Jewel
Best-selling singer-songwriter Jewel's career as a versatile pop, adult contemporary, and country music recording artist led to a second outlet as a television personality and outspoken activist. She was born Jewel Kilcher on May 23, 1974, and raised in rural Homer, AK, where she showed an early talent for singing and regularly accompanied her folk musician/music teacher father onstage at venues. Her musicianship was further nurtured with opera training at the famed Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, after which Jewel joined her mother in San Diego and quickly built up a local following with regular coffeehouse performances of her original material. When the bohemian young folkie became the object of a record label bidding war, she ultimately signed with Atlantic and released her 1995 debut Pieces of You which spawned mega hits "Who Will Save Your Soul?" and "You Were Meant for Me." The album spent nearly two years on the Billboard charts and sold over 12 million copies, making Jewel one of the most popular of the era's flood of guitar-wielding female singers. Despite the success of her folksy pop debut, the barely 20-year-old artist was anxious to explore wider musical territory and followed up with such diverse titles as the dance-oriented 0304, the Christmas album Joy: A Holiday Collection, and spoken word album of original poetry Night Without Armor. Jewel maintained a steady fan following into the new millennium, leveraging her celebrity to boost children's and homeless-related charities and co-founding Higher Ground for Humanity, a non-profit dedicated to making safe drinking water available in developing countries. The respected artist was also tapped to rate up-and-coming singers as a guest judge on "American Idol" (Fox, 2002-16) and served as host-turned-judge on its country music counterpart, "Nashville Star" (USA, 2003-07; NBC, 2008). Jewel joined in the reality TV adventures herself as a fearless participant in "Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race" (ABC, 2007) and "Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge" (CMT, 2007), alongside her rodeo champ husband Murray. In another successful artistic shift, Jewel made her way to number one in the Billboard Country charts with "Perfectly Clear" (2008) and followed up with a high profile presence as a contestant on "Dancing with the Stars" (ABC, 2005- ) the following year, alongside fellow competitor Murray. Jewel continued her acting career in a TV movie directed by indie cult favorite Allison Anders, the musical biopic "Ring of Fire" (2013). Jewel played June Carter Cash opposite Matt Ross as Johnny Cash and X bandleader John Doe as A.P. Carter. In July 2014, Jewel and Ty Murray announced their separation. The following year, Jewel released the album Picking Up the Pieces, a return to the folk-pop sound of her debut on the 20th anniversary of its release, and published her second memoir, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
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Filmography
Movies
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50% |
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The Mindfulness Movement |
Self, Executive Producer |
- | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Deadly Deed: A Fixer Upper Mystery |
Shannon Hughes (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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Concrete Evidence: A Fixer Upper Mystery |
Shannon Hughes (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2017 |
No Score Yet |
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Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery |
Shannon Hughes (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2017 |
33% |
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Ring of Fire | June Carter Cash (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Corporate FM | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
64% |
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Ride With the Devil | Sue Lee Shelley (Character) | $630.8K | 1999 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To Dine For With Kate Sullivan | Guest | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | Guest | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 55% | The Kelly Clarkson Show |
Music Performer, Guest |
2020-2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2012-2013 2020-2021 2023 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Music Performer | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | America's Heartland | Guest | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Can See Your Voice | Music Performer | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! |
Music Performer, Guest |
2008-2009 2011 2013 2015 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | MTV Unplugged at Home! |
Music Performer, Self |
2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Undercover Boss: Celebrity Edition | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fixer Upper Mysteries | Shannon Hughes (Character) | 2017-2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Home & Family | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Chew | Guest | 2012-2013 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dr. Oz Show | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Comedy Central Roast | Unknown (Character) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Greatest Hits | Music Performer | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Woodsongs | Music Performer | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tavis Smiley |
Music Performer, Guest |
2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The View | Music Performer | 2013 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sing-Off | Judge | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doctors | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 58% | The Voice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Revolution | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition |
Unknown (Guest Star), Host |
2010-2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Platinum Hit | Host | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | America's Got Talent | Music Performer | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lopez Tonight | Music Performer | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ace of Cakes | Self | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bonnie Hunt Show | Music Performer | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dancing With the Stars |
Music Performer, Contestant |
2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nashville Star |
Host, Judge |
2007-2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Conan O'Brien | Music Performer | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 80% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Soundstage | Music Performer | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2006 |
56% | No Score Yet | Men in Trees | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Las Vegas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 7th Heaven | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
64% | No Score Yet | The Lyon's Den | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | VH1 Storytellers | Self | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Saturday Night Live | Music Performer | 1997-1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | MTV Unplugged | Self | 1997 |