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Jennifer Love Hewitt was born on February 21, 1979, in Waco, Texas. As a child, she was on Disney’s
Kids Incorporated. In 1992, she released her first album, Love Songs. In 1995, she earned the part of
Sarah on the TV drama Party of Five. Her big break came with the lead in the horror film I Know What
You Did Last Summer in 1997. In 2005, Hewitt debuted on the CBS drama The Ghost Whisperer.
Actress, singer. Born February 21, 1979, in Waco, Texas. The daughter of two medical professionals
who divorced when their daughter was just six months old, Jennifer Love Hewitt is one of those rare
child song-and-dance stars who’s managed to navigate the tricky road to adult success as a film and
television actress. Hewitt—who got her first name from her eight-year-old brother Todd, who chose the
name Jennifer as an homage to his grade school crush—showed an early passion for music. She
started performing at the age of three, when she made her debut as a singer at a livestock fair, not far
from her childhood hometown of Nolanville, Texas. Two years after that performance at the fair,
Hewitt’s mother enrolled her daughter in jazz, ballet, and tap dance classes, which eventually landed
the young performer a spot on the prized Texas Show Team, a cadre of performers who toured
Europe and the former Soviet Union. In 1989, a talent scout recommended that Jennifer and her
mother, Pat, move to Los Angeles so Hewitt could pursue better acting and dancing opportunities. It
turned out to be sound advice. Hewitt quickly found work, appearing in TV commercials for companies
like Mattel Toys and LA Gear, the latter of which brought her on board for a world tour to promote its
sneakers.
That work soon led to a regular part on Disney’s Kids Incorporated, a music driven show that catered
perfectly to Hewitt’s talents. Those same skills were also on full display for the 1991 release of the
Dance! Workout With Barbie video, which featured the young actress. Other credits followed, not all of
them huge successes, including a string of failed television pilots. In 1992, Hewitt stepped up her
profile as a singer—at least overseas—when she released her first album, Love Songs, a saccharinesweet collection of romantic teen ballads. There was plenty of additional acting work, too, including a
co-starring role in the 1993 film, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, with Whoopi Goldberg. In 1995, Hewitt
earned the kind of successful television gig that had previously eluded her, starring as the pretty girlnext-door in the Fox Television drama, Party of Five. Stepping into the role during the program’s
second season, Hewitt soon became a household name, earning nominations from the Kids Choice
Awards and Teen Choice awards, as well as helping the program land a Golden Globe Award for Best
Drama in 1996.
Hewitt tried to cash in on her new celebrity with a second album of songs—this one released to an
American audience. The album performed poorly, and the performer returned to the studio again to
record what would become a 1996 self-titled album. And while it didn’t produce any chart topping hits,
Hewitt’s voice and style earned some praise from skeptical critics. “Her feathery light voice is more
soulful than you’d imagine,” wrote one reviewer. “Depending on your threshold for harmless, whitebread teen pop, this album could be a welcome addition to your collection because, frankly, it makes
you like her even more than her image did in the first place.” Hewitt released her fourth album,
Barenaked in 2002, and followed up with Cool with You: The Platinum Collection, a compilation
released in Asia in 2006. As much as she could, Hewitt also continued to find more acting
opportunities. Film work was a part of the mix, with roles in House Arrest (1996) and Trojan War
(1997). Her big break, though, came the same year as the release of Trojan War, with the lead role in
the surprise scream-fest hit, I Know What You Did Last Summer. Hewitt made the movie execs
millions, and she earned herself big-time Hollywood stardom. While a sequel proved to lack the same
kind of commercial punch, Hewitt scored another hit in 1998 with Can’t Hardly Wait, whose story line
centered on a night at a final high-school party. Hewitt then starred in the unsuccessful Party of Five
spin-off Time of Your Life, which found Hewitt’s character relocating to New York to seek her real
father. The show only earned enough ratings to make it halfway through the 1998-99 television year,
and the actress started making moves to shed her teenage status. She attempted some fairly
ambitious roles starting in 2000, when she starred in the made-for-TV movie, The Audrey Hepburn.