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Jennifer Love Hewitt is also getting under our skin (in a good way) in Ghost Whisperer

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt

The actress changed up her look after a lengthy appointmentJennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress, producer, television director and former singer-songwriter. Hewitt began her acting career as a child by appearing in television commercials and the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated. She rose to fame in teenage popular culture in her roles in the Fox series Party of Five as Sarah Reeves Merrin, and films I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel as Julie James. She starred on the hit CBS television program Ghost Whisperer as Melinda Gordon, a young woman who can communicate with ghosts, for which she won a Saturn Award in 2007 and 2008 for Best Actress on Television.[1] She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her television movie The Client List.[2] Hewitt has served as a producer on some of her film and television projects.[3]

As a singer, Hewitt's most successful single on the Billboard Hot 100 is the 1999 release "How Do I Deal", which peaked at No. 59.[4] She has contributed music to the promotion or soundtracks of acting projects.[5]Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas,[6] and is the daughter of Patricia Mae (née Shipp), a speech-language pathologist, and Herbert Daniel Hewitt, a medical technician.[7] Hewitt grew up in Nolanville, Texas.[8] Hewitt received her middle name after her mother promised her college friend (named "Love") that if she had a daughter, she would name her after her.[9] Her older brother, Todd Hewitt, chose the name "Jennifer" as a homage to a crush he had at the time she was born.[8] After the divorce of her parents, Hewitt and her brother were brought up by her mother.[10]

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.[11] 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".[12] By the time she was five, Hewitt already had tap dancing and ballet in her portfolio.[13] At nine, she became a member of the Texas Show Team (which also toured in the Soviet Union).[14] At the age of ten, at the suggestion of talent scouts and after gaining the title of "Texas Our Little Miss Talent Winner",[15] she moved to Los Angeles with her mother to pursue a career in both acting and singing.[10] In Los Angeles, Hewitt attended Lincoln High School where her classmates included Jonathan Neville, who became a talent scout and recommended Hewitt for her role in Party of Five.After moving to Los Angeles, Hewitt appeared in more than twenty television commercials, including some for Mattel toys.[16] Her first break came as a child actor on the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated (1989–1991),[17] where she was credited as "Love Hewitt". She later appeared in the live action video short Dance! Workout with Barbie (1992), released by Buena Vista.[18]

She played Pierce Brosnan's daughter in a pilot for NBC called Running Wilde (1993),[19] which featured Brosnan as a reporter for Auto World magazine whose stories cover his own wild auto adventures. However, the series was not picked up and the pilot never aired.[20] Hewitt later had roles in several short-lived television series, such as Fox's Shaky Ground (1992–1993),[21] ABC's The Byrds of Paradise (1994),[22] and McKenna (1994–1995),[23] and finally became a young star after landing the role of Sarah Reeves Merrin on the popular Fox show Party of Five (1995–1999).[24] She assumed the role of Sarah after joining that show during its second season and continued it on the short-lived Party of Five spin-off, Time of Your Life (1999), which she also co-produced.[25] The show was cancelled after half a season.[26]

Hewitt's first feature film role was in the independent film Munchie (1992).[27] A year later, she achieved her first starring film role in Little Miss Millions (1993).[28] She appeared as a choir member in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993).[29] Hewitt became a film star after a lead role in the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997),[30] which enjoyed great box office success ($125,000,000 USD).[31] Hewitt and her co-stars gained popular exposure from the film. She appeared in the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), which, though not as successful as the first film, took in more money on its opening weekend.[32] She starred in the high-school comedy Can't Hardly Wait (1998).[33Hewitt starred in The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000).[34] That same year, she was the "most popular actress on television" due to her Q-rating (a measurement of a celebrity's popularity) of 37.[35] For that reason, because of her "fresh image," and because of her being "a symbol of youthfulness and wholesomeness", Nokia chose her to become its spokesperson.[36]

She starred alongside Sigourney Weaver in the romantic comedy Heartbreakers (2001).[37] She appeared in The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002) as Madellaine, the main protagonist's love interest.[38] Hewitt wrote and performed "I'm Gonna Love You" for the film[39] and the song won "Best Original Song" at the DVD Premiere Awards.[40] She starred alongside Jackie Chan in The Tuxedo (2002),[41] which received negative reviews from critics but was a box office success.[42] Hewitt appeared in If Only (2004) and co-wrote and performed "Love Will Show You Everything" and "Take My Heart Back" for the film's soundtrack.[43] She starred in Garfield (2004),[44] which became her highest-grossing film to date ($200,804,534 USD)[45] and reprised her role for the sequel, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006),[46] which, though not performing as well as its predecessor, achieved a strong box office gross.[47]

Hewitt starred in the popular television series Ghost Whisperer (2005–2010),[48] which ran on CBS for five seasons before being canceled by the network in May, 2010.[49] She reunited with her I Know What You Did Last Summer co-star, Freddie Prinze Jr., in Delgo (2008).[50] The film was a massive box office bomb ($694,782 USD domestically).[51] After a two-year absence from feature films, Hewitt led the independent drama Café (2010) with her then-boyfriend Jamie Kennedy.[52] She starred in the Lifetime film The Client List (2010),[53] for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.[54] The next year, Hewitt starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame film The Lost Valentine (2011).[55]

Hewitt will direct the film Wait Till Helen Comes (2012) based on the novel by Mary Downing Hahn.[56] This will be Hewitt's feature film directorial debut (she previously directed three episodes of Ghost Whisperer).[57] She is also set star alongside Ivan Sergei and Joel David Moore in the independent comedy Jewtopia (2012)[58] and will star in the television series The Client List (2012).[59]Jennifer Love Hewitt got her first name from her older brother Todd Daniel Hewitt (b. November 8, 1970), who picked the name after a little blonde girl he then had a crush on. Her mother selected her middle name, Love, which she goes by offstage from her best friend at college. Her mother, Pat, is a speech pathologist and her father.Every woman has that wardrobe standby they know they will look great in no matter what.

For Jennifer Love Hewitt, it's her vast array of Herve Leger bandage dresses.

The style hugs the actress' famous figure in all the right places and she proudly showed off her curves at the Macy's Passport Glamorama event in LA last night.

Jennifer Love Hewitt