Acting career

After appearing on the television series The Bernie Mac Show and American Dreams, JoJo was cast opposite Emma Roberts and Sara Paxton in Aquamarine, playing Hailey, one of two teenage girls who discover a mermaid. The film opened on March 3, 2006 and performed mediocre at the domestic box office, opening at number five with $7.5 million. Her next film, RV, a comedy starring Robin Williams, was released on April 28, 2006. It opened at number one and grossed $69.7 million. JoJo had to audition for the part five times, and eventually replaced an actress who had already been cast in the role.

JoJo had not had any professional acting training before being cast in the roles, but was given an acting coach on the set of Aquamarine. She will be billed as "Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque" in her film roles, but will still be credited as simply "JoJo" for her music work.

JoJo was offered the role of the title character of Disney Channel's Hannah Montana, but turned it down because of her hectic schedule.

JoJo's music will remain her main focus, as she has stated that she prefers singing to acting.

On August 28th, in an interview with BOP and Tiger Beat online, JoJo stated that she is in the planning stages for a new movie project which she can't reveal too much of but will reveal all soon. On September 10th, JoJo announced that she will be traveling to Toronto to film her next role in a small screen adaption of Lola Douglas' "True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet", to air on Lifetime television. She also said that she wants to tour in Canada, Brazil and Egypt.

in September, JoJo stated on her MySpace page that she will start filming a film called Confessions of a Teenage Starlet in October through the first week of November.