'''Jennifer Love Hewitt''' (born February 21 1979) is an American actress and singer. She has appeared on the Fox television series ''Party of Five'' and starred in the ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'' films. Hewitt can currently be seen on the CBS television series ''Ghost Whisperer''. As a singer, her single "How Do I Deal" reached twenty-six on the American charts.

Biography

Early life and career

Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas to Herbert Daniel Hewitt and Patricia Mae Shipp (who are of mostly English descent).http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=geolarson2&id=I193314 Her father is a technician and her mother worked as a speech pathologist. Hewitt grew up in Killeen, 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 of whom he was fond 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" (as recorded by Whitney Houston) 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.

After moving to Los Angeles, Hewitt appeared in more than twenty television commercials. Her first break came as a child actor on the Disney Channel variety show ''Kids Incorporated'' (1989–1991). In 1992, she played Pierce Brosnan's daughter in a pilot for NBC called ''Running Wilde'', which featured Brosnan as a reporter for ''Auto World'' magazine whose stories cover his own wild auto adventures, but the series wasn't picked up and the pilot never aired. She later played on television in several short-lived series, such as Fox's ''Shaky Ground'' (1992–1993), ABC's ''Byrds of Paradise'' (1994), and ''McKenna'' (1994–1995). Finally, Hewitt became a young star after landing the role of Sarah Reeves on the popular Fox Television show ''Party of Five'' (1995–1999), joining the cast during its second season. She continued the same role in the short-lived ''Article licensed under GNU Free Documentation License. See the Wikipedia article "Jennifer_Love_Hewitt"