Jennifer Connelly

The winner of Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her outstanding turn as Alicia Nash in 2001’s A Beautiful Mind, Jennifer Connelly got her start in a smaller role in 1984’s Once Upon a Time in America before taking the lead the next year in Dario Argento’s Phenomena (above).

The film, a typically creepy Argento affair, is an Italian-American production — also sometimes known as Creepers — about a young girl who has the unusual ability to communicate with insects. Her remarkable powers may help solve a string of murders at her Swiss boarding school.

Jennifer Connelly would of course go on to star in films from Labyrinth to The Rocketeer to Requiem for a Dream to 2022’s year’s mega-hit Top Gun: Maverick. She’s currently starring in Apple TV+’s Dark Matter, about a a man who discovers alternate universes that contain varied versions of himself.