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Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21,
1979) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She
is well-known for her television and film roles in the
Fox television series Party of Five and its spin-off
Time Of Your Life, as Sarah Reeves, and also starred in
I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, as Julie
James. Hewitt can currently be seen on the CBS top-rated
television series Ghost Whisperer, as Melinda Gordon, a
young newlywed who communicates with the dead.
Early life and career: Hewitt was born in Waco,
Texas, to Herbert Daniel Hewitt and Patricia Mae Shipp.
Her father is a technician and her mother worked as a
speech-language pathologist. Hewitt grew up in Harker
Heights, Texas. After the divorce of her parents, Hewitt
and her only sibling, Todd Hewitt, were brought up by
her mother. Her first name was given to her by her
brother, after a girl he was fond of as a youngster,
while her middle name, "Love", was given to
her by her mother after her best friend in college.
As a young girl, Hewitt was attracted to music which led
to her first encounters with the entertainment industry.
At the age of three, she sang "The Greatest Love of
All" at a livestock show. Just a year after that,
at a restaurant-dance hall, she entertained an audience
with her version of "Help Me Make It Through the
Night". By the time she was five, Hewitt already
had tap dancing and ballet in her portfolio. At nine,
she became a member of the Texas Show Team (which also
toured in the Soviet Union). At the age of ten, at the
suggestion of talent scouts, she moved to Los Angeles,
California, with her mother to pursue a career in both
acting and singing.
Film and music career: After moving to Los
Angeles, Hewitt appeared in more than twenty television
commercials. Her first break came as a child actor on
the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated
(1989–1991). In 1992, she played Pierce Brosnan's
daughter in a pilot for NBC called Running Wilde, which
featured Brosnan as a reporter for Auto World magazine
whose stories cover his own wild auto adventures, but
the series wasn't picked up and the pilot never aired.
She later played on television in several short-lived
series, such as Fox's Shaky Ground (1992–1993), ABC's
Byrds of Paradise (1994), and McKenna (1994–1995).
Finally, Hewitt became a young star
after landing the role of Sarah Reeves on the popular
Fox Television show Party of Five (1995–1999), joining
the cast during its second season. She continued the
same role in the short-lived Party of Five spin-off,
Time of Your Life (1999). Hewitt was also one of the
producers, but the show was cancelled after only half a
season.
She made her film debut in the independent film Munchie
(1992). Hewitt became a film star after a lead role in
the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).
The film had great box-office appeal (125,000,000 U.S.
dollars worldwide), and Hewitt became one of the most
popular young stars in the USA (together with her
co-stars: Freddie Prinze Jr., Ryan Phillippe, and Sarah
Michelle Gellar). She also played in the sequel I Still
Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), which beat Meet
Joe Black in the box office but wasn't as successful as
the first one. Other notable film roles included the
high-school comedy Can't Hardly Wait (1998) and a
starring role with Sigourney Weaver in the romantic
comedy hit Heartbreakers (2001).
Jennifer Love Hewitt was considered for the role of
Paige Matthews on the WB hit Series Charmed but actress
Rose McGowan was given the role.[citation needed] In
2000, Hewitt appeared in The Audrey Hepburn Story. That
same year, she was the "most popular actress on
television" due to her Q-rating (a measurement of a
celebrity's popularity) of thirty-seven. For that
reason, Nokia chose her to become its spokesperson,
because of her "fresh image", and her being
"a symbol of youthfulness and wholesomeness".
In 2001 she appeared in the music video for the Enrique
Iglesias song, Hero as the singer's love interest.
In 2002, she was paired with Jackie Chan in the action
comedy The Tuxedo, which was a box office hit.
Hewitt wrote I'm Gonna Love You for the movie The
Hunchback of Notre Dame II because, although she was a
well-known singer at the time, her character Madellaine
was the only character who didn't sing in the movie.
The song won an award for Best Song on DVD Awads.
Since September 2005, Hewitt has starred in the
television series Ghost Whisperer. In Australia, Ghost
Whisperer has been popular since its introduction; in
the United States, the show averages 9-11 million
viewers for each new episode.
Hewitt has also auditioned for many roles. She lost the
role of "Juliet" in Romeo + Juliet to Claire
Danes at the last moment. She also had to give up the
role of "Darlene" in Brokedown Palace because
of scheduling conflicts. Hewitt also auditioned for the
role of "Elektra" in Daredevil.
To date, she has released four albums with some success,
most notably in Japan. Her first album was released in
Japan, where she is widely considered a pop star. Her
explanation for her success in Japan is that the
Japanese "love perky music. The poppier the music,
the better.".
Personal life: Jennifer contributes to charity.
She is known as 'godmother' of the Audrey Hepburn
Children's Fund. On a September 21, 2006 appearance on
Late Night with Conan O'Brien, she expressed her desire
to be a spokesperson for Sizzler. Hewitt has been dating
actor Ross McCall since January 2006. She has also dated
singer John Mayer.
Commercials: In 2005, Hewitt appeared in a Hanes
advertising campaign titled "Look who we've got our
Hanes on now". The campaign also featured other
celebrities such as Michael Jordan, Marisa Tomei, Damon
Wayans, Kevin Bacon, Hugh Heffner ,Matthew Perry, and on
Spanish-language advertising, Aracely Arambula, and
Pablo Montero. In 2006, the campaign added Kevin Bacon
and Christina Applegate to their lineup. Hewitt has
appeared in a Don't Mess With Texas commercial. |
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