Jennifer Connelly

Along with this odd Japanese single, she also has done many Japanese TV commercials. Further, a screenplay about Diller's early years in showbiz is in preproduction and actress Patricia Clarkson is slated to play Diller, for a film due in 2006. The B-side of the tape is Message of Love, an interview with music in the background. In an appearance on CNN's Larry King Live talk show in December of 2004, Diller announced that an authorized biography of her life is in the works. Around this time, Connelly had a strange career move, releasing Monologue of Love, a "charming" Japanese single with a semi-classical instrumental arrangement. She has since officially retired from standup performance. She returned to films in the 1990s, in such titles as The Rocketeer (1990), Dark City (1998), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Most recently, Diller has suffered serious medical problems which culminated in her being pronounced clinically dead for three minutes.

She began studying at Yale, but transferred two years later to Stanford. Diller is a proud grandmother several times over. She followed that with a major role in Jim Henson's film Labyrinth (1986). She has several children from her marriage to her first husband, on whom "Fang" was based. Her first film role was in the 1984 film Once Upon a Time in America, where she danced for the role of "young Deborah Gelly" in Sergio Leone's gangster epic. She was divorced twice and widowed once. At the age of 10, her career started in newspaper and magazine ads, then moved to television commercials. Phyllis Diller has been married three times.

The executive friend suggested Jennifer audition at a modelling agency. Diller's efforts have drawn numerous awards and acknowledgments from plastic surgeons and medical organizations. Her father was in the garment industry, and one of his close friends through the trade was an advertising executive. Diller has publicly discussed her plastic surgery, which changed her persona from being deliberately ugly to being chic and attractive for her age. Ann's School, except for four years the family spent living in Woodstock, New York. She is an accomplished pianist as well as a painter. Connelly grew up in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn near the Brooklyn Bridge, attending St. Diller, a longtime resident of Brentwood, credits much of her success to the late Bob Hope, and keeps a framed portrait of Hope above her grand piano in the living room of her home.

She has also a five-year-old son, Kai, from a previous relationship. In 1998, Diller parlayed her unique cackle into the vocals for "The Queen" in Disney/Pixar's animated move, A Bug's Life. Connelly is married to the British actor Paul Bettany, whom she met while working on a film; the couple has a son (born August 5, 2003). Diller also starred in two short-lived television series: The Pruitts of Southampton on ABC in 1966 and the variety show The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show on NBC in 1968. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager, she has only recently received critical acclaim for her work, most notably for Requiem for a Dream (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001), for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress. Diller also appeared in more than a dozen, generally low-budget movies, including as herself in the children's animated cult classic from 1968, The Monster Mash, co-starring Boris Karloff. Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970 in the Catskill Mountains, New York) is an American film actress. Diller's film appearances include a scene-stealing cameo appearance as a wisecracking lounge act emcee in the 1961 Hollywood production of Splendor in the Grass, starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty.

Dark Water (2004). Her main claim to fame is her stand-up comedy act. House of Sand and Fog (2003). In her heydey, Diller achieved a record that still stands today in the Guinness Book of World Records for delivering 12 punchlines per minute, which is typical of her often outrageous, stacatto style of comedy. Hulk (2003). It is here that Diller honed her act. A Beautiful Mind (2001). Later in the decade, her career took off after selling out 87 straight weeks at San Francisco's legendary Purple Onion nightclub.

Pollock (2000). A housewife, mother and advertising copywriter, she first came to public attention as a contestant on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life in the mid-1950s. Requiem for a Dream (2000). Phyllis Diller (born July 17, 1917) is an American comedian who created the stage character of a wild-haired, oddly-dressed housewife who was ugly but didn't realize it, and who spent her time cackling and waving a long cigarette holder while making jokes about a husband named "Fang." She is generally considered one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. Waking the Dead (2000). Dark City (1998).

Inventing the Abbotts (1997). Mulholland Falls (1996). Higher Learning (1995). The Rocketeer (1990).

Labyrinth (1986). Once Upon a Time in America (1984).