Education
Her classmate Jonathan Neville became a talent scout and recommended Hewitt for her role in Party of Five.
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Her classmate Jonathan Neville became a talent scout and recommended Hewitt for her role in Party of Five.
At the age of three, she sang "The Greatest Love of All" at a livestock show. At nine, she became a member of the Texas Show Team (which also toured in the Soviet Union). At age ten after gaining the title of "Texas Our Little Miss Talent Winner", she moved to Los Angeles with her mother and appeared in more than twenty television commercials, including some for Mattel toys. Her first break came as a child actor on the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated (1989–1991). Jennifer Love Hewitt became a young star after landing the role of Sarah Reeves Merrin on the popular Fox show Party of Five (1995–1999). Hewitt's first feature film role was in the independent film Munchie (1992).A year later, she achieved her first starring film role in Little Miss Millions (1993). Hewitt became a film star after a lead role in the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), which enjoyed great box office success. In 2000 Hewitt starred in The Audrey Hepburn Story. In 2001 she starred alongside Sigourney Weaver in the romantic comedy Heartbreakers. She did voice work in the animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002) Hewitt wrote and performed "I'm Gonna Love You" for the film; the song won "Best Original Song" at the DVD Premiere Awards. Hewitt appeared in If Only (2004) and co-wrote and performed "Love Will Show You Everything" and "Take My Heart Back" for the film's soundtrack. She starred in Garfield (2004), which became her highest-grossing film to date. and She reprised her role for the sequel, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006). Hewitt starred in the television series Ghost Whisperer (2005–2010). In 2008 she starred in Delgo.The film was a massive box office bomb. After a two-year absence from feature films, Hewitt led the independent drama Café (2010) with her then-boyfriend Jamie Kennedy. She starred in the Lifetime film The Client List (2010), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. The next year, Hewitt starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame film The Lost Valentine (2011). She also starred alongside Ivan Sergei and Joel David Moore in the independent comedy Jewtopia (2012). As of 2012, she currently stars in the television series The Client List.
In November 2009, Hewitt made a foray into comic books. Writer Scott Lobdell scripted the 5-issue anthology, Jennifer Love Hewitt's Music Box (2009–2010), based on Hewitt's ideas. She wrote a book titled The Day I Shot Cupid (2010). The book became a New York Times Bestseller the week of its release.
Jennifer has released four albums. The album Love Songs (1992) was released exclusively in Japan, where Hewitt became a pop star. The first single, "BareNaked" (2002), became her biggest radio hit to date. Since 2004, Hewitt has remained inactive in the music industry, but the compilation album Cool with You: The Platinum Collection (2006) was released in Asia. Another compilation, Hey Everybody (2007), was released in Brazil.
