Īfter graduating from high school, Connelly studied English literature at Yale University in 1988.
Four years later, the family returned to Brooklyn Heights, and Connelly returned to Saint Ann's School. Her father suffered from asthma, so the family moved to Woodstock, New York, in 1976 to escape the city smog. Connelly was raised primarily in Brooklyn Heights, near the Brooklyn Bridge, where she attended Saint Ann's, a private school specializing in the arts. Connelly's mother was Jewish, and was educated at a yeshiva all of Connelly's maternal great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia. Her father was a Catholic of Irish descent. She is the daughter of Ilene, an antique dealer, and Gerard Karl Connelly, a clothing manufacturer.
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Since 2020, she has starred in the TNT dystopian television series Snowpiercer.Ĭonnelly was named Amnesty International Ambassador for Human Rights Education in 2005. In the subsequent decades, she took on supporting roles in Aronofsky's biblical epic film Noah (2014) and in the action films Alita: Battle Angel (2019) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). Her subsequent films include the superhero film Hulk (2003), the horror film Dark Water (2005), the psychological drama Little Children (2006), the drama film Blood Diamond (2006), the science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), the romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You (2009), and the biopic Creation (2009). In 2002, Connelly won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Alicia Nash in Ron Howard's biopic A Beautiful Mind (2001). She received praise for her performance in the science fiction film Dark City (1998) and playing a drug addict in Darren Aronofsky's drama film Requiem for a Dream (2000). 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). She began her career as a child model before making her acting debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America. In 2018, Flood was cast as Kate Littlejohn, a newly minted prosecutor working in the Southern District of New York's Federal Court on "For the People," a legal drama produced by Shonda Rhimes for her Shondaland shingle.Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born Decem) is an American actress.
The following year, Flood made her Broadway debut opposite Diane Lane, Joel Grey and Harold Perrineau in a production of "The Cherry Orchard," and lent her voice to the popular drama podcast "The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air" (2016- ), part of the "Night Vale Presents" series of radio/podcast productions. From there, Flood worked in regional theater across the United States, including multiple productions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and New York Theatre Workshop she also made her screen acting debut as a game designer harassed by online stalkers on a 2015 episode of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999- ), and followed this with a three-episodic arc on "Chicago Fire" (NBC, 2012- ). From there, she pursued her master's degree in acting at the Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company Consortium, where she earned critical praise for her performances in productions of both classical works and world premieres of new dramas. Born in New York City, Flood was raised in Santa Monica, California and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley. After a handful of television appearances and numerous stage roles, actress Susannah Flood made her debut as a series regular on the Shonda Rhimes-produced legal drama "For the People" (ABC, 2018- ).
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