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| Early life | |
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Lopez was born on July 24, 1969 in The Bronx, New York[16] and was raised on Blackrock Avenue in the borough's Castle Hill neighborhood.[17] She is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe (née RodrÃguez), a kindergarten teacher and David Lopez, a computer specialist.[18][19] Lopez was raised as a Roman Catholic.[20][21][22] She has two siblings, Lynda and Leslie. Lopez spent her entire academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at the all-girls Preston High School in the Bronx.[23] In school, Lopez did gymnastics, ran track on a national level, and was on the school softball team.[24] She inherited her love of show business from her mother, who wanted to become a professional entertainer herself.[24] Lopez stated that her mother encouraged her kids to throw on little shows around the house, just for fun, performing songs from Broadway, etc.[24]
She financed singing and dancing lessons for herself from the age of nineteen. After attending Baruch College for one semester, Lopez divided her time between working as a notary public in a legal office,[25] dance classes, and dance performances in Manhattan night clubs.[26] She had a small part in the 1987 film My Little Girl, at the age of sixteen.[27]
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| 1991–98: Career beginnings and film breakthrough with | |
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After months of auditioning for dance roles, Lopez was selected as a dancer for various rap music videos, a 1990 episode of Yo! MTV Raps, and as a backup dancer for the New Kids on the Block and their performance of their song "Games" for the American Music Awards in 1991. She gained her first regular high-profile job as a "Fly Girl" dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color from 1991–1993.[23] Soon after, Lopez became a backup dancer for Janet Jackson and made an appearance in her 1993 video "That's the Way Love Goes".[28][29][30]
Lopez's first television job as an actress was on the Fox series South Central.[23] She also made guest appearances in Second Chances and Hotel Malibu. She then appeared in the made-for-television film Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7. Lopez's first serious screen role was in Gregory Nava's 1995 drama My Family, playing the character of Young Maria in the 1920s. After starring alongside Jimmy Smits and Edward James Olmos in My Family, which earned her a Independent Spirit Award nomination, Lopez starred in the action film Money Train, opposite Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson.[31][32][33] In 1996, she reportedly beat out Ashley Judd and Lauren Holly for the supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola's 1996 comedy Jack starring Robin Williams.[34] She then starred opposite Jack Nicholson in Bob Rafelson's well-received noir thriller Blood and Wine (1996).[23]
Lopez earned widespread acclaim for her role as "Selena"
"That said, [Jennifer Lopez] takes what little she has in the way of a script and does a superb job playing [Selena Quintanilla Perez]. The movie rests squarely on her shoulders and she carries it well from start to finish. Her concert work is slick and stylish. It isn't her fault if there's too much of it in the final product. "
— Chris Cobb from The Spectator on Lopez performance in Selena, 1997[35]
Lopez's first big break came in 1997, when she was chosen to play the title role in Selena, a biopic of the Tejano pop singer Selena.[23] Despite having previously worked with Nava on Mi Familia, Lopez was subjected to an intense auditioning process before landing the role.[36] Production of the movie began in mid 1996.[37] Lopez played Selena in her 20s, while Rebecca Lee Maza played Selena in her younger years.[38] During pre-production, Mexican-American activists were highly critical that Jennifer Lopez, a New York City native born to Puerto Rican parents, was selected to play Selena. They preferred an actress with Mexican roots. However, after seeing Lopez's portrayal of Selena, they revised their opinions and were more accepting of Nava's decision.[39] Lopez earned widespread outstanding reviews and praise from critics for her portrayal of Selena. Kenneth Turan from Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan while giving the film a mixed review, he wrote that Selena was not just a celebration of Selena's life, but the actress who played her.[40] Joe Baltake said that Lopez was "is sensational in the title role" and complimented her for pulling off lip-syncing to Selena's original tracks as her own, as she wasn't a trained singer at the time.[41] She garnered multiple awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe Award nomination for "Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy". Lopez has won an MTV Movie Award. Selena had a budget of $20 million, and grossed $35 million[42][43]
Later that year, Lopez appeared in two major films. She starred in the horror film Anaconda alongside Ice Cube and Jon Voight, playing the role of Terri Flores, a director who is shooting a documentary while traveling through the Amazon River.[44] Despite being a modest box office hit, the film was critically panned.[45] Lopez then starred as the leading actress in the neo-noir film U Turn, which is based on the book Stray Dogs, starring alongside Sean Penn and Billy Bob Thornton.[23] In 1998, she had one of her most acclaimed roles, starring opposite George Clooney in Out of Sight, Steven Soderbergh's adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel.[23][46] Cast as a deputy federal marshal who falls for a charming criminal, Lopez won rave reviews for her performance and in the process she became the first Latina actress to earn over $1 million for a role.[47][48] That same year, she provided the voice for Azteca on the computer-animated film Antz.[49][50]
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| 1999–01: Musical debut with | |
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By May 1999, publicity for Lopez's debut album had begun, and the news spread fast.[51] Lopez's debut album On the 6, a reference to the 6 subway line she used to take growing up in Castle Hill,[23] was released on June 1, 1999, and reached the top ten of the Billboard 200. Her debut single, "If You Had My Love" was released on May 21, 1999. It debuted at the lower ends of the Billboard Hot 100 at 64, and due to high airplay and sales, it reached the top spot on June 12, 1999, her first number-one lead single; it remains her only song to reach the top spot without a feature.[52][53] It stayed on the chart for a total of 25 weeks, and in addition peaked at number-two on Billboard Pop Songs Chart.[53] Looking back on the record's success, during an interview in 2011, Lopez stated "Still I think about that and still it's like wow, my first record I ever did went to number one. It's just an overwhelming feeling. This does not happen all the time. This is a very special thing."[54] It was proceeded by the release of "Waiting For Tonight", which peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was a dance club hit.[55] Prior to the release of "Waiting For Tonight" as a single, a Spanish language Latin-flavored ballad with Marc Anthony (her husband from 2004 to 2011), "No Me Ames" was released and failed to chart on major charts.[51][52]
"English is my first language. I grew up here. I was born here, I didn't have a career in Spanish first. I think it [the album] appeals definitely to my generation of people, we grew up in American but had Latin parents or parents of different ethnicity"
— Lopez on the appeal of her album to the Spanish and English community.[51]
On the 6 featured guest artists such as Big Pun and Fat Joe on the track "Feelin' So Good", which had moderate success on the Billboard Hot 100, however failed to reach the top 50. "Let's Get Loud", the final single, earned Lopez a Grammy Award nomination in the "Best Dance Recording" category in 2001 Grammy Awards.[56] "Waiting for Tonight" was nominated for the same category the previous year.[57] "No Me Ames" received two nominations at the 2000 Latin Grammy Awards – "Best Pop Duo/Group with Vocal Performance" and "Best Music Video". In addition, Lopez was nominated for more awards then any other at the 1999 The Billboard Music Video Awards, scoring seven nominations in total, leading the likes of Christina Aguilera.[58] On The 6 had sold three million copies worldwide by August 2000.[59] With the release and promotion of On The 6 over, Lopez had successfully converted herself from film star to pop star within 12 months.[60] Around this time, Lopez's fans started to dub her as "J.Lo". Lopez then starred opposite Vincent D'Onofrio, in the psychological thriller film The Cell, released on August 18, 2000.[61] She portrayed Catherine Deane, a child psychologist who uses virtual reality to enter into the minds of her patients to coax them out of their comas. The film was released in August 2000 and became a box office success opening at number one.[46][62]
By August 2000, Lopez had begun work on her sophomore album.[59][63] J.Lo, was released on January 23, 2001 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, exceeding sales of 270,000 copies in its first week.[64][65] In addition, the album dethroned The Beatles's 1 from the top spot.[65] At the same time, her romantic comedy film, The Wedding Planner, which she stard in alongside Matthew McConaughey led box office receipts,[23][66][67] making Lopez the first female to have a film and an album at number one in the country, in exactly the same week.[23][64][66] J.Lo was more urban oriented than On the 6. The lead single, "Love Don't Cost a Thing", was her first number-one single in the United Kingdom and took her into the top five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.[68] She followed it up with "Play" which gave her another top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number three in the UK.[1] Her next single were "I'm Real" reached number one on the Hot 100, as well as spending over a year on the chart, with a total of 62 weeks.[1] "I'm Real" was controversial for using a sample of the song "Firecraker"; which singer Mariah Carey had wanted to sample first. It was later shockingly announced that Carey's ex husband, Tommy Mottola had instructed record executive Irv Gotti to give Lopez the sample before Carey, and Lopez hadn't any knowledge of this at all.[69] "Ain't It Funny" was released however didn't receive proper commercial promotion in the United States therefore ineligible for charting on the Hot 100. To capitalize on this, Lopez asked The Inc. Records (then known as Murder Inc.) to remix both songs ("I'm Real" and "Ain't It Funny), which featured rap artists Ja Rule (on both) and Cadillac Tah (on the "Ain't It Funny" remix). "Ain't It Funny (murder remix)" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for several weeks, and led Radio Airplay and Pop Songs charts.[1] On July 24, 2001, She re-released J. Lo on her 32nd birthday with the remix of "I'm Real" as a bonus track. Also, "Si Ya Se Acabó" was released in Spain, due to the success "Que Ironia." In 2001, Lopez performed on tour on the Let's Get Loud "Live in Puerto Rico" Concert. J.Lo has sold 4 million copies in the United States alone. On September 27, 2004, a box set was released by Epic Records featuring On The 6 and J.Lo combined.[70]
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Lopez next role, in the supernatural romance film Angel Eyes released 2001, was a box office flub and failed to garner a proper audience, in addition film critics were not impressed either.[71] Following the success of the re-release of J.Lo, Lopez decided to devote an entire album to the remix effort, releasing J to tha L–O! The Remixes, on February 5, 2002. This album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first remix album in history to debut at the top on the chart, selling over 150,000 copies in its opening week.[72][73] Featured artists on J to tha L-O! The Remixes included P. Diddy, Fat Joe, and Nas, and the album included rare dance and hip hop remixes of past singles. It is the third all-time biggest-selling remix album in history, after Michael Jackson's Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, The Beatles' Love and Madonna's You Can Dance, having sold a total of 1.5 million copies as of October 2010.[74] In addition, it dethroned Alan Jackson's Drive from the number one spot on the chart, which had spent 3 consecutive weeks at the top.[75][76] J to tha L-O: The Remixes sold 624,000 copies within its first month, and stayed in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for a month, too.[77] It remained the only album to debut at number one in the United States for nearly 10 years, until Justin Bieber's remix effort in 2011 debuted at the top spot with similar opening sales.[78] "I'm Gonna Be Alright" which was previously on her J.Lo album was released as a single; impacting the charts by July 2002 and reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.[1][79] "I'm Gonna Be Alright" spent 23 weeks on the chart.[1] In May 2002, she starred in the thriller film Enough as Slim, a woman abused by her husband and on the run from him. The film garnered negative reviews,[80] however the fight scene at the finale chapter of the movie in which Slim kills her husband was praised.[81] In addition, the film was considered a "kick-butt, female empowerment" movie.[82]
Lopez released her third studio album, This Is Me... Then, on November 26, 2002. It was dedicated to her then fiancé, actor Ben Affleck.[83] The songs from the album, in particular the fifth track, "Dear Ben" detailed her romantic relationship with Affleck.[83] The album debuted at number six (her lowest debut as of that time) however contained her highest first-week sales of over 310,000 copies; more than double to that of J to tha Lo: The Remixes.[84] It moved to 2 on the chart later on, where it peaked, and spent 40 weeks on the chart.[85] By February 2003 (5 months following its initial release) it remained in the Top 10, managing to average around 80,000 copies per week.[86] The album's lead single, Jenny from the Block" (featuring Jadakiss and Styles P) was released and reached the third spot on the Hot 100. The song "intones her (Lopez) modest childhood roots vowing she wishes to remain simple despite her diamonds."[83] Its accommodating music video featured Lopez and her then fiancé, Ben Affleck under the scrutiny of the paparazzi.[87] This Is Me ... Then spawned three other singles, "All I Have" (featuring LL Cool J) being the second, reached number one on the Hot 100, and[1] "I'm Glad" and "Baby I Love U!" were the final two singles released from the album, peaking at 32 and 72 on the Hot 100 respectively.[1] The video for "I'm Glad" recreated scenes from the 1983 film Flashdance, leading to a lawsuit over copyright infringement, which was later dismissed.[88][89] In addition, This Is Me Then included a cover of Carly Simon's 1978 "You Belong to Me". The album has sold 2.5 million copies in the United States, lower than her previous studio albums.[74]
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| 2003–05: Focus on film and | |
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Following her third studio effort, Lopez took a musical hiatus to focus on her film career. She appeared alongside Ralph Fiennes in the romantic comedy film Maid in Manhattan, released on December 13, 2002. Her character, Marisa Ventura, is a struggling single mother who lives in the Bronx and makes her living cleaning rooms in a super-luxurious Manhattan hotel, and gets mistaken for a socialite by a princely politician.[90] Maid in Manhattan was a box office hit, opening at number one. The New York Times compared the film's storyline to her 2002 song, "Jenny from the Block", commenting, "In her new single, Jenny From the Block, Jennifer Lopez declares that despite her enormous wealth and global fame, she has not lost touch with her roots."[91] Gigli a film which Lopez starred as a Lesbian, across her then-lover Ben Affleck was released on August 1, 2003, and was a box office flub, and is often considered one of the worst films ever made.[92][93] In 2004, once again she starred in another movie with Ben Affleck, Jersey Girl, but only grossed $36 million at the box office and received poor reviews. In August 2003, (after the international flub of "Gigli") it was announced that Lopez was star in Shall We Dance?.[92] The move was released in 2004, in which Lopez starred as Paulina alongside Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon; it reached the third spot at the Box Office.Shall We Dance?, grossed $112,238,000, at the international box office. Domestically, Shall We Dance? grossed $57,890,460 and a total of $170,128,460 worldwide.[94] By this time, Lopez was well established as one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood and the highest-paid Latin actress in Hollywood history, though she's never had a film grossing over $100 million in the USA. She was on The Hollywood Reporter's list of the top ten actress salaries in 2002, 2003, and 2004.[10]
Lopez released her fourth studio album, Rebirth, on March 1, 2005.[95] The lead single was "Get Right",[95] reaching 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was a dance club hit.[96] The song reached number one in the Tags:Maid In Manhattan,Shall We Dance?,The Hollywood Reporter,Hollywood, | |
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