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| Jennifer Love Hewitt (known to friends and family as Love) was born on February 21, 1979 in Waco, Texas to parents Pat andTom Hewitt and was raised in neighboring Killeen. Singing was her first love, as at the age of three she got away from her mom at a dinner club and was found on stage singing "Help Me Make It Through The Night." In the years that followed, Love began dance lessons, which included jazz, tap and ballet. By age nine Love was a member of the Texas Show Team, a dance troupe that toured the USSR and Denmark. A local talent scout spotted Love, and referred her to a Los Angeles based colleague. So the family including her mom and brother Todd packed up and headed for the coast. | |||||||||||||||
| It was here that Love landed her first job which was as a regular as 'Robin' on the series Kids Incorporated. She also found work doing commercials, notably for LA Gear, in which she promoted as a spokesperson on a worldwide tour for the company, and for Mattel toys promoting the Barbie. In 1991 Love was one of several dancers on the video, Dance! Workout With Barbie, in which she sang all of the songs that were on it. In 1992 Love not only had a part in the film Munchie, but also released her first album entitled Love Songs, which was released only in Japan. In the same year Love sang "Please Save Us A World" with her Kids Incorporated co-stars before the UN Assembly and then was appointed as a Youth Ambassador. The song went on to become the theme song for the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Along with this Love also found work in her first televisions series, the short lived Shaky Ground and appeared in failed pilots Running Wilde and Just Family. | |||||||||||||||
| Love landed a co-starring role of 'Heather Lofton' in the made-for-TV 1993 movie Little Miss Millions and also came to the big screen with a minor role in Sister Act2: Back in the Habit. Love returned to television in 1994 with McKenna and played 'Franny Byrd''in the critically acclaimed The Byrds of Paradise. Both turned out to be short-lived shows. Love then devoted her creative energies to her second album entitled Let's Go Bang, where she co-wrote the song "Free To Be A Woman." In 1995, at age 16 Love landed the role of 'Sarah Reeves' in the Fox series Party of Five, a show that was just starting to pick up in the ratings after coming close to being cancelled previous season. The role was originally intended to be a minor recurring role for nine episodes, but after the response from fans Love became a series regular. | |||||||||||||||
| The following year Love appeared as 'Brooke Figler' in the film House Arrest and released her third album, the self-titled, Jennifer Love Hewitt. In 1997 Love played 'Leah' in the film Trojan War, and then appeared in her breakout role, as 'Julie James' in the highly successful horror film, I Know What You Did Last Summer. During this busy schedule Love made time to graduate from Laurel Springs High, which she'd been attending via correspondence since 1993. | |||||||||||||||
| In 1998 Love's career was on a high, and saw the release of the teen comedy Can't Hardly Wait where she played the role of 'Amanda Beckett.' In the same year Love reprised the role of 'Julie James' in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Love also sold a treatment idea for a romantic comedy called Cupid's Love (now called Marry Me Jane) to New Line for $500,000. Another film, the direct-to-video Telling You, where Love had the minor role of 'Deb Friedman' was also released in 1998. Along with this Love did a series of print and television commercials for Neutrogena. In 1999 Love got her own spin-off series from Party of Five, entitled Time of Your Life which follows her character across the country to New York in search of her real father. The independent film The Suburbans was released the same year and saw Love playing the part of record executive 'Cate.' | |||||||||||||||
| The ABC made-for-TV movie The Audrey Hepburn Story was released in 2000, and saw Love playing her idol Audrey Hepburn, as well as executive producing on this bio-epic. 2000 also saw the demise of Time of Your Life after 12 episodes on the Fox network. But, Love remained busy and co-starred in a comedy called Heartbreakers, playing the part of 'Page.' The film also stars Sigourney Weaver, Jason Lee and Gene Hackman, and tells the story of a mother-daughter con artist team. It is due out in February 2001. Love also is the voice of 'Thumbelina' in The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, and the voice of 'Madellaine' in The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2, both of which are due out late in 2000. Love is also expected to make her first film under her own production company - Love Spell Entertainment, later in 2000. On the commercial front, Love has done a series of worldwide advertisements for Nokia phones. Love has now signed on to play the devil in a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, which is called The Devil and Daniel Webster. | |||||||||||||||
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