Jennifer Connelly
Actor
Jennifer Connelly won an Academy Award as best supporting actress for playing the wife of mathematician John Forbes Nash in
A Beautiful Mind (2001, with
Russell Crowe as Nash). Connelly was only 15 when she landed her first big role, in
Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy feature
The Labyrinth (costarring
David Bowie). She grew up to become a voluptuous leading lady in a variety of films, including the sextinged drama
The Hot Spot (1990), John Hughes's Career Opportunities (1990), the cartoony
The Rocketeer (1991, with a villainous
Timothy Dalton) and
Inventing the Abbots (1997, with
Liv Tyler and
Billy Crudup). She has also starred in the shortlived TV series
The $treet (2000), as
Jackson Pollock's mistress in the film
Pollock (2000) and with
Ben Kingsley in The House of Sand and Fog (2003).
Extra credit: Like
Jodie Foster, Connelly enrolled in Yale University; Connelly later transferred to Stanford... Connelly married actor Paul Bettany, who also appeared in
A Beautiful Mind, in a private ceremony in Scotland in December of 2002.
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