Jennifer Love Hewitt

About Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt is an American actress, singer, producer and director. Hewitt began her career as a child, appearing in national television commercials before joining the cast of the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated (1989–1991), which won her a Young Artist Award. She had her breakthrough on the Fox teen drama Party of Five (1995–1999) and rose to fame as a teen star and scream queen for her role as Julie James in the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and two of its three sequels.

Hewitt's other films include the comedies Can't Hardly Wait (1998), Heartbreakers (2001), The Tuxedo (2002), and the two Garfield live-action films (2004–2006). She portrayed Melinda Gordon on the CBS supernatural drama Ghost Whisperer (2005–2010), and starred on the Lifetime drama series The Client List (2012–2013), the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds (2014–2015), and the Fox/ABC first-responder procedural 9-1-1 (2018–present). She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for The Client List pilot film (2010).

In music, Hewitt has released four studio albums. After her debut album, Love Songs (1992), was released at age 12 in Japan, she recorded Let's Go Bang (1995), Jennifer Love Hewitt (1996) and BareNaked (2002), the lattermost of which became her first album to chart in the United States, peaking at number 37 on the Billboard 200 chart. Her most successful single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart was the 1999 release "How Do I Deal", which peaked at number 59.

In addition to music and acting, Hewitt has served as a producer on some of her film and television projects. She appeared on Forbes's annual Celebrity 100 list in 2008 and her 2010 dating-advice book The Day I Shot Cupid (2010), topped The New York Times Best Seller list. Labeled a sex symbol, she has appeared in several magazines' lists of the world's most beautiful women.

Between the 1990s and the 2000s, Hewitt dated several high-profile figures, including Joey Lawrence, Will Friedle, Carson Daly, Rich Cronin, Patrick Wilson, John Mayer and Jamie Kennedy. In 2005, Hewitt began dating Scottish actor Ross McCall after he made an appearance on Ghost Whisperer. They became engaged in November 2007, while vacationing in Hawaii. People magazine reported that Hewitt called off their engagement in late 2008.

In March 2012, Hewitt started dating her co-star on The Client List, Brian Hallisay. In June 2013, Hewitt announced that she was engaged and expecting her first child with Hallisay. On November 20, 2013, Hewitt and Hallisay married. Their daughter was born a few days later on November 26. In June 2015, the couple had a boy. In August 2021, Hewitt and Hallisay welcomed their third child.