Jennifer Lopez

Biography

An American leading lady of Puerto Rican descent, Jennifer Lopez (click here for J Lo's naked pictures and movies) first won attention as a "fly girl", one of the back-up dancers on the Fox variety series "In Living Color". She went on to act in several failed TV series before finding feature stardom with four key roles in rapid succession: the transit cop torn between Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson in "Money Train" (1995); Robin Williams' teacher in "Jack" (1996); Jack Nicholson's Cuban mistress in "Blood and Wine" (1997); and the title role in the biopic of the slain Tejana singer "Selena" (1997). A third major role in 1997 was in "Anaconda" as the female lead alongside Jon Voight and Ice Cube in a story about a documentary film crew terrorized by a snake in the South American jungle.

Raised in the Bronx, this daughter of a computer specialist and a kindergarten teacher always wanted to perform and began taking dance lessons at an early age. Lopez later danced in the European tour of "Golden Musicals of Broadway", in the chorus behind Hinton Battle in the Japanese tour of "Synchronicity" and in numerous music videos and TV variety specials. While she made her film debut in "My Little Girl" (1986), her real showbiz break did not come until she beat out 2,000 other aspirants, impressing choreographer Rosie Perez, and landed a spot in the chorus of "In Living Color". Lopez stayed with the show from 1991-93, when she elected to branch out into acting. TV roles came quickly, although the vehicles were not all that successful.

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She made her TV-movie debut as a nurse among crash victims in the dense Mexican jungle in "Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7" (CBS, 1993). Lopez went on to portray Melinda Lopez, a Latina maiden under the watchful eye of her father (Pepe Serna) in the short-lived CBS series "Second Chances" (1993-94), and repeated the role in "Hotel Malibu" (1994), an equally unsuccessful revamp of the former. She also appeared in "South Central" (Fox, 1994), as a co-worker of star Tina Lifford. In 1994, Lopez even co-hosted "Growing Up Roses" (CBS), a special recapping the best moments in Tournament of Roses Parade history.

But TV was too small a medium for Lopez, whose sultry, intelligent eyes, luxuriant, wavy hair and fluid body cried out for the big screen. Her first big screen success came with Gregory Nava's "My Family/Mi Familia" (1995), which found her cast as the youthful version of the matriarch of the Mexican-American family, a woman who survived illegal deportation and near-drowning to return to her husband in Los Angeles. That same year, she co-starred as the pistol-packing Gloria Santiago in "Money Train". In 1996, she was Robin Williams' fifth grade teacher, a role not specifically written for a Latina, in "Jack". With strong reviews for her turns in both "Blood and Wine" and "Selena", Lopez was poised for greater things, as evidenced by her casting alongside Nick Nolte and Sean Penn in Oliver Stone's "Stray Dogs/U-Turn" (also 1997).

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