Biography
Jessica Marie Alba was born on April 28, 1981, in Pomona, California, to Catherine Alba (née Jensen) and Mark Alba. Her mother is of Danish and French Canadian descent, and her father of Mexican American descent (though both his parents were born in California). She has a younger brother Joshua. Alba was raised in an Air Force family, and her father's air force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi, and Del Rio, Texas before settling back in California when she was nine years old.
jessica alba in flipper
Despite constantly moving across the U.S., Jessica Alba knew she wanted to be an actress from the age of 5. Her career was ready to take off when an agent signed her a mere nine months after 12-year-old Jessica took an acting class.
Jessica Alba's first film role in the 1994 film Camp Nowhere came to her by chance. She was cast with a bit part in the film after one of the characters dropped out of the production. Dark-haired Jessica was cast as the replacement, thanks to the fact that her hair matched that of the original actress.
She then ventured into smaller projects on the small screen with commercials for Nintendo and JC Penney, and a recurring role in Nickelodeon's The Secret World of Alex Mack in 1994.
Following her Nickelodeon stint, Jessica Alba, also a PADI-certified scuba diver, was cast as Maya in the 1995 series Flipper. During production of Flipper, Jessica was actually kidnapped after having received telephone threats. Thankfully, she was found unharmed in the trunk of a car.
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1998 was filled with many television show appearances, including a recurring role on the prime-time soap Beverly Hills, 90210, Brooklyn South and The Love Boat: The Next Wave.
As for film, audiences caught Jessica Alba in P.U.N.K.S. (aka Rebels), Never Been Kissed, costarring Drew Barrymore, and Idle Hands, costarring Vivica Fox.
jessica alba is dark angel
With Jessica Alba's growing popularity on the internet after her role in Flipper, along with her exotic looks (Jessica's ethnic background consists of Danish, French and Mexican), it's no wonder that James Cameron cast her as the lead role in his television series Dark Angel. These traits, of course, are bonuses next to the fact that she can act.
Jessica Alba has been featured in Teen Magazine and Vanity Fair, and was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2001 for Best Actress in a Dramatic Television Series.
After a long engagement to her older costar Michael Weatherly (Logan on Dark Angel) from 2001 to 2003, Jessica Alba was spotted with Mark Wahlberg and even made a cameo on Wahlberg's show Entourage in 2004.
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The L'Oreal model (Jessica Alba is a Feria hair color spokesperson) returned to the scene with the title role in 2003's Honey. No one can forget the incredibly sexy moves Miss Alba learned for her role in the dance-centric flick. After her role as stripper Nancy Callahan in 2005's Sin City, Jessica Alba was seen in Into the Blue (2005) with Paul Walker and Ashley Scott. She also played the classic Marvel Comics character Sue Storm (the Invisible Woman) in the movie Fantastic Four (2005).
Personal life
Alba was raised as a Roman Catholic and still considers herself "spiritual". In her adolescence, she became a born-again Christian, but left the church after four years because she felt she was being judged for her appearance, explaining:
“Older men would hit on me, and my youth pastor said it was because I was wearing provocative clothing, when I wasn't. It just made me feel like if I was in any way desirable to the opposite sex that it was my fault, and it made me ashamed of my body and being a woman".
Alba also had objections to the church's condemnations of premarital sex and homosexuality, and the lack of strong female role models in the Bible, explaining "I thought it was a nice guide, but it certainly wasn't how I was going to live my life." However, she has stated that she still holds her belief in God despite leaving the church.
As the daughter of religiously conservative parents, Alba, whose grandparents did not allow her to wear a bathing suit around the house, maintains a no-nudity clause in her contract, though she has claimed she had been open to the possibility of appearing nude in Sin City. She remarked of a GQ shoot in which she was scantily clad, "They didn't want me to wear the granny panties, but I said, 'If I'm gonna be topless I need to wear granny panties."
Alba was given the option to appear nude by the film's directors, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, but declined the offer saying, "I don't do nudity. I just don't. Maybe that makes me a bad actress. Maybe I won't get hired in some things. But I have too much anxiety". Alba at the Fantastic Four premiere in London 2007.
While filming Dark Angel, Alba began a four year romance with fellow castmate Michael Weatherly, which caused controversy due to their 12 year age gap. He proposed to her on her twentieth birthday. They eventually broke up after a four-year relationship. In July 2007, Jessica spoke out about the break up. "I don't know [why I got engaged]. I was a virgin. He was 12 years older than me. I thought he knew better. My parents weren't happy. They're really religious. They believe God wouldn't allow the Bible to be written if it wasn't what they are supposed to believe. I'm completely different."
Alba had at one time said she envisioned a much older man as her ideal partner, making references to Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, and Michael Caine. "I have this thing for older men. They've been around and know so much." Regarding children, Alba said, "I'm really girly when it comes to kids. I've been surrounded by kids my whole life because I'm the oldest of 15 cousins — I've been changing diapers since I was six. I want to have a couple, for sure".
Alba married Cash Warren (son of actor Michael Warren) on Monday, May 19, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. Alba met Warren while making Fantastic Four in 2004. On June 7, 2008, Alba gave birth to a baby girl, Honor Marie Warren, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.The first pictures of Honor Marie will appear in OK! magazine, which paid a reported $1.5 million for them.
Alba's charity work includes participation with Clothes Off Our Back, Habitat for Humanity, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Project HOME, RADD, Revlon Run/Walk for Women, SOS Children Villages, Soles4Souls, and Step up. Alba supports Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. elections.
In 2007, Jessica Alba showed off her funny side in Good Luck Chuck, starring Dane Cook. That same year she also appeared in Awake, The Ten, and Fantastic Four: The Rise Of The Silver Surfer.
Jessica Alba made Maxim's Hot 100 list for the fifth time, and FHM named her 2007's Sexiest Woman in the World. So it's no wonder she also came in at No. 5 on AskMen.com's Top 99 of 2008.
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Also in 2008, aside from starring in The Eye and The Love Guru, Jessica Alba announced her pregnancy of her first child with long-time boyfriend, producer Cash Warren. The couple secretly got married in May of that year in a private ceremony that even the paparazzi didn't know about.
In 2008, she appeared in the flick Meet Bill. She and Cash Warren had a little girl in June and named her Honor Marie Warren.
Awards and nominations
Alba receiving an award at the Spike TV Awards
Alba receiving an award at the Spike TV Awards
ALMA Awards
* Won: Breakthrough Actress of the Year (2001)
TV Land Awards
* Nominated: Little Screen/Big Screen Star (Women) (2007)
Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards
* Won: Hottest Jessica (2007)
Young Hollywood Awards
* Won: Superstar of Tomorrow (2005)
Kids Choice Awards
* Won: Best Movie Actress for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as Susan Storm (2008)
Premios Juventud
* Nominated: "Actríz que se roba la pantalla" for: Awake, Good Luck Chuck, Fantastic Four and The Eye (2008).
Jessica Alba continued to add to her resume as she reprised her role in the long-awaited Sin City 2 (2009).
Jessica Alba poses for UK's GQ magazine (August 2007)
Jessica Alba is attracted to intelligent men.
The 'Sin City' actress - who is currently dating movie producer Cash Warren - insists the first thing she looks for in a guy is brains not good looks. She told GQ magazine: "I don't really have a type as such. Intelligence, kindness, a sense of humour - that's kind of it for me. "I don't really care that much about the physical. I see all the pretty boys I want when I'm working. I'd much rather have a great conversation with someone. "Jessica, 26, has also taken a swipe at her fellow actors, insisting many Hollywood stars take themselves too seriously.
