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| Born | February 21, 1979 Waco, Texas, U.S. |
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Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979)[1] 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 (1989–1991). She had her breakthrough as Sarah Reeves Merrin on the Fox teen drama Party of Five (1995–1999) 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 Can't Hardly Wait (1998).
Hewitt's other notable films include Heartbreakers (2001), The Tuxedo (2002) and the two Garfield live-action films (2004–2006). She has starred as Melinda Gordon on the CBS supernatural drama Ghost Whisperer (2005–2010), Riley Parks on the Lifetime drama series The Client List (2012–2013), Special Agent Kate Callahan on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds (2014–2015), and since 2018, Maddie Buckley on the Fox first-responder procedural 9-1-1. 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 Let's 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.[2] 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 world's most beautiful women.
Early life[edit]
Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas[3] to Patricia Mae (née Shipp), a speech-language pathologist, and Herbert Daniel Hewitt, a medical technician. She grew up in Nolanville in Central Texas,[4] and has close kinship ties in parts of Arkansas.[5] After their parents divorced, Hewitt and her older brother Todd were raised by their mother.[6]
As a toddler, Hewitt was attracted to music, which led to her first encounters with the entertainment industry. At age three, she sang "The Greatest Love of All" at a livestock show.[7] The following year, at a restaurant-dance hall, she entertained an audience with her version of "Help Me Make It Through the Night".[8] By age five, she had tap dancing and ballet in her portfolio.[9] At nine, she became a member of the Texas Show Team, an L.A. Gear troupe,[10][11][12] which also toured the Soviet Union.[13][14][15]
Acting career[edit]
1989–1994: Early acting credits[edit]
Hewitt moved to Los Angeles, at age ten, with her mother, to pursue a career in both acting and singing, at the suggestion of talent scouts, and after winning the title of "Texas Our Little Miss Talent Winner".[6] She attended Lincoln High School[16] where her classmates included Jonathan Neville, who became a talent scout and recommended Hewitt for her role in Party of Five.[8]
Hewitt appeared in more than twenty television commercials, including some for Mattel toys.[17] Her first break came as a child actress on the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated (1989–1991),[18] which earned her, as a member of the cast, three Young Artist Award nominations. In 1992, she appeared in the live action video short Dance! Workout with Barbie (1992), which was released by Buena Vista,[19] and obtained her first feature film role in the independent production Munchie, in which she played Andrea, the love interest of a bullied young boy.[20] A year later, she had her first starring role in Little Miss Millions, as a wealthy nine-year old who runs away from her stepmother to find her real mother, and appeared as a choir member in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.[21] Hewitt played Pierce Brosnan's daughter in a pilot for NBC called Running Wilde (1993), which featured Brosnan as a reporter for Auto World magazine, whose stories cover his own wild auto adventures, but the series was not picked up and the pilot never aired.[22] Hewitt later had roles in several short-lived television series, such as Fox's Shaky Ground (1992–1993),[23] ABC's The Byrds of Paradise (1994),[24] and McKenna (1994–95).[25]
1995–1999: Rise to stardom[edit]
Hewitt rose to teen idol status after landing the role of Sarah Reeves Merrin on the popular Fox show Party of Five (1995–99).[26] Originally cast for a nine-episode arc in season two, reception from producers and audiences was so positive that she became a series regular, continuing to play the character until the show's sixth and final season.[27] Co-creator Amy Lippman once stated: "She was a crazy professional. You didn't have to ask yourself, ‘I don't know if she'll be able to work up a head of steam here, I don't know if she'll be able to cry.' She wasn't running to her trailer [between takes] to smoke cigarettes or play with a toy poodle. She was reading material and trying to plot her career".[28] For her performance, Hewitt garnered nominations for a Kids' Choice Award, a Teen Choice Award and a YoungStar Award.[citation needed]
Hewitt became a film star with the release of the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997),[29] in which she starred opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze, Jr, portraying Julie James, the final girl.[30] She was cast in the role based on her "ability to project vulnerability," which the producers, director Jim Gillespie, and writer Kevin Williamson unanimously agreed upon. While the film received mixed reviews, an Entertainment Weekly columnist praised Hewitt's performance, noting that she knows how to "scream with soul".[31] Budgeted at US$17 million, the movie made US$125 million globally.[32][33][34] For her role, she received a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Performance in a Feature Film — Leading Young Actress and the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Female Newcomer. She appeared in the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), which, though not as successful as the first film, took in more money on its opening weekend.[35]
Hewitt starred as Amanda Beckett, the most popular girl in school and the senior class prom queen, in the teen comedy Can't Hardly Wait (1998).[36] Critic James Berardinelli asserted that Hewitt was "so likable that it's hard not to have at least a minor rooting interest" in her character,[37] and with a US$25.6 million gross at the North American domestic box office, the film emerged as a moderate commercial success.[38] Telling You, another 1998 teen comedy, featured Hewitt as the annoyingly sweet ex-girlfriend of a college student working in a pizza joint. In 1999, she played a record company executive in the independent comedy The Suburbans and starred in and produced Time of Your Life, a Party of Five spin-off following her character as she moved to New York City to learn more about her biological parents.[39] Despite Hewitt's popularity at the time, the show received a lackluster viewership and was cancelled after only half the season had aired.[40]
2000–2004: Steady film work[edit]
In The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000), a biographical drama television film based on the life of actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn, Hewitt starred as the title role and served as an executive producer.[41] She had been recommended for the role by director Steven Robman, who had previously directed her in Party of Five.[42] The production aired as a three-hour film on ABC on March 27, 2000, and drew mixed reviews. Entertainment Weekly wrote that Hewitt had "guts" to take on the role and called her "excellent at conveying Hepburn's studied modesty",[43] while The Baltimore Sun review stated: "What's impossibly wrong with this film is that Hewitt has no physical grace while Hepburn was the very embodiment of it".[44]
Hewitt starred alongside Sigourney Weaver in the romantic comedy Heartbreakers (2001), playing a mother-daughter team setting up an elaborate con to swindle wealthy men out of their money.[45] Roger Ebert noted that Hewitt "spends the entire film with her treasures on display, maybe as product placement for the Wonderbra",[46] while BBC.com asserted: "Hewitt though, lacks the necessary duplicity for her character and is too patently agreeable to bitch convincingly, ultimately reducing her to eye-candy among the professionals. Still, she has the right cleavage for the role, and there's sure to be legions of men thankful for that alone".[47] The film made a moderate US$57.7 million globally.[48]
Hewitt starred as a genius scientist with aspirations of field work, alongside Jackie Chan, in the action comedy The Tuxedo (2002).[49] Robert Koehler of Variety noted that Hewitt "has displayed a Chan-like sweetness herself in past roles" and was disappointed that her character is "a haggling, high-strung shrew who's instantly repellent" rather than an amusing sidekick as Chan has had in other Hollywood films.[50] The film made US$104.4 million worldwide.[51] In 2002, she also lent her voice for two direct-to-DVD animated films —The Hunchback of Notre Dame II and The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina.[52]
In 2004, Hewitt starred as a musician in the romantic fantasy drama If Only, the love interest of Ebenezer Scrooge in the television film A Christmas Carol, and Dr. Liz Wilson in the live-action comedy Garfield.[53] With a worldwide gross of US$200 million, Garfield became Hewitt's highest-grossing film to date.[54]
2005–2010: Return to television[edit]
Hewitt portrayed Melinda Gordon, a woman with the ability to see and communicate with ghosts, on the CBS television series Ghost Whisperer, which ran on CBS for five seasons and 107 episodes, from September 23, 2005, to May 21, 2010.[55][56] She also served as a producer and directed three episodes, including the 100th episode. In his review for the first season, David Bianculli, of New York Daily News, wrote: "If [television] really wants a success built around this actress, someone in Hollywood should pay attention to her chameleonic and comedic role in Heartbreakers, and give her a role that plays to those strengths, instead of something this translucent".[57] Nevertheless, the series emerged as a ratings success and earned Hewitt two Saturn Awards for Best Television Actress.[58] In 2005, she played a happily married English woman in the romantic comedy The Truth About Love, and a 28-year-old advertising executive more concerned with being a well-known socialite than being a good person in the television film Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber.
Hewitt reprised her role as Dr. Liz Wilson for Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006),[59] which, though it did not perform as well as its predecessor, achieved a strong box office gross.[60] Her next film release was the comedy Shortcut to Happiness, in which she starred as The Devil, opposite Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin. Filmed in NYC in early 2001, the film became an asset in a federal bank fraud trial when investor Jed Barron was convicted of bank fraud while the film was in production. The film was eventually acquired by The Yari Group and was finally released in 2007.[61] In 2008, she made a cameo appearance in the successful action comedy Tropic Thunder, and reunited with Freddie Prinze Jr. in the animated production Delgo which, when released, was a massive box office bomb,[62] taking in only US$694,782 in North America.[63]
In 2010, Hewitt portrayed a good-hearted barista in the independent drama Café,[64] and a struggling prostitute in the Lifetime film The Client List.[65] While a reviewer felt that Hewitt did "a surprisingly credible job of acting seen-it-all exasperated and emotionally mature without once going giggly-girly" in Café,[66] Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker felt that the actress was able to sell The Client List to the audiences due to her "talent for communicating sincerity and charm".[67] She received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for the latter.[68]
2011–present: Continued television roles[edit]
Hewitt starred as a journalist, opposite Betty White, in the Hallmark Hall of Fame film The Lost Valentine (2011).[69] While reviewers unanimously praised White's performance, Variety wrote: "The same can hardly be said of Hewitt, who —in her current TV movie phase— was put to better use as a mom turned hooker in Lifetime's The Client List.[70] With 14.53 million viewers, the film won its time period and represented the most-watched Hallmark movie in four years.[71]
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In 2012, Hewitt starred as the love interest of a gentile pretending to be Jewish, alongside Ivan Sergei and Joel David Moore in the independent comedy Jewtopia,[72] and played an erotic massagist in the television series The Client List.[73] Based on the 2010 television film of the same name, the series ran for two seasons and featured Hewitt as a different character in a premise that was slightly different from the film.
Between 2014 and 2015, Hewitt played the regular role of Kate Callahan, an undercover agent who joins the BAU, in the tenth season of Criminal Minds.[74][75] She left the series at the end of the season due to her second pregnancy,[76] and decided to take a career hiatus for the next three years. In an interview with Elle magazine, Hewitt remarked: “I was looking in the mirror, talking with myself, going, ‘Hey, we started something, remember? We were gonna take a step back. So let's do that.'"[28]
Beginning in 2018, Hewitt has played Maddie Buckley, an ER nurse working as a 9-1-1 operator after leaving an abusive relationship, on the Fox police procedural 9-1-1. Describing her character, she stated: "Maddie has a toughness to her. But she's also empathetic and sensitive. People will see her composed on the phone, but fully dealing with the pain and anguish of the callers [once she hangs up]".[28]
Other endeavors[edit]
Music[edit]
Hewitt was one of the backing vocalists on Martika's number-one single, "Toy Soldiers" (1989). At age 12, Meldac funded the recording of Hewitt's debut studio album, Love Songs (1992).[77] The album was released exclusively in Japan, where Hewitt became a pop star.[78] Her explanation for her success in Japan is that the Japanese "love perky music. The poppier the music, the better."[79] She was subsequently signed to Atlantic Records, who released her next two albums —Let's Go Bang (1995) and Jennifer Love Hewitt (1996).[80] The albums, along with their singles, failed to chart and Atlantic dropped Hewitt, who did not return to the music scene for three years.[77]
Hewitt recorded the single "How Do I Deal" (1999) for the I Still Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack, which became her first charting single, climbing to No. 59 on the Hot 100 and No. 36 on the Top 40 Mainstream.[81] It reached No. 8 in Australia.[82] She also recorded a cover of the Gloria Gaynor song "I Will Survive", which is featured briefly in the film.[83]
Hewitt appeared in the LFO video for "Girl on TV" (1999),[84] a song which band member Rich Cronin band wrote for her while the two were dating.[85] She also appeared in the music video for the Enrique Iglesias song, "Hero" (2001), as the singer's love interest.[20]
In 2002, Hewitt signed to Jive Records[86] and recorded her fourth studio album, BareNaked, with singer, songwriter, and producer Meredith Brooks.[87] The first single, "BareNaked" (2002), became her biggest radio hit to date when it peaked at No. 24 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, No. 31 on the Adult Top 40 and No. 25 on the Top 40 Mainstream. It climbed to No. 6 in Australia, remaining there for two weeks,[88] and reached No. 33 in the Netherlands.[89] The song later featured in two episodes of Ghost Whisperer: "The Vanishing" (Season 1, episode 20)[90] and "The Collector" (Season 2, episode 20).[91] The moderate success of the single propelled the album to peak at No. 37 on the Billboard 200[92] and No. 31 in Australia.[93] However, it only remained on the chart for three weeks. The second single, "Can I Go Now" (2003), failed to chart in the US, while managing to peak at No. 8 in the Netherlands[94] and No. 12 in Australia.[95]
Since 2004, Hewitt has remained mostly inactive in the music industry, but she released the compilation albums Cool with You: The Platinum Collection (2006) in Asia and Hey Everybody (2007) in Brazil.[96] In 2013, she recorded a cover of "I'm a Woman" to promote the second season of The Client List and shot a music video for the song, which reached the top ten in the iTunes Music Video chart.[97]
Writing[edit]
In November 2009, Hewitt made a foray into comic books, when writer Scott Lobdell scripted the five-issue anthology, Jennifer Love Hewitt's Music Box (2009–2010), based on Hewitt's ideas.[98] The series was published by IDW Publishing and was collected in a trade paperback.[99]
She wrote a book titled The Day I Shot Cupid (2010), in which she speaks of her experiences with love and dating.[100] While promoting the book during a January 2010, interview on Lopez Tonight, Hewitt said that there is a chapter in it about "vajazzling" (decorating a woman's pubis with crystals or rhinestones). This became a big internet hit with the video going viral, widespread news coverage and the term "vajazzling" becoming one of the most searched terms on Google the next day.[101][102][103][104] She has since been credited for the popularization of this trend.[105] Helium.com gave the book a positive review, stating: "Jennifer Love Hewitt's book provides some good guidelines for those that need to work on clarifying their relationship desires before trying to establish their relationships". It was commercially successful upon its release, becoming a New York Times bestseller within a week.[106] [107]
Public image[edit]
Regarded as a sex symbol, Hewitt's public "narrative" throughout her career has been that of "the sexy girl next door [or] the MVP of Maxim". As noted by Elle magazine, it was "bequeathed" to her around the time she turned 18 and starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Can't Hardly Wait (1998), roles which, along with Party of Five, "cemented her status as an icon to a whole generation. Every girl wanted to be her, and every boy had a poster of her on his wall".[28] On her public image, she said: "I think when you start [in Hollywood] younger, the narrative takes off without you. And you kind of go, ‘Oh, okay [...] so I'm that person? Great!’ Before I ever knew in my life what 'sexy' was, I was on the sexy list”.[28]
Hewitt has appeared in several magazines' lists of the world's most beautiful women. In 2002, she was voted 7th in FHM's Sexiest Girls poll, 14th in Rush's Sexiest Women list, and 11th in Stuff's "102 Sexiest Women in the World". She has ranked 32nd, 20th, 35th, 20th, 6th, and 35th in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women in 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014 respectively.[108][109] Hewitt was identified as the "number one reader choice" on the November 1999 and May 2009 covers of Maxim.[110]
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| Born | Anna Kay Faris November 29, 1976 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
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Anna Kay Faris (/ˈfærɪs/;[1] born November 29, 1976)[2] is an American actress and podcaster. She rose to prominence for her work in comedic roles, particularly the lead part of Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie film series (2000–2006).
Faris' film credits include The Hot Chick (2002), Lost in Translation (2003), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Just Friends (2005), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), Smiley Face (2007), The House Bunny (2008), What's Your Number? (2011), The Dictator (2012), and Overboard (2018). She has also had voice-over roles in the film series Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009–2013) and Alvin and the Chipmunks (2009–2015), as well as The Emoji Movie (2017).
On television, Faris had a recurring role as Erica in the final season of the NBC sitcom Friends (2004) and starred as Christy Plunkett in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2020). In 2015, Faris launched Unqualified, an advice podcast, and in 2017, her memoir of the same name was published, which became a New York Times Best Seller.
Early life[edit]
Faris was born on November 29, 1976, in Baltimore, Maryland, the second child of Jack, a sociology professor, and Karen Faris, a special education teacher.[3] Both her parents, natives of Seattle, Washington, were living in Baltimore as her father had accepted a professorship at Towson University.[4] When Faris was six, the family moved to Edmonds, Washington.[5] Her father worked at the University of Washington as a vice president of internal communications,[3] and later headed the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association,[3][6] while her mother taught at Seaview Elementary School in Edmonds.[5]
Faris has an older brother, Robert, who is also a sociologist and professor at the University of California, Davis.[6][7][8] In interviews, she has described her parents as "ultra liberal"[9] and said that she and her brother were raised in an irreligious[10] but "very conservative", traditional atmosphere.[3] At age six, her parents enrolled her in a community drama class for children, as they usually encouraged her to act. She enjoyed watching plays and eventually produced her own material in her bedroom with neighborhood friends. She has said in interviews she often imagined her orthodontal retainer talking to her, and that she pictured herself "on talk shows to talk about [her] talking retainer".[3][11][12]
Faris attended Edmonds Woodway High School (where she graduated in 1994), and while studying, performed onstage with a Seattle repertory company and in nationally broadcast radio plays. She once described herself as "a drama-club dork," and said she used to wear a Christmas-tree skirt in school.[3] She then attended the University of Washington, where she earned a degree in English literature in 1999.[5] Despite her love of acting, she admitted she "never really thought [she] wanted to become a movie star" and continued to act "just to make some extra money," hoping one day to publish a novel.[3][13] After graduating from college, she was going to travel to London, where she had a receptionist job lined up at an ad agency. However, she ended up living in Los Angeles "at the last minute," once she committed to the idea of pursuing acting. Shortly afterwards, she obtained the starring role in Scary Movie.[13] At 22, she lived in a studio apartment at The Ravenswood in Hancock Park.[13]
Career[edit]
Early acting credits (1986–1999)[edit]
Encouraged by her parents to pursue acting when she was young,[14] Faris gave her first professional performance at age nine in a three-month run of Arthur Miller's play Danger: Memory! at the Seattle Repertory Theater. She made US$250 for the role, which was "huge" for her at the time. "I felt like I was rolling in the dough," she recalled.[15] She went on to play Scout in a production of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Village Theatre in Issaquah, Washington, the title character in Heidi, and Rebecca in Our Town. Her theatre credits during that period included productions of Rain, Some Fish, No Elephants, and Life Under Water.[16]
While in high school, Faris appeared in a television commercial for a frozen yogurt brand and in a training video for Red Robin. On the latter, she said in May 2012: "I play, like, the perfect hostess. And I think they still use it."[17]
Faris played brief roles in the made-for-TV film Deception: A Mother's Secret and the independent drama Eden, the latter of which screened at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. Her first major film role came shortly after college, in the independent slasher film Lovers Lane (1999), in which she played an ill-fated cheerleader.[18] A B-movie, it received a straight-to-DVD release. Critical reception was mixed,[19][20] but for her part, Faris garnered her first acting reviews by writers; efilmcritic.com's Greg Muskewitz found her the film's "one center of interest".[21]
Breakthrough with Scary Movie (2000–2006)[edit]
Faris's breakout role came in 2000 when she starred in the horror-comedy parody film Scary Movie,[22] portraying Cindy Campbell, a play on the character of Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) in the slasher thriller Scream. It marked her first starring credit, as she had appeared only in small and supporting parts in theater plays and low-budget features. She found the experience a "great boot camp" for her, as she told UK's The Guardian in 2009, explaining that she "hadn't done much before that. With those movies, you have to be so exact with your props and the physical comedy and everything, so it was a great training ground."[23] Scary Movie was a major commercial success, ranking atop the box office charts with a US$42 million opening weekend gross. It went on to earn US$278 million worldwide.[24] For her performance, Faris received nominations for the Breakthrough Female Performance and Best Kiss Awards at the 2001 MTV Movie Awards. She subsequently reprised her role in Scary Movie 2, released on July 4, 2001.
Her next film role was that of the lesbian colleague of a lonely and traumatized young woman in the independent psychological thriller May (2002), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released in selected theaters.[25] In its review, The Digital Fix found it "one of the finest examples of independent American genre filmmaking" and asserted that Faris played her role "with an infectious level of enthusiasm, frequently skirting the border between a believable performance and one that is completely over the top, but always managing to come down on the right side."[26] Later in 2002, she starred alongside Rob Schneider and Rachel McAdams in the comedy The Hot Chick, about a teenage girl whose mind is magically swapped with that of a 30-year-old criminal. It was a modest commercial success, grossing US$54 million worldwide.[27]
In 2003, Faris was "cast last-minute" opposite Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Sofia Coppola's drama Lost in Translation, where she played a "bubbly, extroverted" actress getting in with an aging actor in Tokyo.[28][29] She felt the film gave her the chance to get people to know her body of work a "little more," and called it "the best experience of [her] life" at the time.[30] While Variety remarked that Faris "contributes an amusing turn" as her "vacuous movie star" character,[31] New York Times concluded that the actress, "who barely registers in the Scary Movie pictures—and she's the star—comes to full, lovable and irritating life as a live-wire starlet [...] this movie will secure her a career."[32] Budgeted at US$4 million, Lost in Translation grossed US$119.7 million globally.[33] She portrayed Cindy Campbell for the third time in 2003's Scary Movie 3.[34]
In 2004, Faris debuted on the last season of the sitcom Friends in the recurring role of Erica, the mother whose twin babies are adopted by Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Monica (Courteney Cox);[35] and in the summer that year, she filmed a small part in Ang Lee's drama Brokeback Mountain (2005). As her character had just "one scene in the movie," she only spent two days on set in Calgary.[28] For the film, Faris, along with her co-stars, received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Faris starred in the 2005 comedies Waiting... and Just Friends, both alongside Ryan Reynolds. Waiting... was an independent production about restaurant employees who collectively stave off boredom and adulthood with their antics. Budgeted at US$3 million, it made US$18.6 million,[36] but a View London reviewer, remarking that the director had "assembled a decent comic cast," felt that "he gives them practically nothing to do. Reynolds and [...] Faris were hilarious together in Just Friends, so it's a shame that their talents are so wasted here."[37] In Just Friends, Faris portrayed Samantha James,[38] an emerging, self-obsessed pop singer landing in New Jersey with a formerly overweight nerd (played by co-star Reynolds), now a successful record producer. It grossed US$50.9 million around the globe,[39] and earned Faris nominations for an MTV Movie Award and two Teen Choice Awards.[40]
Faris played Cindy Campbell for the fourth and final time in Scary Movie 4, which premiered on April 14, 2006. It was intended as the final chapter in the franchise, but a fifth feature was released on April 12, 2013; Faris did not return to appear in it.[41] In 2006, she also appeared opposite Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson in Ivan Reitman's romantic comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend, playing Hannah, the co-worker of a man (Wilson) dating a neurotic and aggressive superhero (Thurman). While critical response was mixed,[42] it made US$61 million worldwide,[43] and Faris and Thurman both got MTV Movie Award nominations for Best Fight.[44]
Continued comedic roles (2007–2012)[edit]
In Gregg Araki's independent stoner comedy Smiley Face (2007), Faris starred as Jane F, a young woman who has a series of misadventures after eating a large number of cupcakes laced with cannabis.[45] It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival[46] and received a limited theatrical release in Los Angeles.[47] Reviews were largely positive; according to the film-critics aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, writers agreed that her "bright performance and Gregg Araki's sharp direction" made the film "more than [the] average stoner comedy."[48] It earned her the "Stonette of the Year" prize at High Times magazine's Stony Awards.[49]
She appeared opposite Diane Keaton and Jon Heder in the independent comedy Mama's Boy, playing an aspiring singer and the love interest of a self-absorbed 29-year-old (Heder). Distributed for a limited release to certain parts of the United States only, Mama's Boy premiered on November 30, 2007, to lukewarm critical and commercial responses.[50][51] She followed it with a starring part in a mainstream feature, Fred Wolf's comedy The House Bunny, where she appeared as Shelley, a former Playboy bunny who signs up to be the "house mother" of an unpopular university sorority after being expelled from the Playboy Mansion. Although it received average reviews, critics were unanimously favorable towards Faris's part,[52] most of them agreeing, according to website Rotten Tomatoes, that she was "game" in what they called a "middling, formulaic comedy."[53] The film was released on August 22, 2008, in the US, and made US$70 million in its global theatrical run.[54]
Faris's first movie of 2009 was the British science fiction-comedy Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel, which follows two social outcasts and their cynical friend as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Faris played Cassie, a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion. The Guardian described her appearance as a "bewildered cameo".[55] It received a theatrical release only in the UK, and later had several television premiere airings across Europe.[56][57]
In the black comedy Observe and Report (2009), Faris co-starred opposite Seth Rogen, portraying a vulgar, hard-partying cosmetic counter employee on whom Rogen has a crush. She was drawn to appear in the movie, as it gave Faris the opportunity to play an "awful character" rather than the usual "roles where you have to win the audience over or win the guy over, and be charming."[58] Controversy arose regarding a scene where Rogen has sex with Faris's intoxicated character, with various advocacy groups commenting that it constituted date rape.[59][60][61] Budgeted at US$18 million, Observe and Report made US$26 million.[62] Faris voiced a weather intern and the love interest of a wannabe scientist in the animated Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as well as Jeanette Miller (one of the Chipettes) in the live-action hybrid Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, both of which were box office successes.[63][64]
Faris starred in the animated live-action film Yogi Bear as a nature documentary filmmaker befriending the titular character. It was released by Warner Bros. on December 17, 2010, receiving largely negative reviews, with many critics unimpressed by its screenplay.[65] The Hollywood Reporter, while admitting to find her "very talented" in its verdict, wondered "what on earth" made her agree to play her role.[66] The film, however, made US$201 million worldwide.[67]
Faris's subsequent film release was the retro comedy Take Me Home Tonight, about a group of friends partying on one summer night during the 1980s. Filmed in 2007, it received a wide theatrical release four years later, on March 4, 2011, to negative reviews and lackluster earnings.[68][69][70] Faris, however, obtained a Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice Movie Actress – Comedy.[71][72] She next had the starring part and served as executive producer of What's Your Number?, where she appeared with Chris Evans.[35] In the movie, she played a woman who looks back at the past 19 men she's had relationships with and wonders if one of them might be her one true love. It garnered generally mediocre reviews, who concluded that the "comic timing" of Faris was "sharp as always," but felt it was wasted in "this predictable, boilerplate comedy."[73] It was released on September 30, 2011, and made US$30 million worldwide.[74] She also reprised her voice-over role in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, released on December 16, 2011.
Her next film role was that of a human rights activist befriending a childish autocrat in the political satire The Dictator (2012), co-starring Sacha Baron Cohen.[75] Faris, who was eager to work with Baron Cohen as she had been his fan "for years,"[76] stated that "90 percent" of the acting in the film was improvised.[76] Critics gave it decent reviews, with Faris's role garnering a similar reception; Los Angeles Times called her "the film's standout" and stated that when "she opens her mouth, that rasp that has made her so much fun to watch (the Scary Movie franchise most memorably) takes hold and turns the dialogue inside out. The kind of true-believer purity she brings to Zoey's eco-terrorizing rants comes close to stealing Baron Cohen's comic thunder."[77] The picture was a box office success, grossing US$179 million globally,[78] and earned Faris the Star of the Year Award at the National Association of Theatre Owners.[79]
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In 2013, Faris acted for the third time with then-husband Chris Pratt, following Take Me Home Tonight and What's Your Number? in a segment of Movie 43, an independent anthology black comedy that featured 14 different storylines, with each segment having a different director.[80] The film was universally panned by critics, with the Chicago Sun-Times calling it "the Citizen Kane of awful."[81][82] In the British romantic comedy I Give It a Year (2013), Faris played an old flame of a writer (Rafe Spall) who hastily tied the knot. Released shortly after Movie 43, the film received mixed reviews and was a commercial success in the UK.[83][84][85]
Faris obtained the main role of the CBS sitcom series Mom, which debuted on September 23, 2013. Her character is Christy, a newly sober single mom who tries to pull her life together in Napa Valley.[86] As she landed the part, the show gave Faris, who had guest-starred in various television programs until then, her first full-time television role.[87] Throughout its eight-season run, the sitcom has become the third most-watched comedy on television,[88][89][90] and has received generally favorable reviews;[91][92] Vulture called her "the most talented comic actress of her generation," and Boston Herald critic, Mark A. Perigard wrote in his verdict: "This is dark material, yet Faris balances it with a genuine winsomeness, able to wring laughs out of the most innocuous lines."[93][94] She has been nominated for one Prism Award and two People's Choice Awards. In 2020, Faris left the show after seven seasons.[95]
Faris reprised her voice-role in the animated science-fiction comedy sequel Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, released in theaters four days after Mom premiered on television.[96][97] Like the first film, Meatballs 2 was a commercial success, grossing US$274.3 million worldwide.[98] The following year, she had an uncredited cameo in the closing-credits sequence of the action-comedy 22 Jump Street, appearing in a segment called 30 Jump Street: Flight Academy.[99][100][101]
Faris and Mom co-star Allison Janney hosted the 41st People's Choice Awards, which were held January 7, 2015.[102] In November, she launched Unqualified,[103] a free-form advice podcast;[104] along with producer Sim Sarna, she is the host of the show, which consists of interviews with celebrities and cultural figures, followed by personal phone-calls to listeners asking for relationship and other advice.[4] Faris was inspired to create the podcast after listening to Serial, and explaining the evolution of the idea, she said: "I love to talk about relationships; that's all I want to talk about with my friends. And then I just thought, I kind of want a hobby [...] So I started asking around to some friends, and I asked this technical producer guy what equipment I should buy on Amazon. And I just started recording my friends when they would come over. And then with my dear friend Sim, we started flushing out the whole thing, which clearly there's still a lot more flushing out to do. It started out as a dinky hobby."[105] As of May 2021, 249 episodes have been released.[106]
Faris reprised her voice-over role in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip in 2015, the fourth installment in the Alvin and the Chipmunks film series.[107][108] In 2016, she had a brief appearance as an exaggerated version of herself in the action-comedy Keanu,[109] and starred in the music video for the song "Hold on to Me" by Mondo Cozmo.[110] In 2017, She is also a musician, and knows how to play percussion instruments. Faris voiced one of the lead characters, Jailbreak, in the animated comedy The Emoji Movie (originally set to be voiced by Ilana Glazer), which was universally panned by critics.[111]
Faris published her first book, Unqualified, in October 2017. The memoir became one of the "top 20 blockbuster books of autumn," according to Amazon,[112] and received a positive critical response; The New York Times found the book to be "goofily self-deprecating, casually profane and occasionally raw, earnest and blunt, like Ms. Faris herself,"[113][114] and The Ringer remarked: "Unqualified is observant, sharp, and startlingly revealing, not only about Faris's romantic history, but of the broader discrepancies between modern male and female Hollywood stardom writ large."[115]
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Carmen Electra[3] (born Tara Leigh Patrick, April 20, 1972) is an American actress, model, singer, and media personality. She began her career as a singer after moving to Minneapolis where she met Prince who produced her self-titled debut studio album, released in 1993. Electra began glamour modeling in 1996 with appearances in Playboy magazine, before relocating to Los Angeles, where she had her breakthrough portraying Lani McKenzie in the action drama series Baywatch (1997–1998).
In 1997, Electra hosted the MTV dating show Singled Out and made her film debut in the comedy horror American Vampire. In 2004, she co-starred in the MTV reality series 'Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen and Dave, with her then-husband Dave Navarro. Electra has achieved recognition for her work in parody films, including Scary Movie (2000), Scary Movie 4 (2006), Date Movie (2006), Epic Movie (2007), Meet the Spartans (2008), and Disaster Movie (2008). Her other film credits include Get Over It (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), Dirty Love (2005), Hot Tamale (2006), and I Want Candy (2007). Electra has also occasionally worked as a dancer, most notably with The Pussycat Dolls, as a featured guest of the group on VH1 Divas 2004.[4]
Electra is often spotlighted for her looks and has been considered a "sex symbol".[5][6] She was named No. 18 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World in 2005 and is the oldest cover girl in the publication history of FHM.[7]
Electra was born Tara Leigh Patrick on April 20, 1972, in Sharonville, Ohio (a Cincinnati suburb),[8] to Harry Patrick, a guitarist and entertainer, and his wife Patricia (d. 1998), a singer.[9] Electra attended Ann Weigel Elementary School and studied dance under Gloria J. Simpson at Dance Artists studio in Western Hills until age nine, when she enrolled in the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA), a magnet arts school in the Cincinnati Public School District.[10] There, she was an older classmate of Nick Lachey, with whom she appeared in a production of Peter Pan.[11][12]
Electra, who told People in 1997 that she had "wanted to dance on Broadway," graduated from Princeton High School in Sharonville in 1990, having transferred there from SCPA two years prior.[13][14] Additionally, Electra attended and graduated from Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Cincinnati.[15]
Electra is of Cherokee, German, and Irish descent,[16] and was very close to her family. She said of her mother, "My mom was my rock," and described her older sister Debbie as being "like a second mother to me".[17] After Debbie moved to Illinois, Electra said her life "revolved around my mom. She was my best friend, in my life 24/7 whether I wanted her there or not."[17]
Electra started her professional career in 1990 as a dancer at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, performing in the show "It's Magic", one of the more popular shows in the park's history.[18] In 1991, she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she met singer and songwriter Prince.[19] Soon after, Electra signed a recording contract with Prince's Paisley Park Records and made her singing debut with her self-titled debut studio album in 1993,[20] and would be her only album release.[21] During her time at Paisley Park Records, she officially became known as Carmen Electra.
In May 1996, she was featured in a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine, the first of several. Electra was featured in Playboy four more times: June 1997, December 2000, April 2003, and the January 2009 anniversary issue. She was on the cover of the last three of these issues.[22]
Electra moved to Los Angeles, where she made her acting debut in the independent comedy horror film American Vampire (1997). In 1997 she was cast as Lani McKenzie in the American drama series Baywatch, for which she achieved her breakthrough. The role lasted a year and helped to establish her as a sex symbol,[16] which has lasted since the late 1990s and the 2000s. In the same year, she began hosting MTV's Singled Out.
In 1999, she appeared in the Bloodhound Gang's music video of "The Inevitable Return of the Great White Dope". That same year she appeared in the film The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human.
In 2000, Electra starred in the horror-comedy parody film Scary Movie as Drew Decker, a character parodied after Casey Becker from Scream (1996).[23] The film was a commercial success,[24] and spawned the Scary Movie franchise which attained a cult following.[23] She later starred as Holly in Scary Movie 4 (2006), the fourth film in the franchise, which holds the box-office record for the best opening on Easter weekend.[25] Electra reprised the role of Lani McKenzie in the 2003 television film Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding.[26]
In 2004, she appeared in the remake of the 1970s TV show Starsky & Hutch (2004), which was a commercial success.[27] For the role, she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss.[28] Electra appeared as characters in the video game Def Jam: Fight for New York and as one of the celebrity challenges in the video game ESPN NFL 2K5, both also in 2004.
In 2005, Electra starred in the family comedy film Cheaper by the Dozen 2, which received negative reviews from critics, although it was a moderate box-office success and Electra's performance was praised, with Andrea Gronvall of The Chicago Reader writing that she was "the most winning performer of the bunch".[29] Also in 2005, she appeared in an episode of House in which she portrayed herself as an injured golfer and farmer. That same year, she joined the voice cast of the animated series Tripping the Rift, replacing Gina Gershon as the voice of the android "Six".
In 2006 she appeared in Date Movie. She occasionally performed with The Pussycat Dolls, most notably as a featured guest of the group when they shared the stage with artists like Patti LaBelle and Debbie Harry on VH1 Divas 2004.[4]
In 2007, she became a published author with the release of her book, How to Be Sexy.[30] Electra continued to appear in parody films, most notably Epic Movie in 2007, and Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie in 2008. She was featured in some video spoofs of lonelygirl15 that advertised Epic Movie.[31] Aside from Epic Movie, all of these films were commercial successes.
Electra appeared as a guest judge on So You Think You Can Dance Season 8 on July 6, 2011. She appeared along with regular series judges Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy and fellow guest judge Travis Wall.
In 2012, Electra joined Britain's Got Talent as a guest judge for the auditions staged in London. She acted as a replacement for Amanda Holden, who was absent due to complications following child birth.
Electra is often spotlighted for her looks and has been considered a "sex symbol" and "pop culture icon".[32][33][34][35]
Electra organized a fundraiser for Head to Hollywood, a non-profit organization which offers support to brain tumor survivors.[36] Other charities which she supports include Elevate Hope,[37] a charity which supports abused and abandoned children, and the HollyRod Foundation, which provides medical, physical, and emotional support to those suffering from debilitating life circumstances, especially Parkinson's disease.[38]
She has modeled for the covers of the comic books Razor and the Ladies of London Night by London Night Studios.[39] In 1997, Electra appeared as the face and spokesperson for Max Factor cosmetics in their television and print ads.[40] From 2004 to 2005, she appeared in commercials for Maxim Men's Hair Color products.
In 2002, an extinct species of fly was named Carmenelectra shechisme in honor of Electra's "splendid somal structure".[41]
In 2005, she began the Naked Women's Wrestling League, acting as the commissioner for the professional wrestling promotion.[42] She also frequently appeared in Taco Bell commercials beginning from the same year.[43]
In 2006, Electra signed on as the spokesmodel for Ritz Camera Centers, appearing in their television and print ads with CEO David Ritz. She is the oldest cover girl in the publication history of FHM Magazine.[44]
In 2010, she released a line of romance toys. To promote them, Electra appeared on an episode of the reality television show The Spin Crowd and enlisted the help of Command PR, the public relations firm the program followed.[45]
In 2019, The Golden Banana, a strip club which is located in Peabody, Massachusetts, used Electra's likeness on social media without her consent,[46] which led her, among other celebrities whose likenesses were also used without their permission, to launch a legal battle against the establishment.[47]
In 2020, after Electra appeared on the critically acclaimed sports documentary miniseries The Last Dance,[48] where she discussed her short-lived relationship with Dennis Rodman. Pornographic video site Pornhub reported that her name was searched on the site more than 1.7 million times, much more opposed to the 150,000 average searches her name received previously.[49][50]
In 2022, Electra created an OnlyFans account, stating "I, for once, have this opportunity to be my own boss and have my own creative vision to share with my fans without someone standing over me".[51]
In August 1998, Electra's mother died of brain cancer, and two weeks later, her older sister, Debbie, died of a heart attack.[11][19]
At that time, Electra had been dating NBA sportsman Dennis Rodman. She and Rodman wed in November 1998 at Little Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas, Nevada.[52][53] Nine days later, Rodman filed for annulment, claiming he was of "unsound mind" when the pair wed.[54][55] Electra explained, "It's easy to get caught up in a moment. You think it's romantic, but then you realize, God, we did it in Vegas? It's like getting a cheeseburger at a fast-food restaurant."[13] The couple reconciled and celebrated New Year's Eve together, but four months later they mutually agreed to end their marriage in April 1999 under "amicable circumstances".[13][56] In November 1999, Electra and Rodman were arrested for misdemeanor battery after police were notified of a domestic dispute at a Miami Beach hotel.[57] They were released on $2,500 bail each and ordered to stay away from each other.[58] The charges were eventually dropped.[59]
Five years later, Electra gave an interview to Glamour in which she admitted that she married Rodman in 1998 in direct response to the numbing emotional pain of having lost both her mother and sister: "I was just going through the motions. I was completely numb. At the time, I was dating Dennis Rodman. He was such a fun person to be around, and we went out every night. I remember thinking, this is my out. I'm just going to have fun, and I'm not going to worry about anything. Right after my mom and sister died, I flew to Las Vegas and Dennis and I got married. I guess I was trying to cling to whatever I had. I'd lost my mom and my sister; I didn't want to lose anyone else."[17]
On November 22, 2003, Electra married Dave Navarro, lead guitarist for the rock band Jane's Addiction. The couple documented their courtship and marriage in an MTV reality television show called 'Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen and Dave.[60] On July 17, 2006, she and Navarro announced their separation, and Electra filed for divorce on August 10, 2006; it was finalized on February 20, 2007.[61][62]
In April 2008, Electra's representative confirmed that she was engaged to Rob Patterson, a member of the nu metal band Otep and hard rock band Filter.[63] Despite remaining engaged for several years,[64] the couple did not wed and in 2012, she appeared as one of the celebrity bachelorettes on the TV dating show The Choice.[65]
In February 2024, Electra's petition to change her legal name, Tara Leigh Patrick, into her stage name was granted by a Los Angeles Superior Court.[3]
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Year
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Role
Notes
1997
Good Burger
Roxanne
American Vampire
Sulka
1998
Baywatch: White Thunder at Glacier Bay
Lani McKenzie
Video
Starstruck
Iona Shirley
The Chosen One: Legend of the Raven
McKenna Ray/The Raven
Welcome to Hollywood
Herself
1999
The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
Jenny Smith
Vacanze di Natale 2000
Esmeralda
2000
Scary Movie
Drew Decker
2001
Sol Goode
Treasure
Perfume
Simone
Get Over It
Mistress Moira
2002
Whacked!
Laura
2003
Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding
Lani McKenzie
TV movie
Uptown Girls
Celebrity
My Boss's Daughter
Tina
2004
Starsky & Hutch
Staci
Monster Island
Herself
TV movie
30 Days Until I'm Famous
Pauline
TV movie
Mr. 3000
Herself
Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon
Debbie
2005
Rent Control
Audrey
TV movie
Lil' Pimp
Honeysack (voice)
Dirty Love
Michelle Lopez
Searching for Bobby D
Rebecca
Getting Played
Lauren
TV movie
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Serena Murtaugh
2006
Date Movie
Anne
Scary Movie 4
Holly
Hot Tamale
Riley
American Dreamz
Herself
National Lampoon's Pledge This!
Herself
Lolo's Cafe
Desiree (voice)
Short
2007
Epic Movie
Mystique
Full of It
Herself
I Want Candy
Candy Fiveways
Christmas in Wonderland
Ginger Peachum
2008
Meet the Spartans
Queen Margo
Disaster Movie
Beautiful Assassin
Bedtime Stories
Hot Girl
2009
Zac Efron's Pool Party
Herself
Short
Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!!
Sybil Williams
2010
Barry Munday
Iconic Beauty
Back Nine
Judy
TV movie
2011
Mardi Gras: Spring Break
Herself
2012
2-Headed Shark Attack
Anne Babish
Video
The Axe Boat
Veronica
Short
2013
Cum Ghosts
Herself
Short
2014
Hollywood Blvd and Sunset Blvd at Night
Herself
Short
Dragula
Lisa
Short
Lap Dance
Lexus
2015
Chocolate City
Club DJ
Book of Fire
Theodora
2023
Good Burger 2
Roxanne
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