Jennifer Lopez

American singer, dancer, actress, and producer

Jennifer Lopez is an American singer, dancer, actress, and producer. The NYC native began her career as a backup dancer for Janet Jackson and a Fly Girl on In Living Color. Her breakthrough moment came when she starred as "Queen of Tejano Music" Selena in the 1997 film of the same name, as well as standout roles in Anaconda and Out of Sight opposite George Clooney.

In 1999, she released her debut album On The 6—featuring her No. 1 breakout single If You Had My Love, as well as the hits Waiting For Tonight and Let’s Get Loud—and, two years later, she became the first woman to have a No. 1 album and movie at the same time with her sophomore album J. Lo and the comedy The Wedding Planner, in which she co-starred with Matthew McConaughey. She went on to star in more notable movies including Main in Manhattan, Shall We Dance?, Monster-in-Law, The Back-Up Plan, Marry Me, Hustlers, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, and she voiced Shira in the animated films Ice Age: Continental Drift and Ice Age: Collision Course.

As a musician, she has sold more than 80 million albums, including This Is Me...Then (2002), Rebirth (2005), and 2007’s Como Ama uni Mujer, the best-selling debut album by an artist in Spanish. She served as a judge on American Idol from 2011 to 2016 and World of Dance from 2017 to 2020, and, in 2024, she appeared in the concert special Apple Music Live: Jennifer Lopez and hosted Apple Music’s This Is Me...Now Radio with Jennifer Lopez.

Lopez also starred in and produced the television series Shades of Blue and produced Good Trouble and The Fosters, and she headlined the Super Bowl Halftime Show with Shakira in 2020.