Jennifer Connelly - American Actress, Child Model.
Connelly was born in Cairo, New York , in the Catskill Mountains . She is the daughter of Ilene, an antiques dealer, and Gerard Karl Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. [3] [4] Her father was Roman Catholic , and of Irish and Norwegian descent. [5] Connelly's mother was Jewish , [6] [7] and was educated at a yeshiva ; [8] [9] all of Connelly's maternal great-grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Poland and Russia . [10] [11] Connelly was raised primarily in Brooklyn Heights , near the Brooklyn Bridge , where she attended Saint Ann's , a private school specializing in the arts. [11] Her father suffered from asthma , so the family moved to Woodstock, New York , in 1976 to escape the city smog . [3] Four years later, the family returned to Brooklyn Heights, and Connelly returned to Saint Ann's School. [1] After graduating from high school, Connelly studied English literature at Yale University in 1988. Connelly has