Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez's first major screen role in 1995 Latino melodrama Gregory Nava My Family followed years of training in film and television series. Like Rosie Perez, Lopez began his career as a Fly Girl - a dancer on the comedy series, In Living Color - and starred in music videos by Puff Daddy and Janet Jackson. His big break came in 1997 when he appeared in the role of Nava Selena, the story of the success of Tejano singer who was tragically murdered in 1995.

Lopez was first cast as a femme fatale - partly due her classic Latina beauty (she was born in the Bronx to Puerto Rico's parents) - and worked almost exclusively with acclaimed director: Francis Ford Coppola (Jack, 1996), Oliver Stone (U -Turn, 1997) and Bob Rafelson (Blood and Wine, 1996). The 1998 had one of his most famous roles, starring opposite George Clooney in Out of Sight, Steven Soderbergh's adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel. Served as Deputy Chancellor marshal who falls for a charming criminal (George Clooney), Lopez won the praise for his performance severely, sexy, and in the process became the highest paid Latina actress in Hollywood history. That same year he received an introduction to a new generation of supporters by lending his voice to the popular Ants (1998). The luxurious, but much more adult-oriented thriller The Cell (2000) soon followed with what Lopez, one of his first number one openings.

IN an attempt to curry public service room-com, Lopez eased things up compared to Matthew McConaughey in 2001 in a romantic comedy The Wedding Planner. Although Lopez was always gentle in his frequent transition from actress to singer, her next role in the supernatural romance Angel Eyes (2001) did not click with audiences and critics equally and its role in the cathartic revenge thriller Enough (2002) disappeared from theaters Similar shortly after his release. While Maid in Manhattan (2002) was finally referred to a fate similar to his films in recent years, could have foreseen the hostility that 2003 comedy Giggle would be received. In the film, Lopez was cast as a female gangster assigned to guard a kidnapper (played by then real-life-boyfriend Ben Affleck), is keeping a child hostage psychologically challenged. Public reaction against the hard film is probably due (at least in part) to cover over-saturated media duos tumultuous off screen relationship. Although the failure of the film was not exactly what I would call a career-ends of any of the stars, their dynamics in a poor quality screen reportedly led director Kevin Smith excise most of Lopez's role in the Affleck-starring Jersey Girl.

Finally, in 2005, the actress seemed string of box office luck had possibly reached its end. Join with the Thespian Jane Fonda at a second property for over a decade, Lopez scored a modest hit with the comedy Monster In-Law. Lassa Hailstorm’s drama stood for An Unfinished Life followed later the same year with Lopez opposite heavy-duty hitters Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman.In 2006, Lopez tried her hand to produce "Border town", a thriller also starred opposite Antonio Bandera’s.In addition to his screen work, Lopez has also enjoyed successful careers as a singer in the pop-dance circuit. Denise Sullivan, All Movie Finders