Jennifer garner is one amongst the most up coming actress in the Hollywood film industry. Jennifer Anne Garner was born on April 17, 1972 in Houston, Texas. Her parents were Bill - a retired chemical engineer and Pat a a retired college English teacher. Her parents always wanted Jennifer to pursue her dreams and be successful. Jennifer was raises in Charleston and was one of the three sisters. She soon became interested in learning ballet. She soon found herself
receiving a training in theatre.
After college, Garner moved to New York and began auditioning for stage roles. In 1995 she landed her first part, only a month after arriving in town, as an understudy in the Broadway production of A Month in the Country. Later that same year, Garner moved to Los Angeles, and began working in television, making her screen debut in the made-for-TV movie
Zoya. Over the next two years, Garner landed guest roles on several television shows, including Spin City and Law and Order, and small parts in several motion pictures, among them Deconstructing Harry, In Harm's Way, and Mr.
Magoo.
1998 found Garner cast as the female lead on the short-lived Fox drama Significant Others. While the show only aired for a little over a month, Garner fared much better with a showy recurring role on Felicity, where she played Hannah, the former girlfriend of Noel Crane, played by Scott Foley. While Garner claims she had to go through five rounds of auditions before she was given the role, she certainly made an impression on co-star Foley; they soon began dating, and were married in the fall of 2000.
Garner's work on Felicity helped win her a major supporting role on the television series Time of Your Life, a spin-off from Party of Five starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. The heavily promoted series was a ratings disappointment, but Garner received enthusiastic notices, and began winning film roles in high-profile projects such as Pearl Harbor and Dude, Where's My Car?
In 2000, J.J. Abrams, who produced Felicity, was preparing a new series for ABC about a female CIA agent living a triple life as a spy posing as a college student, who is posing as a bank employee. Abrams remembered Garner's impressive performance as Hannah, and cast her as Sydney Bristow in Alias. The show quickly became a success, earning respectable ratings, strong reviews, and a devoted fan following who tuned in each week to see Garner beat up bad guys and don an impressive collection of slinky outfits. That same year, Garner also appeared opposite her husband, Foley, in a supporting role in the independent drama Rennie's Landing.
In a welcome change from Jennifer's previous experiences, Alias has enjoyed respectable ratings, a strong critical reception and an extension into a second season. The program has spawned a loyal fan base and, in February of 2002, Jennifer was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama.
2001 saw Garner get back on the TV series horse, starring as a graduate student with a secret life as a spy in the ABC adventure "Alias." In 2002, she earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in A Drama Series for her role in "Alias" and expanded into feature films: She had a brief but memorable turn as a beautiful fashion model with an intriguing sideline in director Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can" (2002), then followed up in 2003 with the pivotal role of the martial artist and assassin Elektra, the enemy and lover of the Marvel Comics superhero "Daredevil" (Ben
Affleck). Promising a smooth transition from small-screen superstar to A-list actress, Garner next signed on to star in "13 Going on 30"
(lensed 2003), a sort of girl power version of "Big" in which she plays the thirty-year-old transformation of an awkward teenage girl.
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