Differentiating The Jennifers

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Jennifer Lawrence

Born: 1990

Notable For: Starring in The Hunger Games; Oscar nominee.

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Jennifer Hudson

Born: 1981

Notable For: Winning an Oscar for Dreamgirls, making it far on American Idol.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt

Born: 1979
Notable For: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Ghost Whisperer, Party Of Five, Can't Hardly Wait.


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Jennifer Garner

Born: 1972
Notable For: Alias, 13 Going On 30, Daredevil, Pearl Harbor

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Jennifer Connelly

Born: 1970
Notable For: Requiem For A Dream, House Of Sand And Fog, Hulk; playing Sarah in Labyrinth; winning an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind.

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Jennifer Lopez

Born: 1969

Notable For: Singing career; acting career: Maid In Manhattan, The Wedding Planner, The Back-Up Plan

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Jennifer Aniston

Born: 1969
Notable For: Friends, Marley & Me, Bruce Almighty, She's The One

Famous For: "Rachel Haircut" of 1996, being temporarily married to Brad Pitt.

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Jennifer Ehle

Born: 1969

Notable For: Her role as Elizabeth Bennett in the epic Pride & Prejudice alongside the legendary Colin Firth; winning multiple Tony awards.

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Jennifer Beals

Born: 1963
Notable For: Flashdance, The L Word

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Jennifer Jason Leigh

Born: 1962

Notable For: Road To Perdition, Backdraft, Fast Times At Ridgemont High

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Jennifer Coolidge

Born: 1961

Notable For: Comedic actress who has appeared in the Legally Blonde films, Best In Show, Austenland, and many more. In 2022 she won a Golden Glome and an Emmy for her work on the series White Lotus.

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Jennifer Grey

Born: 1960

Notable For: Her roles in 80's movies such as Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Jennifer Tilly

Born: 1958

Famous For: Voiceover work and acting, including an Oscar nomination for Bullets Over Broadway. Major Credits: Monsters, Inc., Family Guy (voice of Bonnie Swanson).

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Jenifer Lewis

Born: 1957

Notable For: Appearing in an absurd number of shows and movies, including Strong Medicine

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Other Notable Jennifers and Jennifer-adjacents: Jennie Garth, Jenny Agutter, Jenny Lewis, Jennifer Freeman, Jennifer Nettles, Jenny Slate

Intro

I'm always getting the Jennifers mixed up. And the Toms. And the Amys.  And don't even get me started on the Wills, Williams, and Willems.  Darn you actors, why can't you have unusual first names?  Why couldn't your parents have named you things like Xerxes or Hezekiah?  Why do you insist on confusing me so?

I started this project because I was tired of getting celebrities with similar names mixed up in my brain.  I thought cataloging them might help.  Plus it's kind of cool to see how many celebrities actually share same first (or last) name. 

Feel free to suggest celebrity names I should post about -- but don't give me too much grief if I forget somebody.  There's only so much time in the world, and I can only do my best.