| Biography:
Hollywood-style girl-next-door good looks and
talents for singing, dancing, acting, songwriting, and, lately,
scriptwriting and producing, have kept ambitious Jennifer Love Hewitt
working hard in show business since the age of ten.
Her scream teen queen scene popularity began with I Know What You Did Last
Summer (1997), and was cinched with the sequel I Still Know What You Did
Last Summer (1998), but it was as a dancer and singer that she got her
professional career start (previously, the Waco-born youngster had
entertained at livestock shows and toured with the Texas Show Team) in 1989
as Robin in the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated. Children's exercise
video Dance! Workout With Barbie (1991) followed, with Hewitt on the floor
amongst the dancer-cisers, and on the soundtrack vocals.
A debut CD entitled Love Songs (released only in Japan) and Hewitt's first
movie, Moody Munchie were released in 1992. That year, as well, she joined
the cast of her first TV network series, Shaky Ground.
1993 brought Hewitt her first starring role (in Little Miss Millions) and a
“rebellious teen” part in her first feature film, Sister Act 2: Back in the
Habit.
A couple of TV series daughter roles in The Byrds of Paradise (1994), and
McKenna (1994) followed. After the release of her second CD Let's Go Bang
(in the U.S. by Atlantic) -- a collection that featured the 16-year-old's
first co-written song, Free To Be A Woman -- Hewitt landed the role of the
brainy girlfriend, Sarah, in Party of Five and successfully turned a minor
recurring character into a series regular.
Hewitt's third CD, Jennifer Love Hewitt was released in 1996, and her film
career got underway with House Arrest (1996), Trojan War (direct-to-video -
1997), The Senior Prom (TV documentary - 1997), the huge horror hit I Know
What You Did Last Summer (1997), Telling You (1998), Can't Hardly Wait
(1998), hit sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), Audrey
Hepburn (TV biography - 1999), and The Suburbans (1999). A Party of Five TV
series spin-off, Time of Your Life, debuted in the fall of 1999 with Hewitt
as actor/producer. The upcoming film, Mary Me Jane (a.k.a. Cupid’s Love),
was co-written and produced by Hewitt, (who will play Jane) and no less than
five more films — Resident Evil, Girl In The Curl, Trust Me, Bunny and
Breakers — are in the works for 2000 release dates. |