When she was a teenager, she appeared in some commercials in Japan.
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She initially enrolled at Yale, where she studied English, but ended up transferring to Stanford.
Waking the Dead opened the door to meatier roles for Connelly.
The curb stomp scene in American History X.
After graduating from high school, Connelly studied English literature at in 1988.