Jennifer Connelly

[gossiphoundgirl]

I didn't see a thread on the introspective and lovely Jennifer Connelly, and thought I'd start one.

Anyone else a big fan? Or at the very least, does anyone have gossip/info about how the shoot with Leo DiCaprio (for The Blood Diamond) is going?

I'm all ears...

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I remember seeing her first in The Labyinth with David Bowie when I was a teen. I was so jealous of how beautiful she was. Huge boobs even at a young age.

She has become a real talent, but I wish she would stop dieting, I think she is prettier with a few pounds on though.

[emersende]

Love her. Dark Harbor was incredibly boring, but about two-thirds of the way through she has a monologue about the death of her and her husband's child that knocked me on my ass. That's when I realized what a good actress she really is.

There's a rumor that she's playing Lady MacBeth opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman. I can't wait to see that.

[mariposalabrown]

At a party in college, this random girl came up to me and my roommate and said "You look like the girl from Rebel Without a Cause (to me) and you look like Sarah from Labryinth (to roomie)". When I am usually flattered to be compared to Natalie Wood, I was jealous as hell that time. Jennifer Connelly is the kind of beautiful that my boyfriend can drool over, and I don't get jealous. I'm drooling too.

ETA: My ole roomate looked ridiculously just like her, but she was a hippie chick with very hairy legs that she showed off, so I never got too too jealous of her. I'm awful.

[veronicamars]

Drop dead gorgeous and naturally so. Amazing actress, who has come a long way if you remember the really bad teenie movies she made-for a while there, she was in b movie hell, but she has turned it around.

[gossiphoundgirl]

Oh, whitefalcon, I agree...although she looked quite meaty in Pollock and Dark City.

The worst she's looked was at the Oscars (in that seafoam-coloured strapless gown by Balenciago), IMHO. But at least the girl brought home the Academy Award!

The funniest thing is, I'm a fan of hers but I have yet to see The Labrynth. I've seen every single other film (one of my faves is Waking the Deas), though. Even the godawful Higher Learning.

I admire not only her obvious beauty, but her intelligence, and the fact that she sought a college education despite her celebrity, and she's become a more focussed and responsible person as a result of having children.

Some of these birdbrained celebs like Katie-bot and Denise Richards need to take a lesson from her.

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Professionally speaking, she needs to lighten up. You can be serious actress and not play an endless stream of depressed and depressing individuals.

[gossiphoundgirl]

Hmmm. True, she seems to gravitate toward more tortured characters. I did hear, however, that she's interested in stretching and playing a comedy. I'd be there in a sec.

[sugarhigh]

I confuse her with Kate Beckinsale.

[chiqui]

She was awful in Labyrinth. Couldn't. Act. At. All.