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.

Look for much more from this multi-talented performer. At 21, her career is a decade old, but only beginning.