🎭 Career Highlights
🎬 Movies
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"I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997) – Breakout role as Julie James in this teen horror hit and its sequel.
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"Can't Hardly Wait" (1998) – Popular teen romantic comedy.
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"Heartbreakers" (2001) – Starred with Sigourney Weaver in this con-artist comedy.
📺 TV Shows
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"Party of Five" (1995–1999) – Played Sarah Reeves Merrin; helped launch her into stardom.
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"Ghost Whisperer" (2005–2010) – Played Melinda Gordon, a woman who can communicate with the dead. One of her biggest TV successes.
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"The Client List" (2012–2013) – Starred and produced; based on her 2010 Lifetime movie of the same name.
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"9-1-1" (2018–present) – Plays Maddie Buckley on this hit Fox drama.
🎤 Music Career
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Released several pop albums, especially popular in Japan in the 1990s.
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Best-known single: “How Do I Deal” (from I Still Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack).
❤️ Personal Life
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Born: February 21, 1979, in Waco, Texas.
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Married to actor Brian Hallisay (her co-star from The Client List).
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They have three children together.
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Known for stepping back from Hollywood at times to focus on family.
🧁 Fun Facts
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Started in commercials and Disney’s “Kids Incorporated.”
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Once named among the Sexiest Women in the World by Maxim and FHM.
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Passionate about charity work, especially with children’s hospitals.