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Jennifer
Connelly
Born: 12 December 1970 Catskill Mountains, New York
Height: 5' 7½"
Measurements: 34C/D-22-34
Academy Award-winning film American actress and former fashion model. Although she has been working in the film industry since
she was a teenager and catapulted to fame on the basis of her appearances in films like
"Labyrinth" and "Career Opportunities", she did not receive critical acclaim for her work until the 2000 drama
"Requiem for a Dream", and the 2001 biography "A Beautiful
Mind." The film was a critical and commercial success and earned Connelly a Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her appearance in "A Beautiful Mind" led to a featured article in TIME magazine.
Her career started in newspaper and magazine ads at the age of 10, then moved to television commercials. These led to movie auditions and her first film role was as "young Deborah Gelly", a supporting role in Sergio Leone's 1984 gangster epic, Once Upon a Time in America, filmed mostly in 1982 when she was eleven.
Connelly is a vegan. She is married to well-known English actor Paul Bettany (born 1971), whom she met while working on A Beautiful Mind. The couple's son, Stellan (named after actor Stellan Skarsgård), was born on August 5, 2003. She also has a son, Kai (born 1997), from her relationship with photographer David
Dougan.
The Hot Spot: Dennis Hopper's neo-noir starring Don Johnson as drifter Harry Madox, who has just arrived in a tiny Texas town in the
middle of nowhere and gotten a job selling used cars. He soon becomes involved with two very different women: Gloria Harper
(Jennifer Connelly), his boss's innocent young bookeeper, and Dolly Harshow (Virginia Madsen), the sexually hungry wife of his
boss (Jerry Hardin). And as if this weren't enough, Harry has a bank heist on the drawing board too.
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A saturnine vision of the universe
and an interest in the female form bordering on adoration have
been two constants of Dennis Hopper's directorial work. Both are
on display in this neo-noir, starring Don Johnson as cagey
drifter Harry Madox, who picks up a job from used car lot owner
George Harshaw (Jerry Hardin), soon after arriving in a small
Texas town. Attracting women is not one of Harry's problems, and
he's soon involved with Harshaw's innocent young bookkeeper,
Gloria Harper (Jennifer Connelly), and his tough, sexy wife,
Dolly (Virginia Madsen). An ambitious sort, Harry is also
planning to rob the local bank. But things begin to get strange
when he learns that Gloria is being extorted by nasty
backwoodsman Frank Sutton (William Sadler), who also seems to be
linked to Dolly. While not quite camp, the film is a triumph of
style over substance, as the characters obey the highly
improbable laws of the noir universe as religiously as any
Kabuki performer does theirs. Working with longtime
cinematographer Ueli Steiger, Hopper again reveals a fastidious
eye, and the lavish photography of the women evokes an era when
they were Hollywood's cynosure.
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Waking the
Dead: Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) is a promising young congressional candidate who becomes obsessed with the idea
that his dead lover, Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), is still alive. Because of her involvement with a group called Sanctuary that
harbors Chilean dissidents, Sarah is presumably killed in a car bombing. However, Fielding is never completely convinced that
she's truly gone and years later begins to see and hear her presence. Filled with revealing flashbacks, the film follows the
deeply involved romance of the ambitious Fielding and the idealistic Sarah during the 1970s while also portraying Fielding's
struggle to win his congressional bid in the 1980s. As his political campaign progresses, so does his belief that Sarah is still
alive, leading him to question his sanity and begin a desperate search to find her.
Alternating between the past and the present, Gordon's adaptation of the novel by Scott Spencer is a dreamy, mysterious affair that features supremely
convincing lead performances by Crudup and Connelly as well as solid supporting turns by Janet McTeer and Hal Holbrook. |
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Inventing
the Abbotts:
In the placid,
potboiler-perfect 1950s hamlet of Haley, Illinois, life revolves
around the wealthy and powerful Abbott family, which boasts three
strapping brunette daughters in addition to its other assets. On
the other side of the proverbial tracks live two fatherless
brothers--one idolizes the Abbotts, while the other seeks to
destroy the family by systematically deflowering and debasing the
sisters.
"...A glowingly attractive young cast and a thick, charged
atmosphere of romantic possibility....Mr. Crudup smolders
well....Ms. Going is strikingly lovely..." -- Janet Maslin,
New York Times |
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House of Sand and
Fog: Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly star in the powerful drama
as two people fighting over the same house. Connelly is Kathy, a troubled young woman struggling with addiction and her husband's departure. Lost in her
funk, she fails to check her mail, which includes letters threatening to evict her. After she is thrown out of the house she grew
up in--wrongly, it turns out, so she seeks legal representation--Massoud Amir Behrani (Kingsley) buys the property at auction
with the goal of selling it at a huge profit so his family can live a better life. Behrani, a former colonel in the
Iranian army, is determined to make his family's move to the United States a successful one--nothing matters more to him than his wife and
son's well-being. But when he sees Kathy sleeping in a car outside his fence, he knows he is in for a fight. Based on the book by
Andre Dubus III, Vadim Perelman's directorial debut is a fascinating study of family in the United States. Kathy has no one to
turn to--her father is dead, her husband has abandoned her, and she's too frightened to seek help from her mother or brother. She
falls for Lester (Ron Eldard), a deputy sheriff who claims to no longer love his wife. And Behrani is so dedicated to his wife
(Shohreh Aghidashloo in a riveting performance) and son (Jonahtan Ahdout) that he blinds himself to Kathy's dire situation. HOUSE
OF SAND AND FOG is a relentless, thought-provoking work that will linger with audiences long after the film ends. |
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Mulholland
Falls: Based on a real-life team of LAPD cops known as the "Hat Squad" (for their penchant for fancy headgear),
"Mulholland Falls" is set in the 1950s and follows the exploits of four macho detectives. Led by Max Hoover, the dicks
investigate the death of young, beautiful Allison Pond, with whom the married Max recently had an affair. The trail leads to a
number of higher-ups in the military, forcing a nervous J. Edgar Hoover to apply pressure on them to stay off the case. Making
matters worse are some steamy home movies featuring Max and Allison -- that mysteriously end up in the hands of Max's wife...
"...MULHOLLAND FALLS combines a vivid sense of place with a visceral directorial style that fuses controlled fury onto everything
it touches..." -- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"...It's a masterfully atmospheric film noir..." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
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