Jennifer Love Hewitt born February 21 1979 is an American actress producer and singer Hewitt began her career as a child actress and singer appearing in national television commercials before joining the cast of the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated 19891991 She had her breakthrough as Sarah Reeves Merrin on the Fox teen drama Party of Five 19951999 and rose to fame as a teen star for her role as Julie James in the horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer 1997 and its 1998 sequel as well as her role as Amanda Beckett in the teen comedy film Cant Hardly Wait 1998 Hewitts other notable films include Heartbreakers 2001 The Tuxedo 2002 and the two Garfield liveaction films 20042006 She has starred as Melinda Gordon on the CBS supernatural drama Ghost Whisperer 20052010 Riley Parks on the Lifetime drama series The Client List 20122013 Special Agent Kate Callahan on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds 20142015 and since 2018 Maddie Buckley on the Fox firstresponder procedural 911 She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Miniseries or Television Film for The Client List pilot film 2010 In music Hewitt has released four studio albums to date After her debut album Love Songs 1992 was released at age 12 exclusively in Japan she went on to record Lets Go Bang 1995 Jennifer Love Hewitt 1996 and BareNaked 2002 the latter of which became her first album to chart in the United States peaking at number 37 on the Billboard 200 chart Her most successful single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart was the 1999 release How Do I Deal which peaked at number 59 In addition to music and acting Hewitt has served as a producer on some of her film and television projects She has appeared in several magazines lists of the worlds most beautiful women Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennifer Love Hewitt licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia