Jennifer Love Hewitt

She dated actor Ross McCall in 2005 and the duo soon became engaged. However, they called off their engagement, three years after being together. She then began dating Jamie Kennedy, but split with him after a year.

She married actor Brian Hallisay in 2013 and the couple has a daughter.

Jennifer Love Hewitt was born to Patricia Mae and Herbert Daniel Hewitt in Waco, Texas. She has an older brother, Todd Hewitt.

From a very young, she was attracted to music, which led to her inaugural encounter with showbiz at the tender age of three. She performed at ‘The Greatest Love of All’ a livestock show.

By the time she was five, she began taking ballet and tap dancing lessons and was made a member of the Texas Show Team.

She grew up in Nolanville, Central Texas. Her parents split when she was very young and both; she and her brother, were raised under the care of their mother.

When she was ten years old, she won the title of ‘Texas Our little Miss Talent Winner’ and decided that she wanted to pursue a career in acting and singing.

She starred in the teen drama, ‘Party of Five’, which was cancelled after half a season. In 1994, she also appeared in 7 episodes of ‘The Byrds of Paradise’ and in 3 episodes of the series, ‘McKenna’.

In 1996, she released her self-titled album, ‘Jennifer Love Hewitt’. She then catapulted to fame earning her first lead role in the American drama-horror film, ‘I Know What You Did Last summer’, which released in 1997.

The film went on to become so successful, that it spawned a sequel, ‘I Still Know What You Did Last Summer’, in 1998. Same year, she starred in the high-school film, ‘Can’t Hardly Wait’. Around the same time, she was seen once again as Sarah Reeves Martin for the show, ‘Time of Your Life’.

In 2001, establishing herself as a bankable star, she was cast in ‘The Audrey Hepburn Story’ and was also the co-executive producer for the movie. The same year, she also starred in the romantic comedy, ‘Heartbreakers’, which she followed with a voice-over for the animated film, ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame II’, the next year.

She released her fourth and final studio album, ‘BareNaked’, which went on to peak at the no. 37th position on the Billboard 200, in 2002.

In 1997, she was cast in the lead role in the film, ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’. The movie went on to collect $125,586,134 at the box-office and went on to become one of the most commercially popular films of the year. The film became extremely successful and also spawned a lesser-successful sequel, ‘I Still Know What You Did Last Summer’ the next year, in which Hewitt once again repeated the lead role.

She released her fourth studio album, ‘BareNaked’ in 2002. The album was placed at the no.9 position on the Australian Top 100 chart and was also included in the Billboard 200 at no. 37. Two of the singles; ‘BareNaked’ and ‘Can I Go Now’ became hits.

From 2003 to 2005, she played the role of Melinda Gordon in the hit supernatural drama, ‘Ghost Whisperer’ which aired on the CBS Network. As the lead protagonist, she earned rave reviews for her performance. The show became so popular that it spawned ‘webisodes’, reference books, novels and a video game, which released in 2011.