Jennifer Lopez Movies

Education
Preston High School, Bronx , New York, 1986
Baruch College, New York , New York, 1987
Bronx Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club, Bronx , New York
Holy Family School, Bronx , New York
Milestones
1986 First feature, small role in My Little Girl
1988 Danced in the chorus of Synchronicity a musical performed in Japan
1988 First big break in traveling theater review Golden Musicals of Broadway
1991 Won a dance competition and was hired as a fly girl on the Fox variety series In Living Color
1993 Originated role of Melinda Lopez on the short-lived CBS series Second Chances
1993 First TV-movie, Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (CBS)
1994 Co-starred on the acclaimed but short-lived Fox sitcom South Central
1994 Reprised the role of Melinda Lopez on the equally short-lived Hotel Malibu (CBS)
1995 First leading role in a film, as transit cop Grace Santiago in Money Train
1995 First supporting role in features, played young Maria, the family matriarch, in Gregory Nava s My Family/Mi Familia
1996 Played the fifth grade teacher of a rapidly aging ten-year-old (Robin Williams) who looks forty in Francis Ford Coppola s Jack
1996 Played the title role of slain Tejano singer in Selena ; reportedly received a $1 million salary making her the highest-paid Latina actress
1997 Co-starred in Oliver Stone s U-Turn as a beautiful young woman whose husband (Nick Nolte) pays a two-bit criminal (Sean Penn) to kill her
1997 Played a woman simultaneously involved with a wine merchant (Jack Nicholson) and his stepson (Stephen Dorff) in the thriller Blood & Wine
1998 Co-starred as a female US Marshall taken hostage by an escaped convict (George Clooney) in Out of Sight
1998 Lent her voice to the animated feature Antz
1999 Released her debut album On the 6 , featuring the hit dance single Waiting for Tonight
2000 Played a devoted child psychologist capable of navigating the human subconscious in the bizarre sci-fi murder flick The Cell
2001 Had title role in the romantic comedy The Wedding Planner ; film hit number one on the box-office charts
2001 In November, headlined an NBC special marking her first ever concert performance Jennifer Lopez in Concert
2001 Launched her clothing line J-Lo by Jennifer Lopez
2001 Released sophomore album J.Lo
2001 Starred as a policewoman who finds love with recently widowed James Caviezel in the romantic drama Angel Eyes
2002 Opened a Cuban eatry in Pasadena called Madre s
2002 Plays a hotel worker in the Cinderella-like Maid in Manhattan
2002 Released signature frangrance Glow, via perfume-maker Lancaster
2002 Starred as an abused wife who sees murder as her only out in the thriller Enough
2003 Cast opposite Ben Affleck in the box office flop, Gigli
2003 Contracted to appear in magazine and billboard ads for Louis Vuitton luggage
2004 Featured oppositie Affleck in writer-director Kevin Smith s Jersey Girl
2004 Guest starred as herself on the two part season finale of NBC s Will & Grace
2004 Starred as a dance instructor opposite Richard Gere in Shall We Dance?
2005 Cast opposite Robert Redford as an abused woman who moves in with her father-in-law in Lasse Hallström s An Unfinished Life
2005 Co-starred with Jane Fonda and Michael Vartan in Monster-in-Law
2006 Executive produced the MTV reality series, Moves revolving around the lives of dancers working to make it in the business
2007 Cast in El Cantante alongside her husband, Marc Anthony who plays Hector Lavoe the man behind the salsa movement of 1975
2007 Cast opposite Antonio Banderas in Bordertown playing a reporter investigating a series of murders on the border of Juarez and El Paso
2010 Guest-starred on an episode of CBS How I Met Your Mother playing Anita Appleby, a no-nonsense author of self-help books that teach women how to mold men into relationship machines
2010 Joined the judges panel for the 10th season of American Idol (FOX); a deal reported worth $12 million; contract was renewed for season 11
2010 Returned to features with the romantic comedy The Back-Up Plan
Began career as a dancer in stage musicals