This fresh-faced former child model made her film debut at age 12,
seen in flashbacks as the young incarnation of Elizabeth
McGovern's character in Sergio Leone's gangster epic "Once Upon a
Time in America" (1984). Horror cultists may remember her as the
girl who has a peculiar relationship with the insect world in
Dario Argento's Italian fear opus "Creepers" (1985).
Jennifer Connolly Naked subsequently was featured in mostly
forgettable teen fare, with the possible exception of Jim Henson's
"Labyrinth" (1986), in which she was overshadowed by David Bowie
and a cast of Henson creatures. That same year she was the bright
one among a trio of friends--Byron Thomas, Maddie Corman--in the
lightweight "Seven Minutes in Heaven". Connelly traded on her
attractive looks as the only innocent among Southern schemers in
Dennis Hopper's thriller, "The Hot Spot" and as the voluptuous
town beauty in the teen comedy "Career Opportunities" (both 1990).
She was perfectly cast as a 1940s Hollywood starlet who got the
guy in "The Rocketeer" (1991; Connelly and co-star Bill Campbell
also enjoyed an off-screen relationship as well).
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