Jennifer Love Hewitt was born on February 21,1979 and is an American actress and singer.
48 Facts About Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Jennifer Love Hewitt had her breakthrough as Sarah Reeves Merrin on the Fox teen drama Party of Five and rose to fame as a teen star for her role as Julie James in the horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and its 1998 sequel, as well as her role as Amanda Beckett in the teen comedy film Can't Hardly Wait.
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In music, Jennifer Love Hewitt has released four studio albums to date.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt has appeared in several magazines' lists of the world's most beautiful women.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas to Patricia Mae, a speech-language pathologist, and Herbert Daniel Jennifer Love Hewitt, a medical technician.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt grew up in Nolanville in Central Texas, and has close kinship ties in parts of Arkansas.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt 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 was not picked up and the pilot never aired.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt later had roles in several short-lived television series, such as Fox's Shaky Ground, ABC's The Byrds of Paradise, and McKenna.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt rose to teen idol status after landing the role of Sarah Reeves Merrin on the popular Fox show Party of Five.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt became a film star with the release of the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer, in which she starred opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze, Jr, portraying Julie James, the final girl.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt was cast in the role based on her "ability to project vulnerability," which the producers, director Jim Gillespie, and writer Kevin Williamson unanimously agreed upon.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt appeared in the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, which, though not as successful as the first film, took in more money on its opening weekend.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt starred as Amanda Beckett, the most popular girl in school and the senior class prom queen, in the teen comedy Can't Hardly Wait.
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Critic James Berardinelli asserted that Jennifer Love Hewitt was "so likable that it's hard not to have at least a minor rooting interest" in her character, and with a US$25.6 million gross at the North American domestic box office, the film emerged as a moderate commercial success.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt had been recommended for the role by director Steven Robman, who had previously directed her in Party of Five.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt starred alongside Sigourney Weaver in the romantic comedy Heartbreakers, playing a mother-daughter team setting up an elaborate con to swindle wealthy men out of their money.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt starred as a genius scientist with aspirations of field work, alongside Jackie Chan, in the action comedy The Tuxedo.
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Robert Koehler of Variety noted that Jennifer Love Hewitt "has displayed a Chan-like sweetness herself in past roles" and was disappointed that her character is "a haggling, high-strung shrew who's instantly repellent" rather than an amusing sidekick as Chan has had in other Hollywood films.
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In 2004, Hewitt starred as a musician in the romantic fantasy drama If Only, the love interest of Ebenezer Scrooge in the television film A Christmas Carol, and Dr Liz Wilson in the live-action comedy Garfield.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt portrayed Melinda Gordon, a woman with the ability to see and communicate with ghosts, on the CBS television series Ghost Whisperer, which ran on CBS for five seasons and 107 episodes, from September 23,2005, to May 21,2010.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt served as a producer and directed three episodes, including the 100th episode.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt reprised her role as Dr Liz Wilson for Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, which, though it did not perform as well as its predecessor, achieved a strong box office gross.
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In 2010, Jennifer Love Hewitt portrayed a good-hearted barista in the independent drama Cafe, and a struggling prostitute in the Lifetime film The Client List.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt starred as a journalist, opposite Betty White, in the Hallmark Hall of Fame film The Lost Valentine.
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In 2012, Hewitt starred as the love interest of a gentile pretending to be Jewish, alongside Ivan Sergei and Joel David Moore in the independent comedy Jewtopia, and played an erotic massagist in the television series The Client List.
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Between 2014 and 2015, Jennifer Love Hewitt played the regular role of Kate Callahan, an undercover agent who joins the BAU, in the tenth season of Criminal Minds.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt left the series at the end of the season due to her second pregnancy, and decided to take a career hiatus for the next three years.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt was one of the back-up singers in Martika's number-one single, "Toy Soldiers".
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The album was released exclusively in Japan, where Jennifer Love Hewitt became a pop star.
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The albums, along with their singles, failed to chart and Atlantic dropped Jennifer Love Hewitt, who did not return to the music scene for three years.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt recorded the single "How Do I Deal" for the I Still Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack, which became her first charting single, climbing to No 59 on the Hot 100 and No 36 on the Top 40 Mainstream.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt recorded a cover of the Gloria Gaynor song "I Will Survive", which is featured briefly in the film.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt appeared in the LFO video for "Girl on TV", a song which band member Rich Cronin band wrote for her while the two were dating.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt appeared in the music video for the Enrique Iglesias song, "Hero", as the singer's love interest.
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In 2002, Jennifer Love Hewitt signed to Jive Records and recorded her fourth studio album, BareNaked, with singer, songwriter, and producer Meredith Brooks.
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Since 2004, Jennifer Love Hewitt has remained mostly inactive in the music industry, but she released the compilation albums Cool with You: The Platinum Collection in Asia and Hey Everybody in Brazil.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt wrote a book titled The Day I Shot Cupid, in which she speaks of her experiences with love and dating.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt has since been credited for the popularization of this trend.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt has appeared in several magazines' lists of the world's most beautiful women.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt has ranked 32nd, 20th, 35th, 20th, 6th, and 35th in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women in 2005,2008,2010,2012,2013, and 2014 respectively.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt was identified as the "number one reader choice" on the November 1999 and May 2009 covers of Maxim.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt graced the February 1997 cover of Seventeen, and in subsequent years, the list went on to include Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, GQ, CosmoGirl, Shape, Health, Maxim, FHM, Vanidades and Jane.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt has appeared in numerous print advertisements and commercials for brands such as Victoria Golf, Mrs Smith, Colonial's Iron Kids Bread, Levi's, Barbie, LA Gear, Chex, Proactiv, Hanes, Neutrogena, Nokia, Jansport and America's Dairy Producers.
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Between the 1990s and the 2000s, Jennifer Love Hewitt dated several high-profile figures, including Joey Lawrence, Will Friedle, Carson Daly, Rich Cronin, Patrick Wilson, John Mayer and Jamie Kennedy.
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In 2005, Jennifer Love Hewitt began dating Scottish actor Ross McCall after he made an appearance on Ghost Whisperer.
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People magazine reported that Jennifer Love Hewitt called off their engagement in late 2008.
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In June 2013, Jennifer Love Hewitt announced that she was engaged and expecting her first child with co-star, Brian Hallisay.
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In 2002, at the Grammy Awards, Diana Napolis, a conspiracy theorist and former social worker, "verbally confront[ed]" Jennifer Love Hewitt and attempted to pose as a friend of hers in order to enter the premiere of The Tuxedo; she was then arrested for stalking and uttering death threats against Jennifer Love Hewitt and Steven Spielberg.