Jennifer Love Hewitt was born on February 21 1979.
She is an American actress, producer, and singer.
Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, and grew up in
Killeen, Texas. She is the daughter of Herbert
Daniel Hewitt and Patricia Mae Shipp (who are of
mostly English descent). Her parents separated when
she was only six months old, and was brought up by
her mother. At the age of three she sang at a
livestock show; at nine she became a member of the
Texas Show Team (which also toured in the Soviet
Union). At the suggestion of talent scouts, she
moved to Los Angeles, California, with her mother at
the age of ten, to pursue a career in both acting
and singing.
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 (1989–91). She later played
on television in several short-lived series, like
Fox's Shaky Ground (1992–93), ABC's Byrds of
Paradise (1994) and McKenna (1994–95). Finally,
Hewitt became a young star after landing the role of
Sarah Reeves on the popular Fox Television show
Party of Five (1995–99). She joined the cast during
its second season. She continued the same role of
Sarah Reeves in the short-lived Party of Five
spinoff, 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 movie 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). Other notable film roles
included the high-school comedy Can't Hardly Wait
(1998). She starred with Sigourney Weaver in the
romantic comedy Heartbreakers (2001), which also
featured Gene Hackman, Jason Lee and Ray Liotta. In
2002, she was paired with Jackie Chan in the action
comedy The Tuxedo. Since September 2005 Hewitt has
starred as Melinda Gordon in the television series
Ghost Whisperer.
Hewitt is not universally regarded as a serious
actor; for example, the review of Heartbreakers in
Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2002 includes
the comment: "The cast seems to be having a good
time; wonderful performance by Hewitt's breasts."
To date she has released four albums with some
success, most notably outside the United States in
regions such as Europe and Japan.
|
MORE SITES | ALL STARS CENTRAL
|
