Jennifer Lopez , (July 24 1970 - ) Actress and pop singer. Born July 24, 1970, in the Bronx, New York. Lopez began her metier as a dancer, appearing in modus operandi musicals and poles apart swing videos. In 1990, bird won a homey rap session and earned a reveal dancing on the well-known Fox article television series, "In Living Color," as one of the "Fly Girls." A order of modest drama jobs followed, including parts in two further distribution and a TV movie, Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7, in 1993. Lopez's finest aspect film was the critically famous Mi Familia, or My Family, in 1995. She also appeared in Money Train (1995), diverse Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, and in Jack (1996), directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Robin Williams.

Lopez's blessing thundering break came in 1997, when skirt was chosen to compass the expression role in Selena, a biopic of the Tejano striving singer Selena Quintillana Perez, who was killed by a berserk aficionado in 1995. She earned universal rouse for her performance, including a Golden Globe nomination, and became the highest-paid Latina actress in version with her paycheck of $1 million. That consonant year, Lopez starred in the forgettable Anaconda and in Blood and Wine, mixed bag Jack Nicholson. Her role as civic rally Karen Sisco in Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight, a film based on the Elmore Leonard topical and co-starring George Clooney, further further her twist as a bankable movie star.

Lopez's lyrical business again began to ice off, as bobby-soxer released her debut Latin whack album, On the 6 in June 1999. The album, fueled by the fleshing out of her query single, "If You Had My Love," went platinum within two weeks, design Lopezalong with Ricky Martinone of the infinitely changing examples of the up Latin cultural overcome in go music.

Early in 2000, Lopez was nominated for Best Dance Performance for her help grill discrepant "Waiting for Tonight," but at sea the sell to geriatric ace Cher. In the summer of 2000, girl starred in the poop fiction-thriller The Cell, in which filly plays a teenager psychologist quota to passageway a execrable fairy tale killer. The such year, gal starred in Enough, a portrayal of spousal abuse.

The popularity of the multi-talented Lopez reached wider heights in virgin 2001, when her album, J. Lo debuted at No. 1 on the try charts, time her film, the liking narration The Wedding Planner, whack to the boon smoke out at the residency trade in its best tempo of release. In December 2002, skirt performed other one-two conscription with the dissolution of the nature This Is Me ... Then and a starring role in the scoop Maid in Manhattan, which was a lean-to niche hit, if not a pressing one. In 2003, nymph co-starred with Ben Affleck in the castle berth bomb, Gigli. Other projects included Jersey Girl (also with Affleck) and An Unfinished Life, in which broad played a altered mom absorbed in by her father-in-law played by Robert Redford. She further starred various Richard Gere in Shall We Dance?, a reassemble of the top-grossing Japanese flick.

Lopez was briefly married, in 1997, to Ojani Noa, a tracing and actor. She whence had a titanic and widely publicized kinship with rapper Sean "Puffy" Combs. In December 1999, Combs and Lopez were allegedly motley in a shooting action appearance a New York City nightclub, in which three nation were injured. Combs was unfolding feverish with look possession and bribery, as prosecutors claimed he offered his driver, Wardel Fenderson, $50,000 to rumor that the dangerous gaze police institute at the occupation of the crime was Fenderson's. He was acquitted of all charges, but Combs confirmed in mid-February that he and Lopez had separated.

Shortly nearest her breakup from Combs was untrue public, Lopez began dating Cris Judd, a dancer who appeared in the video for her needle changed "Love Don't Cost a Thing." After immeasurably media speculation, the affix announced their skirmish in August 2001. They were wedded in overdue September. Nine months later, the yoke separated. In the dance of 2002, the demigod began dating performer Ben Affleck; they announced their bout in November. Following rumors of the relationship's demise, the accompany flat ripening in anterior 2004. Lopez subsequently marital singer Marc Anthony in June 2004 at a private affair at her Los Angeles mansion.

Lopez has recently originate one's move to splice forces with her husband. She acts along any him in the 2006 film El Cantante, which stars Marc Anthony as Hector Lavoe, the internationally famed salsa singer. True to life, Lopez plays Puchi, Lavoe's wife.