Acting just happened for Jennifer Connelly!
The Dark matter the star stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers this week to talk about her new show and open up about how her career came to be—namely, thanks to her mother!
“I started working when I was so young — I started working when I was 10,” said Connelly, 53. “And it wasn’t something I aspired to. I never even did a school play. Like, I didn’t even watch movies.”
“It was my mom’s idea, and I started working,” the Oscar winner recalled. “And then at a certain point, when I got a little older, I thought, ‘Do I really want to do this? This is not what I chose for my life.’ ”
“Well, I did, so obviously I chose again,” Connelly told host Seth Meyers. “But after a bit of investigation and really thinking about it.”
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Jennifer Connelly and mom Ilena in Hollywood, California in December 2003.
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Before she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 2001 A beautiful mindConnelly first broke out as Sarah opposite David Bowie’s Jareth the Goblin King in the 1986 musical fantasy film. Labyrinth.
Although the film — which follows teenage Sarah’s journey as she tries to save her little brother Toby from the clutches of doom — failed at the box office at the time, it has become a cult classic.
Other memorable film performances by Connelly include A rocket launcher (1991), Inventing Abbott (1997), Requiem for a dream (2000), Reservation road (2007), Stuck in Love (2012) and 2022 Top Gun: Maverick.
Although she has not acted in many TV series, Connelly has appeared in Snowpiercer from 2020 to 2022 and plays one of the main roles in the new sci-fi series Apple TV+, Dark matteropposite Joel Edgerton.
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Enter David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly Labyrinth (1986).
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In addition to being busy and busy with her career, Connelly is a mom of three. She shares a son Kai (26) with ex David Dugan and two children with her husband Paul Bettany, with whom she has been married for 21 years: son Stellan (20) and daughter Agnes (12).
And if she didn’t get into acting, “My son Stellan, he thinks I’d make a pretty good detective,” she told Meyers, 50, with a laugh.
“I say, ‘I’m not sure that’s a compliment,'” Connelly added. “Am I really? [a] hyper-vigilant mom who sees everything?”
Dark matterThe first two episodes are now streaming on Apple TV+, with new episodes every Wednesday.
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