The embodiment of the Latin American dream, Jennifer Lopez is today one of the biggest stars of pop, not to mention her cap as an actress but also as a producer. Over the years, Jennifer Lopez has created a nice repertoire between hip-hop, dance and Latin music, with the titles “Jenny From the Block”, “On the Floor”, “Dance Again” or even “Live It Up, in duet with Pitbull.
Born in the Bronx, New York, Jennifer Lopez danced on the TV show In Living Color before her lead role in the film Selena. She turned to music and found great success on the pop and dance charts with hits like “Get Right” and “Play”, while continuing to collect Hollywood film works. She married salsa icon Marc Anthony in 2004 and had twins; the couple separated a few years later. Her recent television projects include American Idol, Shades of Blue and World of Dance.
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Childhood
Jennifer Lynn Lopez, was born on July 24, 1969 in Castle Hill, an area of the Bronx, New York, USA. She is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents. Her mother is a kindergarten teacher, and her father David Lopez, an 8 computer specialist, both born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Jennifer Lopez has two sisters, Lynda and Leslie. She was educated at Catholic schools, including Preston High School in the Bronx. Coming from a modest family, she finances her singing and dancing lessons herself from the age of 10. After studying at Baruch College for a semester, Jennifer divides her time between the work of notary clerk, classes and dance performances in nightclubs in the Manhattan neighborhood. Jennifer Lopez was homeless at eighteen.
Debut
Jennifer Lopez gets a small role in a low budget film, My Little Girl, directed by Connie Kaiserman, in 1987. After months of auditions for dance roles, Jennifer Lopez is selected as a dancer for various rap music videos, an episode of Yo! MTV Raps in 1990, and as a backup dancer for New Kids on the Block and their song Games performance for the American Music Awards in 1991.
Her first major recurring role as a Fly Girl dancer on television comedy program In Living Color from 1991 to 1993. Shortly thereafter, Jennifer Lopez became a professional dancer for Janet Jackson and appeared in the music video for the song That’s the Way Love Goes released in 1993. In 1991, she also appeared in the singer’s music video British Samantha Fox Hurt me Hurt me ( But The Pant Stay On ); we see her dancing several times while singing Hurt me Hurt me.
First movies
Lopez’s first feature film was critically acclaimed Mi Familia ou Ma famille, in 1995. She also appeared in Money Train (1995), opposite Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, and in Jacques (1996), directed by Francis Ford Coppola and with Robin Williams.
Lopez’s first big breakthrough came in 1997, when she was cast to play the title role in Selena, a biopic of pop singer Selena Quintillana-Perez, who was killed by a fan in 1995. Lopez received accolades for her performance, including a Golden Globe nomination. That same year, Lopez starred in the unforgettable Anaconda and in Blood and Wine, opposite Jack Nicholson. Her role as Federal Marshal Karen Sisco in Steven Soderbergh’s film Out of Sight, a film based on Elmore Leonard’s novel and starring George Clooney, further enhanced her image as a bankable movie star.
Career
In February 1997, Jennifer Lopez stars alongside Jack Nicholson and Stephen Dorff in the neo-noir thriller Blood and Wine. It is a business failure; the budget of $ 26 million spent on the thriller only succeeds in generating a million at the box office. Despite this, the thriller was well received by the specialized press. Jennifer Lopez stars the same year in the horror film Anaconda alongside Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde and Owen Wilson).
She is nominated for a Saturn Awards for this role. Finally, Jennifer Lopez now plays the main protagonist Selena in the homonymous film in March of the same year. Jennifer Lopez also undergoes an intense audition during casting. With a budget of $ 20 million, the film grossed $ 35 million. After her debut in Selena, Jennifer Lopez, feeling “at ease with her Latin roots”, recorded a musical demo in Spanish. Jennifer Lopez’s manager sends the demo, titled Vivir Sin Ti, to Sony Music Entertainment, which immediately takes an interest in the singer. Tommy Mottola, at the head of the label, wants him to sing the demo in English.
Jennifer Lopez’s debut album, On the, is a reference to the subway line 6 that she took to reach Castle Hill. The album was released on 1 st June 1999, and reached the top ten on the Billboard 200. The album features the singer’s first Billboard Hot 100 issue, debut single If You Had My Love, as well as top ten Waiting for Tonight. The album also includes a track in Spanish, a duet with a Latin flavor, No Me Ames with Marc Anthony. Although No Me Ames was never released, it reached # 1 on the US Hot Latin Tracks charts in the United States.
On The 6 features duets with artists such as Big Pun and Fat Joe on the trackFeelin ‘So Good, which has moderate success on the Billboard Hot 100. Let’s Get Loud, the album’s last single, was nominated for a Grammy in the category “Best Dance Song” in 2001. Waiting for Tonight was nominated in the same category the year before. No Me Ames received two Latin Grammy Award nominations in 2000 in the “Best Vocal Duo / Pop Group” and “Best Music Video” categories.
Movies Brave
In March 2004, Jennifer Lopez plays a small role in the film Father and Daughter, starring Ben Affleck. Her character, Gertrude Steiney, dies during the birth of her child during the first fifteen minutes of the film. With a budget of thirty-five million dollars, the film was a commercial failure, creating a total of only thirty-six million dollars at the box office. The film, however, is generally well received by the trade press, although it is considered a “cliché from a film with rose water.” In October, Jennifer Lopez stars alongside Richard Gere in the drama Shall We Dance?, a remake of Japanese film of the same name from 1996. With a budget of fifty million dollars, the film relates a total of 170 million dollars in the world. It is well received by the specialized press as one of the best romantic movies.
Also in 2004, Jennifer Lopez befriended an eleven-year-old cancer patient, Paige Patterson. The little girl dies the day after Jennifer Lopez receives an award innovember 2004. After a year away from the music scene, Jennifer Lopez is releasing her fourth studio album, Rebirth, the1 st March 2005which she dedicates to Patterson. Although debuting at the top of the Billboard 200the album fell rapidly in the charts. The first single Get Right reached the top fifteen in the United States, and became his second single certified platinum (after If You Had My Love ). Get Right was a hit in the UK, becoming his second number one single in that country.
The second single, Hold You Down, duet with Fat Joe, ranks sixty-fourth in the US, sixth in the UK and top twenty in Australia. Another song, Cherry Pie, was released at the end of 2005, but the video projects were canceled. It is sent to radios in Spain. Rebirth is certified platinum in the United States by the RIAA. Jennifer Lopez then participates in a duet with LL Cool J on Control Myself, released as a single on1 st February 2006. He reached fourth place on the Billboard Hot 100 and second on UK top singles. This is Jennifer Lopez’s first top ten in the United States in three years. Rebirth is most successful in the UK, where most of its singles reach the top five.
Jennifer Lopez’s recent projects
American Idol
In 2010, despite being busy with her family and her musical and acting endeavors, Lopez decided to enter a new phase of her career: she announced her intention to replace Ellen DeGeneres as the new female judge from the 10th season of American Idol, which also recently welcomed Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler as part of its celebrity jury.
Lopez returned to the hit reality show for its 11th season, earning $ 20 million, almost double what she earned when she first signed up.
In 2012, Lopez announced his departure from American Idol. “Honestly, I feel like now is the time to get back to doing the other things that I do, that I put… on hold because I love Idol so much,” Lopez told Ryan Seacrest during his morning radio show. His departure from the series proved short-lived, however, as Lopez returned to American Idol for its 13th season, in 2014.
Lopez also continued to work on his own music, releasing the album ALIAS in June 2014. During this time, Lopez also collaborated with Pitbull and Claudia Leitte on the song “We Are One” for the World Cup, and has then worked on the 2015 thriller The Boy Next Door, starring Ryan Guzman.
Shades of blue
On the small screen, Lopez has joined Ray Liotta in the NBC crime drama Shades of Blue, playing a corrupt cop who turns on fellow officers to save his own skin and protect his daughter. The show debuted in 2016 with mixed reviews, but then found its place. That same year, Lopez was a judge for the final season of American Idol, and delivered the first performance of his All I’ve Got Residence at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Personal Life
Lopez was briefly married in 1997 to model and actor Ojani Noa. She went on to have a long and widely publicized relationship with rapper Sean “Puffy” Combs. In December 1999, Combs and Lopez were allegedly involved in a shooting outside a New York nightclub, in which three people were injured. Combs was then charged with possession of firearms and bribery, as prosecutors claimed he offered his driver, Wardel Fenderson, $ 50,000 to say that the police charged with guns found on them. crime scene was that of Fenderson. Combs was acquitted of all charges and was quick to confirm that he and Lopez had separated.
Cris Judd
Shortly after this breakup was made public, Lopez began dating Cris Judd, a dancer who appeared in the video for his hit single, “Love Costs Nothing.” After much media speculation, the couple announced their engagement in August 2001 and got married in late September. Nine months later, the couple split up.
Ben Affleck
In the fall of 2002, the star began dating actor Ben Affleck; they announced their engagement in November. Following rumors about the end of the relationship, the couple broke up in early 2004.
Marc Anthony
Lopez then married singer Marc Anthony in June 2004 in a private ceremony at his Los Angeles mansion. Back on the big stage, Lopez found time to join forces with her husband in the 2006 biopic El Cantante. In the film, Anthony plays Hector Lavoe, the internationally renowned salsa singer, with Lopez by his side as Puchi, Lavoe’s wife.
Children
Lopez gave birth to twins on February 22, 2008. The baby boy and girl, named Maximilian and Emme, were Lopez’s first children, and Anthony’s fourth and fifth. In July 2011, Lopez and Marc Anthony announced their intention to separate. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Lopez did not reveal the cause of the breakup, but said, “I loved myself enough to go away.” With the release of a new hit song, the superstar refused to be put off. “I am positive, determined to move on with my life, raise my babies and do the best job I can as a mother, artist and person.”
Filmography
●1986: My Little Girl by Connie Kaiserman
●1995: My Family by Gregory Nava
●1996: Money Train by Joseph Ruben
●1996: Jack de Francis Ford Coppola
●1997: Blood and Wine by Bob Rafelson
●1997: Anaconda, the predator by Luis Llosa
●1997: Selena by Gregory Nava
●1997: U-Turn by Oliver Stone
●1998: Antiz by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson
●1998 Out of Sight of Steven Soderbergh
●2000: The Cell by Tarsem Singh
●2001: A Marriage Too Perfect by Adam Shankman
●2001: Angel Eyes by Luis Mandoki
●2002: Never Again ( Enough ) by Michael Apted
●2003: Love at first sight in Manhattan by Wayne Wang
●2003: Troubled Amours ( Gigli ) by Martin Brest
●2003: Selena: Greatest Hits of Abraham Quintanilla Jr.
●2004: Father and Daughter of Kevin Smith
●2004: Shall We Dance? by Peter Chelsom
●2005: His mother or me! ( Monster-in-Law ) by Robert Luketic
●2005: An Unfinished Life ( An Unfinished Life ) by Lasse Hallström
●2007: The Forgotten of Juarez ( Bordertown ) by Gregory Nava
●2007: El Cantante by Leon Ichaso
●2010: Plan B ( The Back-up Plan ) by Alan Poul
●2011: Scrat’s Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 by Mike Thurmeier and Steve Martino
●2012: What awaits you if you are expecting a child
●2012: Ice Age 4 ( Ice Age: Continental Drift ) of Mike Thurmeier and Steve Martino
●2013: Parker by Taylor Hackford
●2015: A neighbor too perfect for Rob Cohen
●2015: Lila and Eve by Charles Stone III
●2015: On the way! ( Home ) by Tim Johnson
●2016: Ice Age: Laws of the Universe
●2018: Seconde Chance ( Second act ) by Peter Segal
●2019: Queens ( Hustlers ) by Lorene Scafaria
●2019: Wonder Boy, Olivier Rousteing, born under X by Anissa Bonnefont
●2022: Shotgun Wedding of Jason Moore
Discography
●1999: On The 6
●2001: J. Lo
●2002: This Is Me … Then
●2005: Rebirth
●2007: Como Ama Una Mujer
●2007: Brave
●2011: Love?
●2014: AKA
The nominations
In June 1999, she released her album “On The Six” which earned her 2 Grammy Award nominations in the Best Dance Song category for the titles “Waiting for Tonight” and “Let’s Get Loud” and a Latin Grammy Award nomination in the category Best video clip for “No Me Ames” in duet with Marc Anthony.
In December, Jennifer Lopez was arrested along with her then-fiancé, Puff Daddy, after a shootout at a New York club. Despite her sulphurous lifestyle, her career is still going very well. She becomes a sex symbol, in particular thanks to her buttocks, which become a subject of discussion in the press. She is one of the most famous celebrities in Hollywood and one of the most well paid.
Net Worth
Jennifer Lopez has earned a fortune from her versatile career. J.LO was the first Latin to win over $ 1 million for a movie. She has established herself as the highest paid Latin actress in Hollywood. Lopez has sold over 70 million records worldwide, and his films have grossed a cumulative total of $ 3.1 billion. Thanks to his hard work, JLo’s net worth is estimated to be around $ 400 million.