Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Affleck known as Jennifer Lopez (née Lopez; born July 24, 1969), also known by her nickname J.Lo, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer and businesswoman.
Jennifer Lopez is regarded as one of the most influential Latin entertainers of her time, credited with breaking barriers for Latino Americans in Hollywood and helping propel the Latin pop movement in music.
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She is also noted for her impact on popular culture through fashion, branding, and shifting mainstream beauty standards.
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Jennifer Lynn Lopez
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Jennifer Lopez began her career as a dancer, making her television debut as a Fly Girl on the sketch comedy series In Living Color in 1991.
She later rose to prominence as an actress, with leading roles in the films Selena (1997), Anaconda (1997) and Out of Sight (1998) establishing her as the highest-paid Latin actress.
She successfully ventured into the music industry with her debut album On the 6 (1999).
In 2001, she became the first woman to simultaneously have the number one album and film in the United States with her second album J.Lo and romantic comedy The Wedding Planner.
She has since become known for starring in romantic comedies, including Maid in Manhattan (2002), Shall We Dance? (2004), and Monster-in-Law (2005).
Lopez released two albums in 2002: J to tha L–O! The Remixes and This Is Me… Then, the former becoming the first remix album to top the U.S. Billboard 200.
Media scrutiny and the failure of her film Gigli (2003) preceded a career downturn. Her subsequent albums included Rebirth (2005) and Como Ama una Mujer (2007); the latter broke first-week sales records for a debut Spanish album.
In 2011, Lopez returned to prominence as a judge on American Idol and released the album Love?.
In the latter 2010s, she performed a concert residency, starred in the police drama series Shades of Blue (2016–2018), served as a judge on World of Dance (2017–2020), and garnered critical praise for her performance in the crime drama Hustlers (2019).
She has since starred in the films Marry Me (2022), The Mother (2023) and This Is Me… Now: A Love Story (2024).
With over 80 million records sold, Lopez’s most successful singles include: “If You Had My Love”, “Waiting for Tonight”, “Let’s Get Loud”, “Love Don’t Cost a Thing”, “I’m Real”, “Ain’t It Funny”, “Jenny from the Block”, “All I Have”, “Get Right”, and “On the Floor”.
Her accolades include a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Billboard Icon Award and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.
She has been ranked among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time and the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes.
Her other ventures include a lifestyle brand, beauty and fashion lines, fragrances, a production company, and a charitable foundation.
Early life
Jennifer Lopez was born on July 24, 1969, in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, and raised in its Castle Hill neighborhood.
Her parents, Guadalupe Rodríguez and David Lopez, were born in Puerto Rico and met in New York City. After serving in the Army, David worked as a computer technician at Guardian Insurance Company.
Guadalupe was a homemaker for the first ten years of Lopez’s life and later worked as a Tupperware salesperson and a kindergarten and gym teacher. They divorced in the 1990s after 33 years of marriage.
Lopez is a middle child; she has an older sister, Leslie, and a younger sister, Lynda. The three shared a bedroom. Lopez has described her upbringing as “strict”.
She was raised in a Roman Catholic family; she attended Mass every Sunday and received a Catholic education, attending Holy Family School and the all-girls Preston High School, a private school.
In school, Lopez ran track on a national level, participated in gymnastics and was on the softball team. She danced in school musicals and played a lead role in a production of Godspell.
She described herself as a “tomboy” and “very athletic”.
There was “lots of music” in the typically Puerto Rican household, and Lopez and her sisters were encouraged to sing, dance, and create their own plays for family events.
West Side Story made a particular impression on the young Lopez, who wanted to be an entertainer from an early age. As a teenager, she learned flamenco, jazz, and ballet at the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club and taught dance to younger students, including Kerry Washington.
After graduating from high school, she had a part-time secretarial job at a law firm and studied business at New York’s Baruch College for one semester.
At age 18, she enrolled as a full-time student at Manhattan’s Phil Black Dance Studio, where she had already taken night classes in jazz and tap dance.
Her parents were unhappy with her decision to leave college to pursue a dance career. According to Lopez, her parents felt it was “foolish” because “no Latinas did that”.
Her mother asked her to move out of the family home and they stopped speaking for eight months. Lopez moved to Manhattan, sleeping in the dance studio’s office for the first few months.
Selena and film stardom
Film success came quickly, and by the mid-1990s Jennifer Lopez was appearing with such notable actors as Robin Williams (Jack, 1996) and Jack Nicholson (Blood and Wine, 1997).
Lopez still remained somewhat on the periphery of the public vision, however, until she landed the lead role in Selena (1997), a biopic of the murdered Tejano singer.
Lopez’s immersive performance as Selena earned her rave reviews and a Golden Globe nomination.
She went on to star in a number of thrillers and action dramas, including Anaconda (1997), U Turn (1997), Out of Sight (1998), and The Cell (2000), and she gained widespread praise for The Wedding Planner (2001), her successful first attempt at romantic comedy.
That release was quickly followed by the romantic drama Angel Eyes.
These films paired her with many of the most bankable and respected leading actors of the 1990s and early 2000s, including George Clooney, Sean Penn, and Matthew McConaughey.
Pop music success and business ventures
In 1999 Jennifer Lopez added pop artist to her list of titles with the release of her debut album,
On the 6. To the surprise of many critics (but not to her devoted fans), the album quickly went platinum and subsequently sold more than eight million copies worldwide.
Jennifer Lopez performing during her Dance Again World Tour in Paris, France in 2012
It spawned several hits, including the Latin-tinged “Let’s Get Loud” and the club banger “Waiting for Tonight.” Her second album, J.Lo (2001), sold more than 270,000 copies in its first week.
As her career kicked into high gear, Lopez was involved in a series of high-profile relationships—first with rapper and producer Sean (“Puff Daddy”) Combs (later known as Diddy) and later with actor Ben Affleck—that subjected her to heavy scrutiny by the entertainment media.
Her relationship with Affleck was immortalized in Lopez’s third album, This Is Me…Then (2002), which includes the single “Dear Ben” as well as “Jenny from the Block.”
The latter song’s music video notoriously shows Lopez and Affleck flaunting their romance on a private yacht.
In 2003 she starred opposite Affleck in Gigli, which was widely panned by critics, and a number of her subsequent films were box-office disappointments.
The couple split up in 2004. Lopez also pursued numerous business projects, including launching a fashion brand and fragrance and skin care lines.
Marriage to Marc Anthony and American Idol
In 2004 Lopez married singer Marc Anthony, and the couple appeared in El Cantante (2006), a biopic of salsa musician Hector Lavoe.
Her later albums include Rebirth (2005); the Spanish-language Como ama una mujer (2007), which reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Latin album chart; Brave (2007); Love? (2011), which features the up-tempo hit “On the Floor”; and A.K.A. (2014).
In February 2008 Lopez gave birth to twins, her first children and Anthony’s fourth and fifth.
She returned to the big screen in The Back-up Plan (2010), a romantic comedy in which she starred as a single woman who finds Mr. Right after becoming pregnant through artificial insemination.
Lopez later served (2011–12, 2014–16) as a judge on the television talent show American Idol.
Although she and Anthony separated in 2011 (divorced 2014), they worked together as producers and hosts of the TV program ¡Q’Viva!: The Chosen (2012), a talent competition for Latin American performers.
Lopez subsequently appeared in What to Expect When You’re Expecting (2012), an ensemble comedy about parenting.
In the thrillers Parker (2013) and The Boy Next Door (2015), she played, respectively, a divorced businesswoman who takes part in a heist and a woman who is drawn into a romance with a teenager who then begins stalking her.
Lopez also provided voices for the animated films Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), Home (2015), and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016).
Hustlers, Super Bowl performance, and later projects
Jennifer Lopez assumed the starring role in the law-enforcement procedural Shades of Blue (2016–18), portraying a conflicted police officer.
In Second Act (2018) she took a comedic turn as a woman who lands a covetable executive position at a Manhattan cosmetics firm after her friends embellish her résumé.
Lopez then joined a largely female cast in Hustlers (2019), a comedy drama about strippers who scheme against their wealthy clients.
The film received positive reviews, and Lopez earned a Golden Globe nomination for a performance as the street-smart yet warmhearted single mother Ramona.
In 2020 Lopez and Colombian singer and musician Shakira performed at the Super Bowl halftime show. The following year Lopez sang “This Land Is Your Land” and “America the Beautiful” at the U.S. presidential inauguration of Joe Biden.
At the end of her performance, she sang the last lines of the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish, an off-scripted moment that drew praise for its gesture of inclusion toward the country’s Spanish-speaking Latino and immigrant communities.
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In 2022 Lopez starred in two marital-themed comedies. Marry Me centers on a pop superstar who, after discovering that her fiancé is cheating on her, marries a math teacher (played by Owen Wilson) attending one of her concerts.
In the action-packed Shotgun Wedding, a destination wedding goes awry when guests are taken hostage, and the bride and groom must rescue them. In 2023 she starred in the action thriller The Mother.
Marriage to Ben Affleck and This Is Me…Now
In 2021 Lopez and Affleck rekindled their relationship, and they were wed the following year. In 2022 the documentary Halftime, which focuses on her life and career, was released.
In February 2024 she dropped her first studio album in a decade, This Is Me…Now. Promoted as a “sister album” to 2002’s This Is Me…Then, the new album explores the singer’s love life, in particular her relationship with Affleck.
In 2024 Lopez was also chosen to be a cochair (alongside Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, and Zendaya) for that year’s Met Gala, the annual benefit for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
After months of rumors, she and Affleck announced in August that they were divorcing.
