Jennifer Connelly American actress

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Academy Awards

2001: Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash in A Beautiful Mind

Other Nominees

• Helen Mirren as Mrs. Wilson in Gosford Park
• Maggie Smith as Constance, Countess of Trentham, in Gosford Park
• Marisa Tomei as Natalie Strout in In the Bedroom
• Kate Winslet as Young Iris Murdoch in Iris

Jennifer Connelly, who began modeling as a child in print and television advertising, appeared briefly in Sergio Leone’s epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984), her first serious film. She went to Yale and Stanford universities and, at the latter, studied theater. She was cast in teen roles in some of her early films and as a mature ingenue in others. She attracted notice with leading parts in The Rocketeer (1991), a pulp fiction adventure, and Requiem for a Dream (2000), about drug addiction. She was given the Academy Award for her supporting role in A Beautiful Mind (2001), in which she portrayed the wife of the brilliant but schizophrenic math professor John F. Nash. Playing Alicia Nash opposite Russell Crowe (AAN), she struggles to be sympathetic as her husband declines into mental illness. She followed that success with two costarring roles in 2003: in Hulk and House of Sand and Fog.