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Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress and
singer-songwriter. She is well-known for her television and film roles in the
Fox television series Party of Five, as Sarah Reeves, and also starred in I Know
What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, as Julie James. Hewitt can currently be
seen on the CBS television series Ghost Whisperer, as Melinda Gordon, a young
newlywed who communicates with the dead.
Early life and career
Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, to Herbert Daniel Hewitt and Patricia Mae Shipp.
Her father is a technician and her mother worked as a speech-language
pathologist. Hewitt grew up in Nolanville, Texas. After the divorce of her
parents, Hewitt and her only sibling, Todd Hewitt, were brought up by her
mother. Her first name was given to her by her brother, after a girl he was fond
of as a youngster, while her middle name, "Love", was given to her by her mother
after her best friend in college.
As a young girl, Hewitt was attracted to music which led to her first encounters
with the entertainment industry. At the age of three, she sang "The Greatest
Love of All" at a livestock show. Just a year after that, at a restaurant-dance
hall, she entertained an audience with her version of "Help Me Make It Through
the Night". By the time she was five, Hewitt already had tap dancing and ballet
in her portfolio. At nine, she became a member of the Texas Show Team (which
also toured in the Soviet Union). At the age of ten, at the suggestion of talent
scouts, she moved to Los Angeles, California, with her mother to pursue a career
in both acting and singing.
