Jennifer Love
Hewitt prefers to be called Love. Her mother named her after her college
friend and room mate whom Love has never met. Her mom had told her friend
(who was gorgeous and really sweet) that if she ever had a little girl,
she would name her Love. Love started performing young. When she was only
three years old, she got away from her mother at a dinner club, and was
found on stage, singing "Help Me Make It Through The Night." Two years
later, Love started taking dance lessons. While still in Texas, Love was
voted a "living doll" in a Texas beauty pageant, and at the age of nine,
joined the Texas Show Team, performing in the U.S.S.R. and Denmark. At
ten, Love was touring the world as a spokesperson for L.A. Gear. Shortly
after, the Hewitt moved to Los Angeles, and Love got her start in commercials,
including more than twenty national commercials for Mattel Toys. After
doing several commercials for the Mattel Toy company (Barbie dolls), Circuit
City, Ross Department Stores, Chex Cereal, and Mrs. Smith's Pies, she landed
her first television series as Robin on "Kids Incorporated" in 1989. On
a 1991 episode, Love sang a song about saving the environment called "Please
Save Us the World." This song became the theme song, which Love sang with
other young celebrities, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Love then put out an album in Japan called "Love Songs" in 1992 which featured
this hit song. From this album, she released a single called "Dancing Queen"
with the song "I'll Find You" on the flipside. Love co-wrote one song called
"90's Kids" and had Debbie Gibson singing backup vocals on a song Debbie
wrote called " Bedtime Stories." Love then continued to pursue her acting
career. She was a series regular in "Shaky Ground," "Byrds of Paradise,"
and " McKenna." These television series didn't last too long on the air.
But her television career didn't end there. She landed the role as Sarah
Reeves on the 2nd season of Fox TV's "Party of Five". She also appeared
in the movies "Munchie," "Little Miss Millions," and " Sister Act 2" which
are all available on videotape, and as one of the dancers in "Dance! Workout
with Barbie" which is also available on videotape. On October 10, 1995,
she released her American debut CD on Atlantic Records called "Let's Go
Bang" (Bang being a type of dance). Her first single is "Couldn't Find
Another Man." Love's 3rd CD came out on September 3rd, 1996, which was
called "Jennifer Love Hewitt", from Atlantic Records. This CD includes
her well-known tracks such as "No Ordinary Love", and "It's Good To Know
That I'm Alive". Love Hewitt plays as Brook Figler in "House Arrest" (came
out on Aug.14th, 1996), which also stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollack,
Jennifer Tilly and Kyle Howard. This is a comedy in which the kids lock
their parents in the basement because they are getting a divorce, having
problems, or in Brooke Figler's (Love's character) case, can't stand her
mother. Also featured in the ending credits of this movie is the song "
It's Good to Know That I'm Alive", from Love's recent CD. Love says that
this is not her first on-screen kiss, although it took them four or five
takes to get it right. Her first on-screen kiss on Byrds of Paradise was
also her first kiss in real life. Love has another movie, which is called
"Trojan War". Love Hewitt plays the character Leah Jones, a very intelligent,
yet very sarcastic, and also very shy young girl. She's the type that always
has an opinion about everything. And Will Friedle plays as Brad Kimble,
a high school kid that is obsessed with this popular, prom queen-type school
girl name Brooke Kingsley (played by Marley Shelton). Its a story of what
happens when Leah falls in love with her best friend Brad, but doesn't
know how to tell him, knowing probably that he's still thinking about Brooke.
In one night, their unusual love triangle, creates havoc among themselves,
and yet comes to a funny, romantic conclusion. Off screen, they became
very close friends! "We were inseparable on the set," Love says about Will.
"It was really fun.". "Trojan War" is now out on video since Dec.16th,
1997. Love Hewitt's suspense thriller called "I Know What You Did Last
Summer", is an adaption of Lois Duncan's thriller about four teenagers
trying to cover up a hit-and-run. Love stars as Julie, a high school senior
who
has just been accepted into Smith
College, and is looking forwards to leaving her small town. Also starring
with Love, is Ryan Phillippe, from the movie "White Squall", as Barry Cox.
Ryan plays a local college boy who is dating one of Julie's friends. And
Sarah Michelle Gellar, from the WB's "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer", as Helen
Rivers. Sarah's character is known as the town's Channel Five Golden Girl.
Storyline goes as these four teens were coming home from celebrating what
was left of there summer, til they hit a fisherman in the road. Believing
that he's dead, they put his body at the river, and try to keep it a secret
among themselves. They then go on with their lives, as if nothing happens.
Until almost 1 year later, they start receiving letters saying, "I know
what you did last summer". And now, their lives are in danger, as a man
with a hook, comes after them, trying to kill them all. This movie was
released at theaters on Oct. 17th, 1997. Love Hewitt is starring in a new
independent film entitled "Telling You". The filming was recently completed
in Los Angeles. The film also stars Rick Rossovich ("Top Gun", "Roxanne",
"The Terminator", "ER", "Touched by an Angel") Richard Libertini ("Fletch",
"Awakenings", "Nell"), Matt Lillard ("Serial Mom", "Mad Love"), and Peter
Facinelli. "Telling You" is about a young man who is troubled by an old
mistake he made in high school, by cheating on his girlfriend. When he
meets his ex-girlfriend again several years later, he comes to suspect
that the mistake he made was perhaps the reason why his life has turned
out to be so uninspired. So he wants to "tell her" how his mistake has
affected his life. (Release date is set for sometime in Spring of 1998).
Love is once again working on another movie project called "The Party".
More info to come, pretty soon (No release date yet).
Love participated in the Nickelodeon Big Help Telethon
in which she joined other young celebrities to get kids around the nation
to pledge volunteer hours to help their community. It was a big success.
She also did a promotional gig for the Cartoon Network along with Lacey
Chabert, met the First Lady Hillary Clinton when she performed at a benefit
concert in Boston, and took part in the Sail with the Stars cruise to Alaska
this summer to benefit the Starlight Foundation. She also made TV guest
appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (A few times)" MTV's "Singled
Out","Rock 'n' Jock B Ball Jam 96", "Loveline", & "Live"
"Live with Regis & Kathie Lee"
NBC's "Later" FOX's "Mad TV" & "Home Team w/ Terry Bradshaw" "The Rosie
O'Donnell Show" "E's Party of 5 (behind the scenes)" She also hosted a
couple of "Fox's Halloween Bash" (one from 1995, and one
from 1996), hosted a few MTV videos, as well as "True Tales of a Teen Trauma"
& "True Tales of a Teen Romance", hosted a couple of ABC specials "A
Senior Prom" (Jul. 2nd, 1997), and "Christmas Miracles" (Dec. 13th, 1997).
Live appearances she attended were the following: Universal Studios Hollywood
(Feb. 17th 1996), Sears/Seventeen Peak Performance (in several Sear stores
throughout the states, during the summer of 96'), Hard Rock Cafe (at Universal
Studios on Nov. 12th, 1996), Tampa, Florida (Feb.7th, 1997), and in King
of Prussia, Pennsylvania (Aug. 24th, 1997). There
are some more interesting facts about Love. Her favorite TV show is Friends.
She loves Johnny Depp (having seen "Don Juan DeMarco" many times) and would
love to work with Winona Ryder. She likes to write poetry, paint porcelain,
and collect angels. Her favorite things are her laptop computer, her cat
Haylie, and her kitten Don Juan. Off the set of Party of Five, she has
lots of fun with Scott Wolf, as well as the other cast members, and is
currently dating Will Friedle from "Boy Meets World". And if given the
choice between acting and singing, she would choose to sing. How is it
that Love always seems to make the right decisions in her life? Its simple,
she says, "Always follow your heart.” and THATS the Bottom line Cause Stone Cold Says so!!
Stone Cold's Jennifer
Love Hewitt Biography