Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) sees dead people – spirits who can’t cross over because they have unresolved personal issues. She talks to them too, and to their family, acting as a sort of spiritual social worker. This power, passed down from her grandmother (June Squibb) and mother (Anne Archer), is both Melinda’s gift and her curse. 

Jennifer Love Hewitt is a rarity in Hollywood: a child star who transitioned to adult roles and has remained stable and successful for more than 30 years.

After experiencing 1990s superstardom on TV in Party Of Five and in movies like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Can’t Hardly Wait, Hewitt suffered career setbacks in the early 2000s. But just when it looked like her greatest success might be behind her, she landed the role for which many viewers know her best: medium Melinda Gordon in Ghost Whisperer.

“You and your grandmother are the only ones here who can see me,” a dead man says to nine-year-old Melinda Gordon (Grace Fulton) in a funeral parlor. “Will you help me?