She was born on the 24 of July 1970 in Bronx, New York. Her parents are from Puerto Rico and sheconsiders herself Puerto Rican. Her height is 5'6. Her first role was as Myra in the TV-movie My Little Girl. A
couple of years later she got the role as one of the Fly Girls on the hit comedy show In Living
Color. Her first big screen appearence she got in the movie My Family/Mi Familia. In 1995 Lopez got her
first major role as Grace Santiago, a New York City transit cop in the movie Money Train. In 1996
Jennifer co-starred in Jack, a comedy directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
1997 was a busy year for her as she
appeared in four movies. As Jack Nicholson's Cuban mistress in Blood and Wine, in Selena, Anaconda
and Oliver Stone's U-Turn. She also became the first latin woman to receive $1 million for a movie.
In 1998 she did Out of Sight with George Clooney, for which she also earned two MTV Movie Award nominations, in the best actress and best kiss categories. She could be last heard in the movie Antz.
She has also appeared in two music videos: Janet Jackson's That's the Way Love Goes (1993) and
Puff Daddy & The Family's Been Around the World (1997).
She was chosen by "People" magazine in 1997 as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
She married Ojani Noa in 1997 and divorced him a year later. In 1998 she was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance
in Selena and she has got a MTV Movie Awards nomination for the same role.
In the summer of 1999 she released an album called On the 6. The first single from the album, If you had my love, has already sold platinum in US.
She was chosen by "People" magazine in 1997 as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
She married Ojani Noa in 1997 and divorced hi