Biography
Of German and Italian descent, she grew up within Killeen, Texas before moving to Los Angeles with her mother Pat at a age of Tenner to pursue two acting & cantabile careers at a guide of talent scouts.

Her number one break come shortly thenceforth as a child actor on the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated (1989-1991). She became a domestic title when landing the role of Sarah Reeves on the popular Fox Television show Party of Five (1995-1999). She continued this role in the short-ephemeral Person of 5 spinoff, Time of Your Life (1999) co-starring Jennifer Garner.

She is mayhap best known for the role of Julie James in the horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998).

Inside more guiding light film roles, she was the centerpiece of the chaotic high school comedy ''Can't Hardly Wait (1998). She starred using Sigourney Weaver in the movie Heartbreakers (2001), which also featured Gene Hackman and Ray Liotta. Possibly further recently she was paired by having Jackie Chan in the action comedy The Tuxedo'' (2002).

Up to now she has freed tetrad albums by owning a bit of profits, virtually all notably outside a United States in places prefer Europe and Japan.

Within 2003 Jennifer (using Bo Derek) visited troops who come recovering from either their 2003 Iraq war injuries at Washington, D.C.'s Bethesda Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She described it when [http://www.thebakersfieldchannel.com/entertainment/2171866/detail.html "an amazing experience"].

She is featured on the handle of the March 2005 issue of Maxim, and on the final issue of the TV Guide.

She stars in the television series Ghost Whisperer on CBS in the U.S. & CTV in Canada. It premiered within September 2005.

From either 1997-1999 she dated Carson Daly and from 1999-2001 she dated Rich Cronin.

Filmography
The Truth About Love (2005) Garfield: The Movie (2004) If Only (2004) The Tuxedo (2002) The Devil and Daniel Webster (2002) Heartbreakers (2001) The Suburbans (1999) ''Can't Hardly Wait (1998) I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) Telling You (1998) I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) Trojan War (1997) House Arrest (1996) Sister Act 2 (1993)

Television
Ghost Whisperer (2005) Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (movie) (2005) Family Guy (2002) (voice)...herself The Audrey Hepburn Story (movie) (2000) Time of Your Life (1999) Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998) Party of Five (1995-1999) Byrds of Paradise (1994) Kids Incorporated (1989-1991)

Discography
Love Songs (1992) released within Japan only Let's Go Bang (1995) Jennifer Love Hewitt (1996) BareNaked'' (2002)