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Jennifer Connelly is one of the few actors who has always lived up to the audience's unreasonably high expectations. Her brilliant performance in her recent movie Top Gun: Maverick has received appreciation from critics and fans. Also, Twitter trends this year showed how the 52-year-old actor has caught the new generation's attention with both her talent and undeniable good looks.
Gen Z and Gen Alpha have dove into Connelly's earliest works to find inspiration for some of the trendiest videos on Youtube. In short, they've made the Jennifer Connelly of the 1980s and early 1990s, the "dream girl" of today. Here's why...
Inside Jennifer Connelly's Childhood
Jennifer Connelly was born on December 12, 1970, to a Catholic father and a Jewish mom. She lived in Brooklyn Heights initially and attended a private school named Saint Ann's. She started modeling at the age of 10 and appeared in TV commercials and print advertisements. After a short stay in Woodstock, New York, she returned to Brooklyn Heights with her family and completed high school there.
Then she started studying English literature at Yale University. After completing two years at the university, she moved to Stanford University to study drama. But she had to leave college abruptly to pursue a career in movies.
Among Connelly's earliest jobs, she appeared in the American teenage magazine Seventeen and even sang two Japanese pop songs that became massive hits in Japan. In one of her interviews with The Guardian, she revealed that she had no aspirations to become an actress after having done some modeling. But destiny might have had other plans for her.
How Jennifer Connelly Became An Actor
Jennifer's mother, Eileen Connelly, was the one who started taking her to auditions. When the actor was 12 years old, she got her first break in a supporting role in Robert De Niro's Once Upon A Time In America.
Connelly's first role as a leading lady was in the movie Phenomena in 1985 with the Italian Giallo director Dario Argento. She played a girl who uses psychic skills to communicate with insects to hunt down the killer of Swiss school students. Then came her movie Labyrinth, with David Bowe, which became a cult classic.
People started recognizing her acting talent with her movie Hot Spot where she played the role of Gloria Harper, a woman who was being blackmailed. Although the film failed to break records at the box office, Jennifer's beauty and acting received appreciation. It was for the movies Requiem For A Dream (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001) that the versatile actress received worldwide critical recognition. The film also helped her bag some prestigious awards, including the BAFTA, Critics' Choice Award, and Golden Globe. She even won an Academy Award for her supporting role in A Beautiful Mind.
Some of the famous movies for the actress are The Incredible Hulk, Reservation Road, Higher Learning, Blood Diamond, Pollock, House of Sand and Fog, and Dark City.
How YouTube Made Young Jennifer Connelly A Dream Girl
Several videos on YouTube prominently display young Jennifer Connelly pictures and movie clips. She looks flawlessly gorgeous in all these videos. There's no doubt that her ethereal beauty has made a splash on the Internet.
Among the most popular videos that feature a young Jennifer Connelly is a fan-made video by Diana Darkangel. The video features clips from the 1991 film, Career Opportunities to Mr. Kitty's haunting synthpop song "After Dark". The unofficial music video romanticizes a young Jennifer Connelly in such a successful way that even Mr. Kitty himself (whose real name is Forrest LeMaire) recognized its impact online. He even credited the video for helping to make his song popular in 2020.
Stewart Seyfried posted the Mr. Kitty song again in a video titled "Jennifer Connelly in the 90s was the hottest woman alive" by a year back. There's no doubt that the title caught the attention of the viewers.
One person even commented, "It hurts so bad this young Jennifer Connelly can't be cloned, and I'd have this Jennifer Connelly of my own. I want to hug and kiss her forever and ever because of how beautiful she looks."
Another successful YouTube video, by a Chinese YouTuber, showed her transformation from 14 to 52 years old. It has received more than 1 million views. The best thing about this video is that it showed many of Jennifer's expressions from different scenarios in her old and new films. One can quickly notice the transformation of an innocent-looking teenager to a full-grown, mature woman.
One video titled "Jennifer Connelly Evolution (1984-2022)" by Actress Evolution has received 969 thousand views and more than 300 comments. One person wrote, "From 80s to today's Topgun , age never expired, and she is still one of the beautiful gorgeous actress in Hollywood. I have been watched her movies since 1986 !"
YouTube has undoubtedly made the evergreen actress more desirable to young people. The way she embodies nostalgia for a time that they weren't even alive for is clearly intoxicating. It now seems the topic of young Jennifer Connelly's grace and beauty is never-ending.
