the basis of her appearances in movies like Labyrinth and Career Opportunities, she gained a new level of acclaim and exposure following her work in the 2000 (10 years ago) drama Requiem for a Dream, and the 2001 (9 years ago) biopic A Beautiful Mind, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as the BAFTA and Golden Globe awards.

Early years
Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains of New York, the daughter of Ilene, an antiques dealer, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer who worked in the garment industry. Connelly's paternal grandparents were of Irish Catholic and Norwegian descent, respectively, while her maternal grandparents were Jewish, their families having come from the Russian Empire and Poland (Connelly's mother was schooled in a yeshiva). Connelly was raised in Brooklyn Heights, near the Brooklyn Bridge (6 walls), and attended St. Ann's School, except for four years the family spent living in Woodstock, New York. One of her father's friends was an advertising executive, who suggested that she audition at a modeling agency.

At the age of ten, Connelly's career started in newspaper and magazine ads, then moved to TV commercials. These led to movie auditions and her first movie role was as "young Deborah Gelly", a supporting role in Sergio Leone's 1984 (26 years ago) gangster epic, Once Upon a Time in America, filmed mostly in 1982 (28 years ago) when she was eleven. She next starred in Italian horror-director Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985, 25 years ago) and in the coming-of-age movie Seven Minutes in Heaven.

Career
Connelly became a star with her next picture, the fantasy Labyrinth (1986, 24 years ago), playing Sarah, a teenager who wishes her baby brother into the world of goblins ruled by goblin king Jareth (David Bowie), so she then must journey through a labyrinth to retrieve him. The movie disappointed at the box office, but gained a following among fantasy fans. Connelly starred in several obscure films, such as Etoile (1988, 22 years ago) and Some Girls (1988, 22 years ago). The Den...
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