Jessica Alba Biography
Jessica Alba
Jessica Marie Alba(born April 28, 1981 in Pomona, California, USA) is an American actress. Jessica Alba is known for Jessica Alba's roles in movies such as Idle Hands, and Jessica Alba's starring role in the TV series Dark Angel. Jessica Alba got Jessica Alba's first starring movie role in Honey, and went on to appear in prominent roles in Sin City and Fantastic Four.
Early life
Alba was born to Mark Alba (a Mexican mestizo of Spanish and Native Mexican descent) and Cathy Jensen (whose father was Danish and whose Canadian mother was of French, Italian and English descent). Alba was raised in a military family, living with Jessica Alba's parents, Jessica Alba's brother Joshua, and Jessica Alba's grandparents until Jessica Alba was sixteen. Jessica Alba grew up a sports fanatic and terrorized teachers and grandparents alike with Jessica Alba's rebellious behavior. Jessica Alba's father's navy career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi, and Del Rio, Texas, before they settled back in California when Jessica Alba was nine. Alba's early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies, as Jessica Alba suffered collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 times a year, and suffered a burst appendix, a cyst on Jessica Alba's tonsils, asthma, anorexia, and a kidney infection. This served to isolate Jessica Alba's from other children at school because, as Jessica Alba claims, Jessica Alba was in the hospital so often that no one knew Jessica Alba's well enough to befriend her. Jessica Alba also revealed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that Jessica Alba suffered from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as a child. Jessica Alba's health improved, however, when Jessica Alba's family moved to California.
Acting career
Jessica Alba on The Tonight Show with Jay LenoAlba had expressed interest in becoming an actress since the age of five, took Jessica Alba's first acting class at age twelve, and was signed by an agent nine months later.
Alba's first appearance in film was a small role in the 1994 feature Camp Nowhere, as Gail. Jessica Alba was originally hired for two weeks but Jessica Alba's role soon turned into a two month job when the actress in one of the more prominent roles in the film dropped out, and Alba was picked to replace Jessica Alba's because Jessica Alba's hair matched that of the original actress.
Alba appeared in two national TV commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney, and later was featured in several independent films. Jessica Alba branched out into TV in 1994 with a recurring role as insufferable young snob Jessica in three episodes of the popular Nickelodeon comedy series The Secret World of Alex Mack. Jessica Alba then won the role of Maya in the first two seasons of the TV series Flipper. Under the tutelage of Jessica Alba's lifeguard mother, Alba had learned to swim before Jessica Alba could walk, and was a PADI-certified scuba diver, skills which were put to good use on the show, which was filmed in Australia. In 1995 Jessica Alba appeared in the film Venus Rising as Young Eve.
After graduating from high school at age sixteen, Alba studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, at the Atlantic Theater Company, which was developed by Macy and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and film director David Mamet.
In 1998 Jessica Alba appeared as Melissa Hauer in a first-season episode of the Steven Bochco crime-drama Brooklyn South, as Leanne in two episodes of Beverly Hills 90210, and as Layla in an episode of The Love Boat: The Next Wave. In 1999 Jessica Alba appeared in the Randy Quaid comedy feature P.U.N.K.S..
Alba rose to greater prominence in Hollywood in 1999 after appearing as a member of a snobby high school clique in the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, and as the female lead in the 1999 comedy-horror film Idle Hands, opposite Devon Sawa. Jessica Alba's big break may have been as the star of the popular Fox sci-fi TV series Dark Angel, which was co-created by writer/director James Cameron, who picked Alba from a pool of 1,200 candidates for the role of genetically-engineered super soldier Max Guevera. The show ran for two seasons before being cancelled in 2002. Since then Jessica Alba's most notable roles have been as an aspiring dancer/choreographer in Honey, the stripper Nancy Callahan in Sin City, and as the classic Marvel Comics character Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four.
Alba's most serious award nomination to date is that of a Golden Globe for "Lead Actress in a Drama Series" during the first season of Dark Angel. Jessica Alba did not win.
Jessica Alba has stated that despite being an extremely ambitious actress who desires the level of fame enjoyed by stars like Tom Cruise, Jessica Alba once told James Cameron during filming on Dark Angel that Jessica Alba did not want to direct because it appeared to be too difficult an undertaking, but that Jessica Alba responded with the prediction that Jessica Alba would end up directing sooner than Jessica Alba expected.
Personal life
Alba was engaged to Jessica Alba's Dark Angel co-star Michael Weatherly for a year. In January 2005 Jessica Alba began dating Cash Warren, a director's assistant on Fantastic Four, whom Jessica Alba met when filming that movie.
Regarding children, Jessica has stated:
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.
Jessica Alba announced on the UK teen site "Teen Today" in 2005, prior to the birth of Jessica Alba's brother's child, that Jessica Alba was beginning a children's clothing line:
"About four of my girlfriends have babies so they have no time for me. I figure if I can do baby clothes maybe they'll have more time to hang out!"
Jessica Alba is a self-professed animal lover (although Jessica Alba dislikes reptiles and rodents) who owns two pugs named Sid and Nancy.
Religion
During an interview with GQ magazine, Alba said that in Jessica Alba's teen years Jessica Alba became a born-again Christian in rebellion against Jessica Alba's parents, but later abandoned this. Jessica Alba explained:
One of the reasons why I chose not to be (a devout Christian) is because a lot of people gave me a lot of grief for just being a woman and made me feel ashamed for having a body because it tempted men. I didn't understand what that meant because I was like, 'God created this...' That was a hard time in my life.
As the daughter of conservative parents, Alba, whose grandparents did not even allow Jessica Alba's to wear a bathing suit around the house, maintains a no-nudity clause in Jessica Alba's contract, though Jessica Alba has claimed Jessica Alba had been willing to be nude in Sin City. Jessica Alba remarked of a GQ shoot in which Jessica Alba 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."
Trivia
Jessica Alba's brother Joshua appeared with Jessica Alba's in "And Jesus Brought a Casserole," the first season finale of Dark Angel, in which Jessica Alba played Krit, one of Jessica Alba's X-5 brothers who wanted to help destroy Manticore.
Jessica Alba has a tattoo of a daisy with a ladybug on it on the back of Jessica Alba's neck, and one of a butterfly just above Jessica Alba's anal cleft. [3]
According to an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Jessica Alba's measurements are 34-24-34. [4]
Jessica Alba revealed that Jessica Alba envisions a much older man as Jessica Alba's ideal partner, having stated, "Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, Michael Caine I have this thing for older men. They've been around and know so much." [5]
Jessica is presently Tiger Beer's new face in commercials.
Filmography
Camp Nowhere (1994)
Venus Rising (1995)
Flipper (cast member from 1995-1996) (TV series)
Too Soon for Jeff (1996) (TV series)
P.U.N.K.S. (1999)
Never Been Kissed (1999)
Idle Hands (1999)
Paranoid (2000)
Dark Angel (2000-2002) (TV series)
The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
Honey (2003)
Sin City (2005)
Fantastic Four (2005)
Into the Blue (2005)
A Dream of Color in Black and White (2005) (currently in post-production)
Sonic (2006) (currently announced start of production) (also executive producer)
Jessica Alba - Latest News
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Movies Jessica Alba has stared in:
Jessica Alba has stared in Cousin Bette
Jessica Alba has stared in Dudley Do-right
Jessica Alba has stared in Election
Jessica Alba has stared in I'll Be Home For Christmas
Jessica Alba has stared in Kissing Jessica Stein
Jessica Alba has stared in Lost and Delirious
Jessica Alba has stared in Price of Milk
Jessica Alba has stared in State and Main
Jessica Alba has stared in Summer Catch
Jessica Alba has stared in The Gift
Jessica Alba has stared in The In Crowd
Jessica Alba has stared in Price of Milk
Jessica Alba has stared in Titus
Some Films Jessica Alba has stared in:
Jessica Alba has stared in A Moment of Innocence
Jessica Alba has stared in Bread and Tulips
Jessica Alba has stared in Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Jessica Alba has stared in Eternity and a Day
Jessica Alba has stared in Goya in Bordeaux
Jessica Alba has stared in Kandahar
Jessica Alba has stared in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Jessica Alba has stared in The Silence
Jessica Alba Related Quotes
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. by Browne, Thomas
Another Jessica Alba Related Quote
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. by Carlyle, Thomas
Yet Another Jessica Alba Related Quote
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. by Cicero
And our last Jessica Alba Related Quote
All animals but men know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it -and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow it. by Butler, Samuel
Jessica Alba News
Jessica Alba - Albas Desperate For More Children (ContactMusic)
New mother JESSICA ALBA is keen to extend her family - just months after giving birth to her first child HONOR MARIE. The Sin City star and husband Cash Warren welcomed ...
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Jessica Alba: "Cash and I Have Been Glued to the Olympics!" (US Weekly)
Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren can't get enough of the Olympics. "I don't know about you all but Cash and I have been glued to the Olympics," she wrote in a blog post titled "What an Amazing Opening Ceremony!" on MySpace. "How amazing was the opening ceremony?!?" she continued. "I still don't know how they coordinated 2008 people to move in perfect sync." See photos of Olympics hunks. ...
Read more: Jessica Alba: "Cash and I Have Been Glued to the Olympics!" (US Weekly)
Alba Hooked on the Olympics (Teen Hollywood)
Actress Jessica Alba has become such an Olympics fan she has taken to reporting on it in cyberspace.
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Jessica Alba addicted to watching Olympic games (New Kerala)
London, Aug 13 : Actress Jessica Alba has become a huge fan of the Olympics and says she and her boyfriend Cash Warren are glued to the TV screen ever since it has started.
Read more: Jessica Alba addicted to watching Olympic games (New Kerala)
Jessica Alba - Alba Hooked On The Olympics (ContactMusic)
Actress JESSICA ALBA has become such an Olympics fan she has taken to reporting on it in cyberspace. The new mum admits she can't get enough Olympic action as America ...
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Alba catches Olympics fever! (New Kerala)
Washington, Aug 13 : New mum Jessica Alba is so much in love with the ongoing Olympics Games, that she has started writing about them in her blog.
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Abc - Ugly Betty Wins Big At Alma Awards (ContactMusic)
U.S. TV hit UGLY BETTY was the big winner at this year's (08) ALMA awards - scooping four of the ceremony's most prestigious gongs. The ALMA Awards, which took place ...
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Ley to make English theatre debut (The New Straits Times)
Teen star Ley Shahrwind Agilan believes in being versatile, writes DENNIS CHUA. HAVING starred as the son of a villain in popular police television series Gerak Khas, 17-year-old Ley Shahrwind Agilan is looking forward to playing the offspring of a hero in the aptly titled play Hero from Aug 27-31.
Read more: Ley to make English theatre debut (The New Straits Times)
Ley to make English theatre debut (The New Straits Times)
Teen star Ley Shahrwind Agilan believes in being versatile, writes DENNIS CHUA.
Read more: Ley to make English theatre debut (The New Straits Times)
Actress Names Newborn Daughter "Birdie" (US Weekly)
And you thought "Apple" was weird. Actress Busy Philipps and her screenwriter-husband Marc Silverstein are the latest celebs to choose a bizarre name for their baby. On Thursday, they announced they will call their newborn daughter "Birdie." (Birdie Leigh Silverstein was born Wednesday, weighing in at 9 lbs., 7 oz., according to E! News. Philipps is godmother to Michelle Williams' ...
Read more: Actress Names Newborn Daughter "Birdie" (US Weekly)
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