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Jennifer Connelly is remembering the lives of John and Alicia Nash following their tragic deaths in a car crash this weekend.

The 44-year-old actress won an Oscar back in 2002 for playing Alicia in the movie A Beautiful Mind, which won Best Picture as well.

“This is a great loss. John and Alicia Nash were an inspiration and I have deep admiration for all that they accomplished in their lives,” she said in a statement to JustJared.com. “My thoughts are with their family.”

Russell Crowe, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work as John Nash, released a statement on his Twitter account right after the sad news broke.

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Russell Crowe is “stunned” following the death of mathematician John Nash, the man he played in the film A Beautiful Mind back in 2001.

“Stunned…my heart goes out to John & Alicia & family. An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts,” the 51-year-old actor tweeted after hearing the news.

Russell was nominated for an Oscar for playing John and Jennifer Connelly won the Oscar for her work as the mathematician’s wife Alicia, who was also killed in the car crash.

The Nashes were ejected from a taxi cab driving on the New Jersey Turnpike on Saturday (May 23). They were both killed in the crash and the driver is facing non-life threatening injuries.

John Nash, the mathematician who was the subject of the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, is dead at 86 following a fatal car crash.

The Nobel Prize winner and his wife Alicia, 82, both were killed in the crash, which happened on Saturday (May 23) in New Jersey.

John and Alicia were riding in a taxi when the driver lost control while trying to pass a car in the center lane. The taxi crashed into a guard rail and the Nashes were ejected from the car.

“It doesn’t appear that they were wearing seatbets,” State Police Sgt. Gregory Williams told NJ.com.

John won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994 and he is known for his work in game theory. He and his wife become mental health care advocates after his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia, which is featured prominently in the film based on his life.

We send out our thoughts and condolences to the Nash family during this difficult time.

UPDATE: A Beautiful Mind star Russell Crowe has released a statement on the tragic deaths.