Jennifer Connelly is an American actress, appearing in her first film at the age of 11, and nine films by the time she turned 20. Even with her early success, Connelly remained relatively unknown to the general public until the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream. She won an Oscar for her lead role in the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind,
The film made a lot of money in Europe but, unfortunately, was heavily cut for American distribution. The late 1980s saw her appearing in a smash hit and three lesser seen films. Amongst the latter was her roles in Étoile (1989), as a ballerina and in Some Girls (1988), where she played a self-absorbed college freshman. The smash hit was Labyrinth (1986), released in 1986. Jennifer got the job after a nation-wide talent search for the lead in this fantasy directed by Jim Henson and produced by George Lucas. Her career entered in a terribly calm phase after those films, until Dennis Hopper, who was impressed after having seen her in "Some Girls," cast Jennifer as an ingénue small-town girl in The Hot Spot (1990), based upon the 1950s crime novel "Hell Hath No Fury".
Connelly's complex portrayal resulted in another flurry of critical acclaim and awards buzz, though much of acclaim went to co-stars Kingsley and Shohreh Aghdashloo. Next was the high class entry into the horror genre with "Dark Water" (2005), in which she played a protective single mother who moves into a dilapidated and disturbing apartment house and finds herself tormented by inexplicable events involving dark, shadowy water.
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