Jennifer Love Hewitt is an American actress, producer, director, author, singer and songwriter. Hewitt began her acting career as a child by appearing in television commercials and the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated. She rose to fame starring on the Fox teendrama Party of Five . She later starred in the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer and its 1998 sequel.
Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, to Patricia Mae , a speechlanguage pathologist, and Herbert Daniel Hewitt, a medical technician. Hewitt grew up in Nolanville, in Central Texas, and has close kinship ties in parts of Arkansas. After their parents divorced, Hewitt and her older brother Todd were raised by their mother. Patricia Mae Hewitt died on June 12, 2012, aged 67, following a battle with cancer.
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