Jennifer Connelly is an American film actress and former child model.

Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager and catapulted to fame on the basis of her appearances in films like Labyrinth and carrer opportunities she did not receive wide exposure for her work until the 2000 drama Requiem for a Dream, and the 2001 biopic A Beautiful Mind, for which she won an Academy Award ( Oscar ) for Best Supporting Actress, as well as the BAFTA and Golden Globe awards.