Actress and pop singer. Born
July 24, 1970, in the Bronx, New York. Lopez began her career
as a dancer, appearing in stage musicals and various music
videos. In 1990, she won a national competition and earned
a spot dancing on the popular Fox comedy television series,
“In Living Color,” as one of the “Fly Girls.”
A series of small acting jobs followed, including parts in
two more series and a TV movie, Nurses on the Line: The Crash
of Flight 7, in 1993. Lopez’s first feature film was
the critically acclaimed Mi Familia, or My Family, in 1995.
She also appeared in Money Train (1995), opposite Wesley Snipes
and Woody Harrelson, and in Jack (1996), directed by Francis
Ford Coppola and starring Robin Williams.
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 Quintillana Perez, who was killed by a crazed
fan in 1995. She earned widespread praise for her performance,
including a Golden Globe nomination, and became the highest-paid
Latina actress in history with her paycheck of $1 million.
That same year, Lopez starred in the forgettable Anaconda
and in Blood and Wine, opposite Jack Nicholson. Her role as
federal marshal Karen Sisco in Steven Soderbergh’s Out
of Sight, a film based on the Elmore Leonard novel and co-starring
George Clooney, further enhanced her image as a bankable movie
star.
Lopez’s musical career
also began to take off, as she released her debut Latin pop
album, On the 6 in June 1999. The album, fueled by the success
of her hit single, “If You Had My Love,” went platinum
within two weeks, making Lopez—along with Ricky Martin—one
of the most influential examples of the growing Latin cultural
influence in pop music....
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