Actress Jennifer Connelly lost 25 pounds to play a homeless woman in her husband Paul Bettany’s directorial debut “Shelter”. Connelly maintains a healthy diet of vegetables, beans, grains, fish, nuts, and fruit.

Jennifer Connelly also does yoga and runs at least four times a week to keep her shape. Connelly rose to prominence in Jim Henson’s 1986 fantasy Labyrinth.

Jennifer Connelly’s most prominent work has been ‘A Beautiful Mind (2001)’ in which she played the character Alicia Nash, wife of schizophrenic mathematician and noble laureate John Nash. The role got her an Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe.

Jennifer Lynn Connelly hails from Cairo, New York, in the United States. She attended a private art school, Saint Ann’s School. She was raised in Brooklyn Heights and began modeling after her parents submitted a picture of her to the Ford Modeling Agency.

Jennifer Connelly had a role in the 2014 film adaptation of the 1983 Mark Helprin novel, Winter’s Tale, the directorial debut of Akiva Goldsman. Connelly won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ron Howard’s biopic A Beautiful Mind (2001).