Connelly made her film debut at the age of 11 in Sergio Leone's gangster epic, Once Upon A Time in America and has demonstrated her dramatic range in a wide variety of roles since then.

Last year, she was seen in three provocative dramas. She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her haunting portrayal of a drug addict in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem For a Dream. She played Jackson Pollock's lover opposite Ed Harris in Pollock, a film Harris also directed, and she portrayed an idealistic activist opposite Billy Crudup in Keith Gordon's Waking the Dead.

Connelly had previously displayed her screen chemistry with Crudup in Imagine Entertainment's Inventing the Abbotts. She portrayed a femme fatale in the 1950's crime drama Mulholland Falls, a feminist coed in John Singleton's Higher Learning, a South American journalist in Of Love and Shadows, and a damsel in distress who is kidnapped by Nazis in The Rocketeer.

Her recent movie is Blood Diamond. In this movie she plays oposite Leonardo diCaprio and Djimon Hounsou.

Filmography

• Reservation Road (2007)
• Blood Diamond (2006)
• Little Children (2006)
• Dark Water (2005)
• House of Sand and Fog (2003)
• Hulk (2003)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• "The $treet" (12 episodes, 2000-2001)
• Pollock (2000)
• Requiem for a Dream (2000)
• Waking the Dead (2000)
• Dark City (1998)
• Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
• Far Harbor (1996)
• Mulholland Falls (1996)
• Higher Learning (1995)
• Of Love and Shadows (1994)
• The Heart of Justice (1993)
• The Rocketeer (1991)
• Career Opportunities (1991)
• The Hot Spot (1990)
• Some Girls (1988)
• Étoile (1988)
• Labyrinth (1986)
• Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985)
• Phenomena (1985)
• The Valley (1985)
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
• "Tales of the Unexpected" (1 episode, 1982)

Awards

• BAFTA Award Best Supporting Actress "A Beautiful Mind" 2002
• American Film Institute Award Featured Actor of the Year - Female - Movies "A Beautiful Mind" 2001
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Award Best Supporting Actress "A Beautiful Mind" 2001
• Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture "A Beautiful Mind" 2001
• Golden Satellite Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) "A Beautiful Mind" 2001
• Online Film Critics Society Award Best Supporting Actress "A Beautiful Mind" 2001
• Southeastern Film Critics Association Award Best Supporting Actress "A Beautiful Mind" 2001