 | My Little Girl (1986)
Role: Myra
Mary Stuart Masterson's first starring film, and Jennifer Lopez' first film (she played her best friend, but not easy to recognize). |
 | Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (1993)
Role: Rosie Romero
This book really teaches you the struggles to J.Lo's success. You realize a lot of things that happened to Jennifer through-out her life. But, most importantly, you see, that it hasn't been all peaches and cream for J.LO. She struggled to get were she is, and, i deeply admire her for that. |
 | My Family/Mi Familia (1995)
Role: María Sánchez
The film tracks three generations of a Mexican-American family that emigrated from Mexico and settled in East Los Angeles.
The film begins with the father of the family, Jose Sanchez (Jacob Vargas), making a journey that lasts one year on foot from Mexico to Los Angeles. He travels to Los Angeles to meet a very old man known as El Californio, who was born in Los Angeles when it was still part of Mexico. On his tombstone El Californio wants it written, And where I lie, it is still Mexico. This gives audiences the point-of-view of the story. |
 | Money Train (1995)
Role: Grace Santiago
Money Train (1995) is a movie starring Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson and Jennifer Lopez in one of her first roles before she became an accomplished actress and singer. The three work as New York City transit cops. After losing his job, Harrelson's character plots to hijack and then rob the "money train" which hauls collected fare revenues for the New York City subway from the system's stations. |
 | Jack (1995)
Role: Miss Márquez
Jack is a 1996 film starring Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Brian Kerwin, Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher, and Bill Cosby, and was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Williams plays the role of Jack Powell, a boy who ages four times faster than normal, somewhat similar to Werner syndrome.
The movie ends with a very elder-looking Jack and his four best friends graduating high school. As Jack walks back from his valedictorian speech, he tells his mother that he is off to a party and enters a Mustang and drives off. |
 | Blood and Wine (1997)
Role: Gabriela / Gabby
Blood and Wine is a 1996 crime drama / black comedy film directed by Bob Rafelson and screenplay written by Nick Villiers and Alison Cross. It stars Jack Nicholson, Jennifer Lopez, Stephen Dorff and Michael Caine. To date, it is the most recent collaboration between Nicholson and Five Easy Pieces director Rafelson.
Alex Gates (Nicholson) a Miami-area wine merchant is heavily in debt, and he can't get along with his alcoholic wife (Davis) or his stepson (Dorff). He decides to steal an expensive necklace with his mistress and illegal immigrant Gabby (Lopez) and an aging criminal (Caine). But things start to fall apart when his wife finds out and gets involved. |
 | Selena (1997)
Role: Selena Quintanilla-Pérez
Selena is a 1997 biopic about the life and career of Tejana singer Selena Quintanilla Perez (1971-1995). Selena was a Grammy Award-winning recording artist who was well known in the United States Mexican-American and other Latino communities, and Mexico.
Music industry executives believed Selena was ready to cross-over into mainstream popularity on the U.S. pop charts when she was murdered on March 31, 1995 by the president of her fan club.
The film was directed by Oscar nominated filmmaker Gregory Nava and featured Jennifer Lopez as Selena. Her father, Abraham Quintanilla, Jr., was played by Edward James Olmos and Constance Marie played Selena's mother. |
 | Anaconda (1997)
Role: Terri Flores
Shooting a documentary about a long-lost Indian tribe on the Amazon River, director Terri Flores (Lopez) and members of her crew including cameraman Danny Rich (Ice Cube) and Professor Steven Cale (Stoltz) come across stranded snake hunter Paul Sarone (Voight) and help him, believing he knows how to find the tribe they're searching for, but Sarone acts strangely and the crew suspect something. When Cale is incapacitated after a malfunction with his scuba gear (leaving him unconscious for nearly the rest of the film), Sarone takes command of the boat...and the crew. They are then forced to help him achieve his true objective; hunting down and capturing a record-breaking Green Anaconda he had been tracking. During the process, several members of the crew are killed before the snake itself is shot dead and Sarone incapacitated. Later on, Terri and Danny, the two surviving members of the crew, are captured when Sarone catches up to them and then used as bait in an attempt to capture a second, larger Anaconda. The two escape, and Sarone himself is then killed by his quarry before the snake is finally slain. Afterwards, the two survivors of the expedition finally locate the natives they were originally searching for and begin filming their documentary as the movie ends. |
 | U Turn (1997)
Role: Grace McKenna
U Turn is a 1997 film directed by Oliver Stone, based on the book Stray Dogs by John Ridley. It stars Sean Penn, Billy Bob Thornton, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Powers Boothe, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes and Nick Nolte.
The plot concerns a drifter (Penn) who ends up entangled in a plot involving a woman (Lopez) and her husband (Nolte), also finding himself in conflict with the town mechanic (Thornton).
Roger Ebert gave the film 1 1/2 stars, deeming it a repetitive, pointless exercise in genre filmmaking--the kind of film where you distract yourself by making a list of the sources. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that it demonstrates a filmmaker in complete command of his craft and with little control over his impulses.
Sean Penn's role was at one point going to be played by Bill Paxton.
Sean Penn, Joaquin Phoenix and Claire Danes would later reunite for the 2003 film It's All About Love. |
 | Out of Sight (1998)
Role: Karen Sisco
Out of Sight is a 1998 Academy Award-nominated movie directed by Steven Soderbergh and based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It was the first of several collaborations between Soderbergh and star George Clooney. The film was released on June 26, 1998.
Other cast members include Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn, Dennis Farina, and Albert Brooks, as well as Soderbergh regulars Don Cheadle, Luis Guzmán, and Catherine Keener. In addition, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Keaton both have cameos, with Keaton playing the same character he portrays in the movie Jackie Brown (which stars Jackson), based on Leonard’s novel Rum Punch. |
 | Antz (1998)
Role: Aztecabr>
Antz is a computer-animated film produced by DreamWorks. It features the voices of well-known actors such as Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken, and Danny Glover as various members of an ant society. Some of the main characters share facial similarities with the actors who voice them. |
 | The Cell (2000)
Role: Catherine Deane
Child psychologist Catherine Deane (Lopez) is an expert in an experimental treatment for coma patients. This involves wearing a virtual reality suit and complete sensory immersion within the minds of her patients in order to coax them out of their coma. Here, she can meet and communicate with them in dream-like sequences. When the serial killer Carl Rudolph Stargher, played by Vincent D'Onofrio, falls into a coma before revealing to police where his last abductee is located, Catherine ventures into his mind to find the answer before it is too late. The story begins inside a little boy's mind with Catherine, dressed in a white gown riding a black horse, in a desert to meet with him. |
 | The Wedding Planner (2001)
Role: Mary Fiore
Lopez plays a wedding planner, Maria 'Mary' Fiore, (Lopez) who is too consumed with planning others' events to worry about her personal life until her life is saved by Dr. Steve Edison (McConaughey).
Fiore and Edison spend a wonderful evening in the park, watching an old movie, dancing and nearly kissing before being interrupted by an untimely rain shower. After glowing to her friends that she had finally found a man that she likes, she soon learns that Edison is engaged to her biggest client Fran Donolly (Wilson).
After the revelation, Fiore is reunited with a childhood friend Massimo (Chambers) who asks Fiore to marry him; after a little persuasion, she says yes. Fiore reaches the altar with Massimo, but their wedding is halted by her father who knows she is not truly in love with Massimo. Meanwhile, Donolly and Edison's wedding fails (due to their own doubts about marriage) and Edison rushes to city hall to try to stop Fiore and Massimo's wedding himself. With help from Massimo, Edison finds Fiore and asks her to dance at the park where they first fell in love. |
 | Angel Eyes (2001)
Role: Sharon Pogue
Sharon Pogue (played by Lopez) is a Chicago police officer who keeps a man alive after a traffic accident.
A year later while chasing the suspect of a drive-by, the suspect pulls a gun on her. Just as the would-be murderer is about to fire, a mysterious man named Catch (played by Caviezel) saves her. As they develop a relationship, both have personal problems they have to deal with: Sharon has been estranged from her family and the rest of society for years, and Catch is regarded by most as strange or dangerous. He has a solitary existence and delivers groceries to a disabled woman twice a week.
Catch is, in fact, a fake name of Steven Lambert, the man Sharon saved. However, neither he nor Sharon recognize each other. Steven is still suffering from the accident. He thinks he caused his wife's and son's deaths, since he was driving at the time. At the same time, Sharon is also suffering; and she reaches a crisis point after she learns that her parents Josephine (played by Braga) and Carl (played by Argo) are planning a party to celebrate the renewal of their wedding vows.
Both need to deal with their past if they are to move on with their lives, even if it means losing each other in the process. |
 | Enough (2002)
Role: Slim Hiller
Enough is a 2002 Hollywood psychological thriller. It stars Jennifer Lopez as Slim, a young waitress who one day finds the man of her dreams in the diner where she works. A few years later, they have a young daughter, Gracie (Tessa Allen), and it is revealed that her perfect husband, Mitch (Billy Campbell) is abusive towards her and her daughter, and is cheating on her. |
 | Maid in Manhattan (2002)
Role: Marisa Ventura
Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez) is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son (Tyler Posey). One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall (Ralph Fiennes) meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa’s true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. |
 | Gigli (2003)
Role: Ricki
In the final version of the film, Larry Gigli (Affleck) is a lowly thug who is commanded to kidnap the mentally retarded, Baywatch-obsessed younger brother (Justin Bartha) of a powerful federal prosecutor, in an attempt to save his mobster boss from prison. The task proves to be difficult for Gigli, so Ricki (Lopez), a lesbian assassin, is sent to oversee him. |
 | Jersey Girl (2004)
Role: Gertrude Steiney
Jersey Girl is a 2004 film written and directed by Kevin Smith, and starring Ben Affleck. It was Smith's biggest-budget project to date (filmed on $35 million), but ended up underperforming at the box office while receiving many negative reviews. Only a select few prominent critics reacted favorably, while Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half out of four stars. |
 | Shall We Dance? (2004)
Role: Paulina
Shall We Dance? is an American motion picture released in 2004. It was rated PG-13 by the MPAA. It has a runtime of about 106 min. The film had a US gross of just under US$60m during its run.
It was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and Chicago.
The film is based on a 1996 Japanese movie of the same name, produced by Masayuki Suo. It is a rather faithful remake, following the plot of the original version fairly closely. |
 | Monster-in-Law (2005)
Role: Charlotte Charlie Cantilini
Charlie Cantilini (played by Jennifer Lopez) is a dogwalker from Venice Beach, California, who meets surgeon Kevin Fields (played by Michael Vartan). Kevin asks her out, and Charlie believes that she's finally found the right man. Things start to go wrong when Kevin introduces Charlie to his mother, Viola Fields (played by Jane Fonda). Viola has recently been replaced as a newscaster for someone younger, and is in meltdown. Loathing Charlie from the outset, and fearing that she'll lose her son the same way she lost her career, she decides to destroy her son's relationship. |
 | An Unfinished Life (2005)
Role: Jean Gilkyson
Still in shock from his only son's death a decade ago, Einar (Redford) has let his ranch fall into ruin along with his marriage. Now, Einar spends his days caring only for his hired handyman and last trusted friend, Mitch (Freeman), who was gravely injured in an encounter with a grizzly bear. Einar intends to live out his days in this heartbroken solitude--until the very person he blames for his son's accident comes to town: his daughter-in-law Jean (Lopez). Jean shows up broke and on the run with a girl named Griff, who she swears is the granddaughter Einar never knew he had. Suddenly, Einar's quiet life is turned upside down as anger and accusations resurface. But slowly and miraculously, 11 year-old Griff's curiosity about Western life--as well as her longing for a family and a father figure--begin to chip away at the stone that has become Einar's heart, opening up the way for unexpected connection, adventure, mercy and true reunion. |
 | Bordertown (2007)
Role: Lauren Fredericks
Opening Title Graphic: Explains that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the US border. They hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours and for little money in order to produce mass quantity products.
Lauren Fredericks (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned and sexy American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to go to the Iraq front-lines and become a war time correspondent.
Instead her editor George Morgan (Martin Sheen) assigns her to investigate a series of up to four hundred mysterious slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
Fredericks heads to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico to investigate, hoping that if she does well she'll be assigned to Iraq by Morgan.
In Juárez she meets up with Diaz (Antonio Banderas), her ex-boyfriend, who is the editor for the local newspaper El Sol de Juárez. |
 | El Cantante (2007)
Role: Puchi
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Jennifer Lopez owns a clothing line, JLO by Jennifer Lopez, whose brand has been licensed for a term by Warnaco Group. Her line includes different types of clothing for young women, including jeans, T-shirts, coats, belts, purses, and lingerie. In 2005, she launched a new clothing line called Sweetface. She is planning to launch a jewelry line, as well as an accessory line that includes hats, gloves, and scarves. Lopez has also done photoshoots to represent the Louis Vuitton Winter 2003 campaign. In January 2007, Lopez will close JLO by Jennifer Lopez and open JustSweet.
Lopez has also dabbled in the perfume industry, with her debut "Glow by J.Lo" which broke numerous records in sales. In October 2003, Lopez introduced a perfume called "Still". Before launching another completely new fragrance, she revisited 2002 "Glow" by creating a limited edition spin-off entitled "Miami Glow by J.Lo", in homage to her adopted hometown of Miami. Around the same time, Lopez came up with a "Glow" body line, which featured different body lotions and bronzers. For the Christmas season of 2005, she launched another fragrance, "Live by Jennifer Lopez". Most recently, for 2006 Valentine's Day, "Miami Glow" was replaced by yet another "Glow" spinoff – "Love at First Glow by J.Lo". Her latest fragrance is called "Live Luxe" and was released August 2006, with "Glow After Dark" following its release in January 2007. "Glow After Dark" was stated as being a unisex fragrance, but it is not. Her fragrance line enjoys global sales of more than $500 million.
