Biography
Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American actress. She began her career as a child model before making her acting debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America. After having worked as a model for several years, she began to concentrate on acting, starring in a variety of films including the horror film Phenomena (1985), the musical fantasy film Labyrinth (1986), the romantic comedy Career Opportunities (1991), and the period superhero film The Rocketeer (1991). Sh...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
as Self
Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man wh...

Bad Behaviour
2023
as Lucy
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship wit...

Bad Behaviour
2023
Executive Producer
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship wit...

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
as Self
To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema...

Top Gun: Maverick
2022
as Penny Benjamin
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” ...

Alita: Battle Angel
2019
as Chiren
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes ...

Only the Brave
2017
as Amanda Marsh
Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.

Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017
as Karen / Suit Lady (voice)
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary hig...

American Pastoral
2016
as Dawn Levov
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their fam...

Shelter
2014
as Hannah
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we rea...

Noah
2014
as Naameh
A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

Winter's Tale
2014
as Virginia Gamely
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

Aloft
2014
as Nana Kunning
As we follow a mother and her son, we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and...

Stuck in Love
2013
as Erica
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumu...

Salvation Boulevard
2011
as Gwen Vanderveer
Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born-again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his m...

The Dilemma
2011
as Beth
Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. They are hard at work on a presentation for a dream project that would really lau...

Virginia
2010
as Virginia
A sheriff sees his state senate bid slide out onto the ice when his daughter begins to date the son of a charming but psychologically disturbed woman ...

Creation
2009
as Emma Darwin
A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to ...

9
2009
as #7 (voice)
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small comm...

He's Just Not That Into You
2009
as Janine Gunders
Have you ever sat by the phone wondering why he said he would call, but didn't, or you can't figure out why she doesn't want to sleep with you anymore...

Inkheart
2008
as Roxanne
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.

The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008
as Helen Benson
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether human...

Reservation Road
2007
as Grace Learner
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In respo...

Journey Through the Labyrinth
2007
Thanks
A retrospective look back at Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy film 'Labyrinth'.

Blood Diamond
2006
as Maddy Bowen
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missio...

Little Children
2006
as Kathy Adamson
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to ...
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
2005
as Self

Dark Water
2005
as Dahlia Williams
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. Dahlia is in the midst of divorce proceedings, ...

House of Sand and Fog
2003
as Kathy
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. ...

Hulk
2003
as Betty Ross
Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a ragin...

Inside a Beautiful Mind
2002
as Self
"Behind-the-scenes" documentary on the making of and public reaction to the Ron Howard/Brian Grazer film "A Beautiful Mind." Featuring rare interviews...

A Beautiful Mind
2001
as Alicia Nash
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, ...

The Making of Requiem for a Dream
2001
as Self
A dive into the production of Darren Aronofsky's psychological drama.

Requiem for a Dream
2000
as Marion Silver
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Pollock
2000
as Ruth Kligman
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United Sta...

Waking the Dead
2000
as Sarah Williams
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

Dark City
1998
as Emma Murdoch
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic ...

Inventing the Abbotts
1997
as Eleanor Abbott
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, love...

Far Harbor
1996
as Ellie
A group of seven young people spend a weekend in the home of a wealthy yuppie on Long Island and live out their problems.

Mulholland Falls
1996
as Allison Pond
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

Out There
1995
as Woman in Grocery Line (uncredited)
A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. After he purchases an old camera at a yard sale, he...

Higher Learning
1995
as Taryn
African-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will ...

The World of Jim Henson
1994
as Sarah (archive footage)
In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explored, from his six-second commercial beginnings to a...

Of Love and Shadows
1994
as Irene
Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene f...

The Heart of Justice
1992
as Emma Burgess
David Leader investigates a seemingly senseless murder, and in the course of it is drawn into the labyrinth of a sinisterly unique wealthy family...

The Rocketeer
1991
as Jenny Blake
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost...

Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air
1991
as Self
American TV-Special hosted by Bill Campbell, star of "The Rocketeer". A sneak peak at the film "The Rocketeer" with behind the scenes interviews and ...
The Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic
1991
as Self
Celebrities salute Disney Studios' 50th year in Burbank, California.

Career Opportunities
1991
as Josie McClellan
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalize...

The Hot Spot
1990
as Gloria Harper
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.

Etoile
1989
as Claire Hamilton / Natalie Horvath
An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.

Some Girls
1988
as Gabriella
While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he a...

Inside the Labyrinth
1986
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy film, 'Labyrinth', featuring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.

Labyrinth
1986
as Sarah
When Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she inadvertently summons the Goblin King and he whisks Toby away to his castle at the centre o...

Seven Minutes in Heaven
1986
as Natalie Becker
Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who ran away from home after a fight with his stepfather, to stay at her place while her father is away on a busine...

Phenomena
1985
as Jennifer Corvino
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability ...

Dario Argento's World of Horror
1985
as Self (Archive)
Documentary on horror/mystery filmmaker Dario Argento. Features an in-depth interview with Argento and covers his work from 1969 to 1985.

Once Upon a Time in America
1984
as Young Deborah
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the gh...