Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress, singer, producer, and director. Hewitt began her career as a child actress and singer, 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 in 1994. She had her breakthrough as Sarah Reeves Merrin 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), a role she reprised in the sequels I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025). Hewitt's other films include the teen comedy Can't Hardly Wait (1998), as Amanda Beckett, as well as Heartbreakers (2001), The Tuxedo (2002), and the two Garfield live-action films (2004–2006). She has starred as Melinda Gordon on the CBS supernatural drama Ghost Whisperer (2005–2010), Riley Parks on the Lifetime drama series The Client List (2012–2013), Special Agent Kate Callahan on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds (2014–2015), and since 2018, Maddie Buckley on the Fox/ABC first-responder procedural 9-1-1. 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' 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.