Jennifer Connelly Net Worth

Jennifer Connelly's Quotes

• Acting is great. When it works it is so fulfilling. You do the research and work with other talented people who are creative and compassionate and use all your faculties. The ability to express yourself completely is the most wonderful feeling in the world. Each film is a chapter in my life wherein I learn so much more about myself.
• I so much enjoy being able to completely allow myself to be consumed by a role, and really grow in the process,once you've done that, it's hard to go back working on things you don't care about.
• [talking about the films she did in the beginning of her career]: You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!
• [Talking about her character in A Beautiful Mind (2001)]: Alicia is the person who's trying to ground John Nash in reality and bring him home, literally, and back to what he was. In "A Beautiful Mind", there are scenes that were painful and scary and sad. I didn't have to go through degradation as I did in Requiem for a Dream (2000), but there is a lot of emotional terrain in this movie. There's a tragedy in the family and it takes a toll on each of them as they try to live with each other.
• [talking about her son Kai Dugan]: We've already done plays together. Very short plays. He dictates them to me. Sometimes he casts me, sometimes he doesn't. And when I'm in the play, he'll sometimes say to me, "No Mom, you didn't say that right!"

Interesting Facts about Jennifer Connelly

1. Has a son, Kai Dugan (born 10 July 1997), with photographer David Dugan.
2. Cut a single in Japan, which she sang in phonetic Japanese. She says her agent made up the idea that she is semi-fluent in the language.
3. Is fluent in French and Italian.
4. Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
5. The character Veronica in Heathers (1989) was originally written with her in mind, but she turned the role down.
6. Daughter-in-law of actor Thane Bettany and Anne Kettle.
7. First child with husband Paul Bettany, a son named Stellan Bettany, born 5 August, 2003. Stellan's Godfather is the actor Charlie Condou, Paul's best friend.
8. Her father was of Irish and Norwegian heritage. Her mother was from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Poland and Russia).
9. Named her son Stellan after Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård.
10. In three of her movies (Dark City (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), and House of Sand and Fog (2003)), she appears standing at the end of a pier in a striking image. All three directors created the shots for different reasons, and they are not an homage or reference to each other, just a coincidence.
11. She was nearly cast as Diane Court in Cameron Crowe's Say Anything... (1989). Ione Skye got the part instead.
12. Enrolled at Yale as an English major, then transferred two years later to Stanford.
13. Ranked #14 in Celebrity Sleuth's "25 Sexiest Women of 1993".
14. Ranked #53 in Stuff's "103 Sexiest Women" (2003).
15. Ranked #74 in FHM-USA's "100 Sexiest Women" (2002).
16. Ranked #85 in Askmen's "Most Desirable Woman" (2002).
17. Ranked as #88 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005).
18. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#54). [2007].
19. Auditioned for the title role of Firestarter (1984).
20. With A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Reservation Road (2007), has now played the wife of Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix, who both appeared in Gladiator (2000) = Crowe as the hero and Phoenix as the villain.