Jennifer Love Hewitt portrays “Melinda Gordon” on CBS' hit drama series, “Ghost Whisperer.” She plays a young newlywed who delivers messages from the dead to the living. She most recently appeared in Twentieth Century Fox's hit live action/CGI features, “Garfield ,” and “Garfield 2: A Tale of Two Kitties.” She was also recently seen starring in two independent features, “The Truth About Love ,” and “If Only,” which she produced with her production company Love Spell Entertainment.
She also starred in the DreamWorks action/comedy “The Tuxedo” opposite Jackie Chan as an intelligence agent who takes on a malevolent corporate mogul, and in MGM's “Heartbreakers,” with Sigourney Weaver, Gene Hackman and Ray Liotta.
Hewitt received critical acclaim as the title role in the ABC Original Movie “The Audrey Hepburn Story,” based on the life of the Academy Award-winning actress.
She is also known to television audiences as “Sarah Reeves” from the award-winning drama series “Party of Five.”
Her career has been linked to box-office success with such films as “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” for which she won a 1998 Blockbuster Entertainment Award. She also starred in the film's sequel “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” and the comedies “Can't Hardly Wait,” “The Suburbans.” and “Sister Act 2.”
Hewitt resides in the Los Angeles area.