Female Celebrity Smoking List - Nielsen

	•	smoked, Tonight Show, mid 80's
	•	said her ideal evening would consist in "taking a long bath with some cake and my cigarettes", UK newspaper, where?, c. late 80's
	•	"What has annoyed you most today? 'Someone saying 'You can't smoke in this building.' I know smoking is horrible for you, but I love it.'", Sunday Express (Magazine supplement), Aug. 20, '00
	•	smoked at least six Marlboro Lights, including dangling and shielding a lighting with cupped hands during two-hour live show, NDR Talk Show (North German Television), Jun. 29, '01
	•	"doesn't follow a slavish fitness regime. Chain-smoking throughout her entrepreneur pal Keith Gardner's party in Cheltenham", Mail on Sunday (UK), Aug. 24, '03
	•	"The first thing she would have to do, she said, was give up smoking...After a quick photocall, the statuesque Ms Nielsen left the conference, probably for a fag", The Guardian (UK), Sep. 11, '04
	•	"CHARO, CLASHED WITH: Brigitte. 'She drinks, she smokes. I don't agree with the [nudity].'", People Magazine, Sep. 13, '04
	•	shown smoking, talks about Americans and their intolerance of cigarettes , The Surreal life (season 3), c. '04
	•	"puffed on a cigarette", Digital Spy (UK), Jan. 10, '05
	•	"smoked in the outside snug...finished her cigarette", Digital Spy (UK), Jan. 10, '05
	•	"has taken up chain-smoking and nail-biting since the arrival in the house of Sly's mother", The Times (UK), Jan. 13, '05
	•	"Prepare for Fag-gate 2 as 40-a-day Brigitte is on the verge of running out", Daily Mirror (UK), Jan. 17, '05
	•	"she smokes...'She's only got 10 cigs left, I see potential trouble down the road. I can't stand grumpy smokers'", Daily Mirror (UK), Jan. 17, '05
	•	"[fellow contestant] told her she was suffering from a lack of cigarettes in the house. 'I was waiting for the ciggy snap to come from you,' he said", London Evening Standard (UK), Jan. 21, '05
	•	"Her mood improved later when Big Brother provided her with three cigarettes", The Scotsman (UK), Jan. 22, '05
	•	"was initially unhappy that the goodie pack did not contain cigarettes", Digital Spy (UK), Jan. 23, '05
	•	"She smokes nonstop as if she knows something we don't about a connection between cigarettes and health...in between cigarettes", Richmond Times-Dispatch, Feb. 11, '05
	•	"She chain-smokes, even while dining", Lansing State Journal, Feb. 12, '05
	•	"chain-smokes, even while dining", Salt Lake Tribune, Feb. 14, '05
	•	quit - "has replaced her alcohol and nicotine addictions with an unhealthy habit for over-eating... has gained weight since she gave up smoking and drinking... 'I stopped drinking, I stopped smoking'", Sify (India), Jan. 12, '08
	•	quit -"has replaced her alcohol and nicotine addictions with a new unhealthy vice for binge eating. The Scandinavian actress-turned-reality TV show star has piled on the pounds since giving up smoking and booze following a rehab stint last year", PR Inside, Jan. 12, '08
	•	quit - "I stopped smoking Sept. 4 ['07]", ABC news, Jan. 12, '08
	•	quit - "I also stopped smoking after 30 years of cigarettes", Blogcritics magazine, Sep. 27, '08
	•	photograph of her smoking, Clip of her blowing out smoke at the camera, E! True Hollywood Stories, when?

Pictures of her smoking

	•	carrying Marlboro Light, TV Guide, c. late 80's
	•	article on dangers of women smoking, Cleo Magazine, Jul. '91
	•	holding pack, Bunte Magazine (Germany), Jul. 29, '93
	•	carrying, People Magazine, c. '93
	•	holding at party, Gala (Germany), Nov. 2, '00
	•	NDR Talk Show (North German Television), Jun. 29, '01
	•	full page, posed, holding, Esquire (UK), May '03
	•	row 5, number 3, Chained Heat II (1993), website

Collections of pictures of her smoking

	•	three, column 2, row 5, website, when?
	•	multiple, website, when?
	•	row 1, number one, row 2, number 4, website, when?
	•	Italian Smoking Celebs
	•	Celebs Smokers

Pictures from the net

	dragging, 64k
	dangling, 126k
	holding, 37k
	holding, 326k
	posed, dangling, 65k
	candid, holding, 57k
	posed, dangling, 24k
	holding to mouth, 21k

TV/Movies she smokes in:

Bye Bye Baby (1988) (smoking review *)
Chained Heat II (1993) (smoking review)
Codename: Silencer (1996) (smoking review)
Domino (1988) (smoking review)
Rocky IV (1985) (smoking review)
Snowboard Academy (1996) (smoking review)
"Celebrity Big Brother" (2001) (smoking review)
"Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" (2008) (smoking review)
"Strange Love" (2005) (smoking review)
"Surreal Life, The" (2003) (smoking review)

Connie Nielsen

Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Probably, unconfirmed

Profession = actress

Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Her pictures at SmokingCelebs.com

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Nude pics and clips at MrSkin.com

Cigar/Cigarette Brand

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Marlboro Light

Miscellaneous information

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video, Celebrity Smoking Videos, when?

Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"

	•	"inhaling a Marlboro Light", USA Today, May 8, '00, p. D1
	•	"'It was a very bad movie but one which I jumped at the chance to do!' she says, with a laugh, inhaling a Marlboro Light", Vancouver Province, May 30, '00
	•	"the W hotel ... is one place in politically-correct New York where she can smoke with impunity", Harpers, Jul. '00
	•	"I have all kinds of superstitions, like don't light my third cigarettewith the same match", SimplyCity Magazine, Oct. '00
	•	"She is sitting in a chair at the luxurious Hotel D` Angleterre in Copenhagen, smoking cigarettes and explains why people have to talk about a lot of female actors to explain who Connie Nielsen is", "Nielsen lights a new cigarette", Dagbladet (Norway), Dec. 7, '02
	•	Nielsen smoked in the off-screen interviews, Demonlover (2002) DVD, c. '02
	•	"'I sit in a chair at the start and by the end I'm lying on the floor', she says, lighting an umpteenth cigarette ... she calls over the waitress for more cigarettes", Glasgow Herald (UK), Feb. 22, '03
	•	"After the obligatory apologies for her tardiness, we settled into a corner table, where she promptly began smoking like a Viking", "Nielsen smoked four cigarettes in one hour", w/ picture, holding, Esquire, Mar. '03
	•	"I'm a smoker and I drink coffee and I don't do what people say you're supposed to do. Do what makes you happy", Harper's Bazaar, Apr. '03, p. 158
	•	"'It's mentally demanding to sink yourself into a hellhole', Nielsen exclaims, demonstratively exhaling cigarette smoke.", Paper Magazine, Apr. '04
	•	"sheepishly admits to being a smoker. 'It's awful,' she confessed. 'I did quit for five years, starting when I was pregnant, but this job of acting is so stressful. Actors very much need their relaxation of all kinds, and sometimes smoking is the only way we can find to relax. It's not a drug in the usual sense. It doesn't alter your perception of reality, but it makes you feel like you can deal with things better. But I know I should quit'", New York Daily News, Feb. 3, '05
	•	"has started smoking again even though she's campaigning to raise awareness of heart disease amongst women...gave up the unhealthy habit for five years, but the stresses of acting pushed her into lighting up again. Nielsen says, 'I did quit for five years, starting when I was pregnant, but this job of acting is so stressful. Actors very much need their relaxation of all kinds, and sometimes smoking is the only way we can find to relax. It's not a drug in the usual sense. It doesn't alter your perception of reality, but it makes you feel like you can deal with things better. But I know I should quit' ", Contactmusic, Feb. 3, '05
	•	"Connie Nielsen has started smoking again, despite campaigning to raise awareness of heart disease in women. Nielsen said smoking was sometimes the only way to relax. 'I did quit for five years, starting when I was pregnant, but this job of acting is so stressful', she said", MX (Australia), Feb. 8, '05
	•	"Smoking a cigarette in her trailer", website