Jennifer Connelly | Transformation From 10 To 47 Years Old

Birthday: December 12, 1970Nationality: AmericanFamous: Quotes By Jennifer Connelly MillionairesSun Sign: SagittariusAge: 48 Years, 48 Year Old FemalesAlso Known As: Jennifer Lynn ConnellyBorn In: Round TopFamous As: ActressHeight: 1.69 MFamily:Spouse/Ex-: Paul BettanyFather: GerardMother: Eileen ConnellyChildren: Kai Dugan, Stellan BettanyReligion: JewishPersonality: INFJNet Worth: $32 Million-------------------------Jennifer Lynn Connelly is an American actress who started out very young in the industry and made it very big. She started child modeling at the age of 10 when her father’s friend pursued the Connelly family to use her good looks for print and television commercials. For her first appearance in Hollywood movies, she was asked to perform a ballet routine. Connelly landed her lead roles in Italian movies and English language movies only when she was a teenager. Slowly and gradually she was making a mark for herself in the industry but all the attention and daunting work in the movies overwhelmed her and she decided to take a break and study drama in the Stanford University. She featured in the breakthrough role of her film career in the movie ‘Requiem for a Dream’ and after that there was no looking back for her with lead roles in movies like ‘A Beautiful Mind’, ‘Blood Diamond’, etc. For ‘A Beautiful Mind’ Connelly was honored with prestigious awards like Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA. The Character of ‘Alicia Nash’ that she portrayed in the movie was critically very well received.--------------Childhood & Early YearsJennifer Connelly was born in Cairo, New York, to Ilene and Gerard Connelly. Her father was a clothing manufacturer and her mother an antiques dealer. She was raised in Brooklyn Heights where she attended Saint Ann’s school.---------------CareerConnelly auditioned as a child model when she was 10, at the suggestion of a friend of her father’s. Her modeling career started with the Ford Modeling Agency and she appeared on the cover of several magazines and Japanese pop songs.In 1984, Connelly appeared in a Hollywood movie for the first time, in ‘Once Upon a Time in America’. She performed a ballet routine in the movie. During the same time, she made her first appearance on the television.She got her first lead roles in 1985 with the Italian horror movie, ‘Phenomena’ and ‘Seven Minutes in Heaven’. These movies did not do wonders for Connelly’s image but it got her the required media exposure and attention.In 1986, Connelly played a teenager in the fantasy film, ‘Labyrinth’. Her performance in the movie was highly criticized and the movie itself bombed at the box office but it became a cult film later.She took a little break from acting to join back school and make sense of the things as her acting career was growing larger. Connelly joined Yale in 1988 to study English and later joined Stanford to study drama.In 1990, Connelly’s parents encouraged her to join back movies and she left Stanford to act in ‘The Hot Spot