Jennifer Connelly – Biography, Career, Movies & TV Shows, Net Worth

Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Connelly began her career as a child model before becoming one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actors. She had many advertisements in newspapers, magazines, and television before appearing in Once Upon a Time in America in 1984. Her first leading role in Phenomena was won by her shortly after her debut in 1985. Her performance in the 2001 biopic A Beautiful Mind earned her an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award.

Real Name/Full NameJennifer Lynn Connelly
Date Of Birth12 December 1970
Age53 years old
BirthplaceCairo, New York, United States.
NationalityAmerican.
ReligionChristianity
Zodiac signSagittarius
Height5 feet 6 inch
Weight60 kg
Spouse Paul Bettany.
ChildrenAgnes Lark Bettany, Kai Dugan, and Stellan Bettany.
SiblingsNot Known
ProfessionActor
Net worth$50 Million.

Biography

Cairo, New York was the place where Jennifer Connelly was born, with Ilene and Gerard Connelly as her parents. Her father had a career in clothing manufacturing and her mother had a career in antiques dealership. Saint Ann’s school was where she went to school, where she was raised in Brooklyn Heights.

Personal Life

Paul Bettany, a famous actor who has appeared in films like Legion, A Knight Tale, and WandaVision, is the person she is married to. In 2001, the two bonded while filming A Beautiful Mind and wed on January 1, 2003 in Scotland.

The American actress has three children. She and her ex-boyfriend David Dugan have a son named Kai Dugan. In July 1997, he was born. Agnes Lark and Stellan are the names of her two children with Paul Bettany. On May 31, 2011, Agnes was born, the youngest daughter of Jennifer Connelly.

Career

After studying English at Yale and graduating from Stanford with a degree in drama, Jennifer Connelly returned full-time under the direction of yet another legend—Dennis Hopper—in his often overlooked Texas noir, The Hot Spot (1990) with Don Johnson and Virginia Madsen.

A son, Kai, was born to Connelly and photographer David Dugan in 1997.

Connelly continues to favor unconventional roles while also occasionally pursuing mainstream movie roles. In recent years, she has been extremely busy, starring in Requiem For A Dream, Pollock, and the television series The $treet. She was recognized with her first Academy Award in 2002 for her role in the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind where she played the wife of brilliant schizophrenic John Forbes Nash, Jr. Other notable films she has worked on include Blood Diamond (2006), He’s Just Not That Into You (2009), and Virginia (2012). In 2014, she starred with Russell Crowe in Noah. Afterwards, she was a cast member in Aloft (2014), Noah (2014), Shelter (2014), directed by her husband Paul Bettany, and American Pastoral (2016) with Ewan McGregor.

In 2017, she was cast in the drama Only the Brave with Jeff Bridges and Josh Brolin.

Alita: Battle Angel (2019) was directed by Mahershala Ali and Christoph Waltz. Since shooting her role (replacing Kelly McGillis) with Tom Cruise in 2018 in Top Gun: Maverick 2022, Connelly has devoted her energies for only the second time in her career to TV, with the TNT series version of Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer (2020-2022) with Daveed Diggs and Sean Bean.

Jennifer Connelly Movies & TV Shows

Movies & TV ShowYear
Duran Duran: Union of the Snake1983
Once Upon a Time in America1984
Valley1985
Labyrinth1986
Some Girls1988
Ballet1989
The Hot Spot1990
Career Opportunities1991
The Rocketeer1991
Roy Orbison: I Drove All Night1992
The Heart of Justice1992
Of Love and Shadows1994
The World of Jim Henson1994
Higher Learning1995
Out There1995
Mulholland Falls1996
Far Harbor1996
Inventing the Abbotts1997
Dark City1998
Waking the Dead2000
The $treet (TV Series)2000
Requiem for a Dream2000
Pollock2000
A Beautiful Mind2001
Best of Bowie2002
Hulk2003
House of Sand and Fog2003
Dark Water2005
Boffo! Tinseltown’s Bombs and Blockbusters2006
Little Children2006
Blood Diamond2006
Reservation Road2007
Premio Donostia a Antonio Banderas2008
The Day the Earth Stood Still2008
Inkheart2008
He’s Just Not That Into You2009
9 (voice)2009
Creation2009
Virginia2010
The Dilemma2011
Salvation Boulevard2011
Stuck in Love2012
Winter’s Tale2014
Noah2014
Aloft2014
Shelter2014
American Pastoral2016
Spider-Man: Homecoming (voice)2017
Only the Brave2017
Alita: Battle Angel2019
Snowpiercer (TV Series)2020
Top Gun: Maverick2022
Bad Behaviour2023
Dark Matter (TV Series)2024

Although Connelly has been critically acclaimed for many movies like, ‘Blood Diamond’, ‘Little Children’, and ‘Reservation Road’, etc. it was Ron Howard’s ‘A Beautiful Mind’ that won her an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA.

Net Worth

The estimated net worth of Jennifer Connelly is $50 million. Her extensive career in film and television has contributed to her wealth. Her wealth has been bolstered by her starring in numerous acclaimed films, as well as her brand endorsements and other business ventures.

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