I love her: Jennifer Love Hewitt
ennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress, producer, author, television director and 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.Hewitt starred on the hit CBS television program Ghost Whisperer as Melinda Gordon, for which she won a Saturn Award in 2007 and 2008 for Best Actress on Television. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her television movie The Client List. In addition to acting, she has served as a producer on some of her film and television projects. As a singer, Hewitt has been signed by Atlantic Records and Jive Records, and is primarily known for her recordings in the pop genre. Her most successful single on the Billboard Hot 100 is the 1999 release “How Do I Deal”, which peaked at No. 59. She has also contributed music to the promotion or soundtracks of acting projects. She was identified as the “#1 reader choice” on the November 1999 and May 2009 covers of Maxim.TV Guide named her the sexiest woman on television in 2008.As of 2012 she is a recurring star on Hot in Cleveland and leads the Lifetime television series The Client List.
After her goody-goody role in Party of Five, Jennifer Love Hewitt proved she could play up the sexiness factor in Can’t Hardly Wait, Heartbreakers, and Enrique Iglesias’ “Hero” video And have you seen the cover of her album Barenaked? Let’s just say it’s an appropriate title.Jennifer Love Hewitt’s work on Ghost Whisperer as a communicator with the dead also gives us chills… oh Jen!Jennifer Love Hewitt is very attractive, but we can’t help but think of her as Miss Goody Two Shoes instead of a bad girl. But her role in Heartbreakers and her steamy appearance opposite Enrique Iglesias in his “Hero” video did show us another side of Love… a side we adore. She also ranked No. 53 on AskMen.com’s Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2006, No. 91 in 2007 and No. 76 in 2008, and appeared in every year of FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women Of The World.
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After moving to Los Angeles, Hewitt appeared in more than twenty television commercials, including some for Mattel toys. Her first break came as a child actor on the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated (1989–1991), 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. She played Pierce Brosnan’s daughter in a pilot for NBC called Running Wilde (1993), 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. Hewitt later had roles in several short-lived television series, such as Fox’s Shaky Ground (1992–1993), ABC’s The Byrds of Paradise (1994), and McKenna (1994–1995), and finally became a young star after landing the role of Sarah Reeves Merrin on the popular Fox show Party of Five (1995–1999). 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. The show was cancelled after half a season. Hewitt’s first feature film role was in the independent film Munchie (1992). A year later, she achieved her first starring film role in Little Miss Millions (1993). She appeared as a choir member in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993). Hewitt became a film star after a lead role in the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), which enjoyed great box office success ($125,000,000 USD).
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. She starred in the high-school comedy Can’t Hardly Wait (1998). Hewitt starred in The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000). 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. Noting her “Q-rating,” Nokia chose her to become its spokesperson.She starred alongside Sigourney Weaver in the romantic comedy Heartbreakers (2001) and did voiceover work in the animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002) as Madellaine, the main protagonist’s love interest. Hewitt wrote and performed “I’m Gonna Love You” for the film; the song won “Best Original Song” at the DVD Premiere Awards. She starred alongside Jackie Chan in The Tuxedo (2002), which received negative reviews from critics but was a box office success. 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. She starred in Garfield (2004), which became her highest-grossing film to date ($200,804,534 USD). She reprised her role for the sequel, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006), which, though it did not perform as well as its predecessor, achieved a strong box office gross. Hewitt starred in the television series Ghost Whisperer (2005–2010), which ran on CBS for five seasons before being canceled by the network in May, 2010. She reunited with her I Know What You Did Last Summer co-star, Freddie Prinze Jr., in Delgo; but when released in 2008, the film was a massive box office bomb, taking in only $694,782 USD domestically. The film’s failure is believed by whom? to have led Hewitt to take a leave of absence from feature films, which lasted for two years. In 2008, Hewitt was seen in the film Tropic Thunder at the Oscar Awards; sitting by actor Jay Baruchel who played the role of Kevin Sandusky. She was seen in a red dress receiving a kiss on the cheek from Baruchel’s character on the set.Hewitt ended her two-year absence from feature films by taking a lead role in the independent drama Café (2010) with her then-boyfriend Jamie Kennedy. She starred in the Lifetime film The Client List (2010), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. The next year, Hewitt starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame film The Lost Valentine (2011). In 2011, Hewitt was announced to direct the film Wait Till Helen Comes (based on the novel by Mary Downing Hahn). She had previously directed three episodes of Ghost Whisperer, and this would be her feature film directorial debut. Production on the film was slated to begin in the summer of 2011, but no further announcements about the film have been made as of late April 2013. She also starred alongside Ivan Sergei and Joel David Moore in the independent comedy Jewtopia (2012).As of 2012, Hewitt was starring in the television series The Client List (2012).
In 2005, Jennifer Love Hewitt was cast as Melinda Gordon in TV’s Ghost Whisperer, and her star continued to climb as in 2007 Jennifer Love Hewitt was ranked on FHM’s Sexiest Women in the World list for the 11th time.Also of note in 2007, Jennifer Love Hewitt became engaged to her long-time boyfriend Ross McCall while on vacation in Hawaii.In 2008, she was cast in the animated film Delgo, and signed on to star in She Had Brains, a Body, and the Ability to Make Men Love Her. Jennifer Love Hewitt also ranked as No. 76 on AskMen.com’s 2008 Top 99 list, proving that she’s still got the goods — and plenty of them.
