Amanda Seyfried. Actress: Les Misérables. Amanda Seyfried was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Ann (Sander), an occupational therapist, and Jack Seyfried, a pharmacist. She is of German, and some English and Scottish, ancestry. She began modeling when she was eleven, and acted in high school productions as well as taking singing lessons.
Jennifer Connelly. Actress: A Beautiful Mind. Jennifer Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Ilene (Schuman), a dealer of antiques, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. Her father had Irish and Norwegian ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish immigrant family. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, except for the Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston will swap bodies in a new comedy from "Palm Springs" filmmaker Max Barbakow. Amazon landed the film after a bidding war between several studios and streamers .