In the Catskill Mountains of New York, Connelly was born in Cairo.
She is the daughter of garment producer Gerard Karl Connelly and antique trader Ilene Connelly. Irish Catholic by heritage, her father. All of Connelly’s maternal great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia; her mother was Jewish and received her education at a yeshiva.
Before making her acting debut in the 1984 crime movie Once Upon a Time in America, she started her career as a child model.
Connelly attended Saint Ann’s, a private school with a focus on the arts, and spent most of her childhood there in Brooklyn Heights, close to the Brooklyn Bridge. The family relocated to Woodstock, New York in 1976 to escape the haze of the city since her father had asthma. The family moved back to Brooklyn Heights four years later, and Connelly resumed his studies at Saint Ann’s School.
According to estimates, Jennifer Connelly is worth $50 million.
Jennifer earns $12 million per year.
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