Jennifer Lopez

Lopez married Cuban actor OjaniNoa, in February 1997 which lasted less than a year and the couple divorced in January 1998.

On September 29, 2001, she married actor and choreographer Cris Judd and filed for divorce in June 2002.

In 2002, she had started dating actor Ben Affleck and they got engaged in November of that year. They parted ways in January 2004.

Jennifer is the second of the three children born to Guadalupe Rodriguez and David Lopez. She was five when her parents sent her to singing and dancing classes and when she grew up, she was enrolled in the Preston High School.

In the final year of high school, she sought several small film projects and landed herself a role in a low-budget film ‘My Little Lady’ in 1986. She went to the ‘Baruch College’ but later dropped out, with the dream of becoming a movie star.

Her parents, however, did not approve of the career she chose for herself. This caused her to move out of her family and live separately in Manhattan.

After a brief period of work as dancer and actor in some stage musicals, she won a national competition in 1990 and earned a role as one of the ‘Fly Girls’ in the Fox comedy series ‘In Living Color’.

She appeared in some other television series, before debuting in Hollywood with the film ‘My Family’ in 1995. The film enjoyed reasonable commercial and critical success. Her breakthrough film came in 1997, in which she played the title role was ‘Selena’, biopic of the singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, who died very young.

The same year she played one of the lead roles in the popular movies ‘Anaconda’ and ‘Blood and Wine’. She also starred in the crime film ‘Out of Sight’ in 1998, opposite Hollywood star George Clooney.

In 1999, she made her debut in music with the album ‘On the 6’, from which ‘If You Had My Love’ became a huge success.

Her second big hit came in 2000 with the single ‘Waiting for Tonight’ and the same year, she starred in two films ‘The Cell’ and ‘Enough’.

Her single ‘If You Had My Love’, from her debut album ‘On the 6’ reached no. 1 on the Billboard 100 and was regarded as one of the most ‘infectious singles’ released that year.

Another song from the same album ‘Waiting for Tonight’ became hugely popular and is considered her best single till date. It reached number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100 and also earned her a Grammy nomination.

The film ‘Selena’ in which she portrayed the title character, received amazing critical reviews. Made with a budget of $20 million, the film grossed $35 million at the box-office.