Jennifer Lopez - Blue Banner Biographies Author:Valerie Menard Jennifer Lopez has always wanted to be a star not just a dancer, singer or an actress, but all three. Her hard work and ambition have been boundless as she rose from her childhood in the Bronx to her status as the highest paid Latina actress in Hollywood. From the time she won her first major movie role in Mi Familia in 1995 to when... more » she recorded her hugely successful first album, On the 6, Jennifer has taken full advantage of every opportunity that has come her way.« less