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Jennifer Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American actress who began her career as a child model. She portrays [[Melanie Cavill]] on [[TNT]]'s [[Snowpiercer]]. | |||
Jennifer Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American actress who began her career as a child model. She portrays [[Melanie Cavill]] on [[ | |||
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Jennifer Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American actress who began her career as a child model. She portrays Melanie Cavill on TNT's Snowpiercer.
Biography
Connelly was born in Cairo, New York, in the Catskill Mountains. She is the daughter of Ilene, an antiques dealer, and Gerard Karl Connelly (1941–2008), a clothing manufacturer. Her father was Roman Catholic, and of Irish and Norwegian descent. Connelly's mother was Jewish, and was educated at a yeshiva;[dubious – discuss] all of Connelly's maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Poland and Russia. Connelly was raised primarily in Brooklyn Heights, near the Brooklyn Bridge, where she attended Saint Ann's, a private school specializing in the arts. Her father suffered from asthma, so the family moved to Woodstock, New York, in 1976 to escape the city smog. Four years later, the family returned to Brooklyn Heights, and Connelly returned to Saint Ann's.
After graduating high school, Connelly went to Yale University in 1988 to study english literature. Connelly describes herself as a studious student who "wasn't really concerned with having a social life or sleeping or eating much. I was really nerdy and pretty much stayed in the law-school library, which is open 24 hours, most of the time I wasn't in class".[11] After two years at Yale, Connelly transferred to Stanford University in 1990 to study drama. There, she trained with Roy London, Howard Fine and Harold Guskin. Encouraged by her parents to continue with her film career, Connelly left college and returned to the movie industry the same year.
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Actress
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