Jessica Alba
ALL ABOUT JESSICA ALBA
Full Name: Jessica Marie Alba
Date of Birth: 28 April 1981
Place of Birth: Pomona, California, USA
Tattoos: One on her neck (a flower with a lady bird), the second is on her wrist a writing and a butterfly at the tailbone (slip knot)
Piercings: Ears and bellybutton
Education: Graduated high school at age 16; attended Atlantic Theater Company
Family: Mother - Kathy Alba, Father - Mark Alba, Brother - Josh Alba
Ethnic Background: On her mother’s side: her grandfather is Danish; her grandmother is half French, English and Italian
On her Father’s side: Mexican, Indian, and Spanish
Nickname: Sky Angel
Bio:
Jessica Marie Alba was born in Pomona, California, on April 28, 1981. Jessica’s family moved to Biloxi, Mississippi while Jessica was very young. Her father, who was in the Air Force, moved the family to Del Rio, Texas, later. Eventually, the family settled in southern California when Jessica was nine. Jessica had always wanted to be an actress from the age of five. She took her first acting class at the age of 12. Shortly later, Jessica was signed by an agency.
In 1993, Jessica made her movie debut in Camp Nowhere. She was originally hired for a short time but got lucky when one of the main actresses dropped out. Jessica, who had the same color hair as the actress, eagerly took over the spot. After her first movie, Jessica appeared in two commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penny and a few independent films. In 1994, she landed a reoccurring role in “The Secret World of Alex Mac.” She played a snob who made life hard for the main character with magical powers.
Also in 1994, she landed the role of Maya for a pilot of “Flipper.” Jessica spent 1995 filming the first season of “Flipper” in Australia. Jessica is a PADI-certified diver and the “Flipper” show allowed her to have fun and play with the dolphins. The success of the first season of “Flipper” lead to the filming of the second season, which Jessica also starred in. Jessica involvement in “Flipper” lasted from 1995-1997. Since “Flipper” Jessica has appeared in a number of television shows and movies.
In 1996, Jessica appeared in Venus Rising as Young Eve. Also in 1996, she appeared in an episode of “Chicago Hope”, as Maria. In 1997, Jessica appeared on the “Dini Petty Show”, a Canadian talk show, and talked about her role in Flipper and her general acting career. She began working on P.U.N.K.S., featuring Randy Quaid, in 1998. P.U.N.K.S. was just recently released on video in early January, 1999.
In 1998, Jessica appeared in several TV shows for an episode or two. In early 1998, she appeared in “Brooklyn South”, as Melissa. A few months later, she appeared in two episodes of “Beverly Hills 90210″, as Leanne. And finally, she appeared in an episode of “Love Boat: The Next Wave.” In 1999 she appeared a huge number of magazines. She had a small role in Never Been Kissed which was released in the Spring. A month later she could be found with a larger role in Idle Hands. Her two performances in those movies started a buzz in the entertainment industry. Many more magazines would come knocking on her door. Shortly after the release of those two movies, she landed the starring role in Paranoia. She finished filming Paranoia in June. The movie is in post-production now.
Shortly later she started working on what will potentially be her biggest work ever. She auditioned for the leading role in Dark Angel. She caught the eye of James Cameron and will now star in the post anticipated TV show of 2000, Dark Angel. With the huge success of Dark Angel and its legion of fans, Jessica will no longer be a rising star, she will be among the hollywood elite, a star.
Jessica made a comeback in 2003 with the title role in Honey. In 2005 she appeared opposite Bruce Willis in the movie “Sin City”, the down-and-dirty feature-film version of Frank Miller’s popular graphic novels. Alba played Nancy, a stripper with a tortured past who’s about as close to innocence as it gets in a grisly black-and-white world.
Trivia:
Jessica is a PADI-certified scuba diver.
Jessica got her big break in Camp Nowhere because her hair matched the actress’ who’s role she got when the original actress had to pull out at the last moment.
Jessica was a tomboy growing up. She played baseball, not softball and football.
Jessica stars in the television series ‘Dark Angel.’
Training for ‘Dark Angel’ was very rigorous, including a year of daily martial arts, gymnastics, motorcycle riding and hard cardio and stretching.
It really is Jessica riding the Kawasaki 350 in her tv show.
Jessica loves Harley Davidson motorcycles.
Jessica was a “Navy brat” growing up so she lived in several different states, including California, Mississippi and Texas. She attended at least eight different schools.
When she was in the fifth grade Jessica was sent to the principal’s office for giving a boy a black eye.
Jessica was a bit of a trouble-maker growing up. Her teachers didn’t like her because she was a “smarty-pants.” She says she wouldn’t even call them “Mr. or Mrs. because were just people.”
Jessica used to get served wine when she was 12 years old.
She has a habit of twirling her hair in her fingers.
Jessica loves to cook. Her specialty is chicken enchiladas and homemade tortillas.
Jessica has a very diverse ancestry. Her mother is French/Danish and her father is Spanish.
She loves to dance to any music with groove. “Jazz, blues, hip-hop, jungle, I like it all. I love dancing, but it’s hard to go to a club if you don’t have a fake ID. Unless you want to play the celebrity card, and that kind-of bums me out,” Jessica said.
Quotes:
“I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss”.
“I’m good at being sarcastic with guys. They don’t want the quiet, prissy little things.”
“I’ve got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.”
“Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job, but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.”
“Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.”
“My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you’re doing.”
“There’s no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there’d be no challenge. Also, you’d feel inferior.”
“Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job, but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.”
Filmography:
Jessica Alba Filmography as an Actress:
2007 Bill
2007 The Ten
2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007 Good Luck Chuck
2007 Awake
2007 The Eye
2005 Sin City
2005 Fantastic Four
2005 Into the Blue
2004 Entourage: The Review
2003 Honey
2002 The Sleeping Dictionary
2001 Dark Angel: Season 02
2000 Dark Angel: Season 01
2000 Paranoid
1999 Idle Hands
1999 Never Been Kissed
1999 P.U.N.K.S.
Television
young age - two commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penny
1994 - “The Secret World of Alex Mack” - Jessica
1995-1997 - “Flipper” - Maya
1996 - “Too Soon for Jeff” - Christy
1996 - “Chicago Hope” - Maria
1997 - “Dini Petty Show” - herself
1998 - “Brooklyn South” - Melissa
1998 - “Beverly Hills 90210″ - Leanne
1998 - “Love Boat: The Next Wave” - Layla
1998 - “E! News” - herself
1999 - “E! News” - herself
1999 - “E! Behind the Scenes: Never Been Kissed” - herself
1999 - “MTV News” - herself
2000 - “Dark Angel” - Max
2000 - “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno - herself
2001 - “Rosie O’Donnell” - herself
2001 - MTV’s “TRL” - herself
2001 - “Daily Show” withJohn Stewart - herself
2001 - “Late Night” with Conan O’Brian
2001 - “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno - herself
2001 - “Access Hollywood” - herself
2001 - “The View” - herself
2001 - “Late Night” with Conan O’Brian - herself
2001 - “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno - herself
2002 - “E! News daily” - herself
2002 - “Access Hollywood” - herself
2002 - “Extra” - herself
2002 - “Rosie O’Donnell Show” - herself
2002 - “Late Show” with David Letterman - herself
2002 - “Rank” - herself (episode: “25 Toughest Stars” 24 April 2002)
2003 - “Punk’d” - herself (episode # 1.3, 31 March 2003)
2003 - “Tinseltown TV” - herself
2003 - “Mad TV” - “Jessica Simpson” (episode # 9.5, 1 November 2003)
2003 - “Live in Hollywood” - herself as a guest host ( November 15, 2003)
2003 - “Rock Me Baby” - herself (episode: “The Difference Between Men and Women”, 18 November 2003)
2003 - “The Sharon Osbourne Show” - herself (5 December 2003)
2004 “Last Call with Carson Daly” - herself (23 February 2004)
2004 - “The View” - herself (7 July 2004)
2004 - “Entourage” - herself (episode: “The Review”, 25 July 2004)
2005 - “Late Show with David Letterman” - herself (22 March 2005)
2005 - “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” - herself (25 March 2005)
2005 - “Last Call with Carson Daly” - herself (1 April 2005)
Magazines
1992 - “Robinson’s May”
1994 - “Seventeen” - June
1995 - “Teen” - August
1999 - “Vanity Faire” - February
1999 - “Cinescape” - January/February
1999 - “YM” - March
1999 - “Teen People” - March
1999 - “Glamour” - March
1999 - “Allure” - March
1999 - “Bikini” - March
1999 - “Jump” - April
1999 - “Seventeen” - April
1999 - “Fangoria” - April
1999 - “Teen People” - May
1999 - “Detour” - May
1999 - “MXG” - Summer
1999 - “28th Street”
1999 - “Latingirl”
1999 - “Launch” - 28th edition
1999 - “The Sunday Times” - 06.20.99
1999 - “Toronto Star” - 06.23.99
1999 - “Teen People” - All-Star Yearbook
1999 - “Sci-Fi Teen”
1999 - “New York Times Magazine” - 09.05.99
1999 - “Gear” - October
2000 - “Seventeen” - January
2000 - “Details” - January
2000 - “Harper’s Bazaar” - January
2000 - “New York Post” - 01.27.99
2000 - “Stuff” - February
2000 - “Ralph” - February
2000 - “Details” - February
2000 - “Interview” - February
2000 - “Sky Magazine” - April
2000 - “Maxim” - Hot 100 insert - May
2000 - “Mademoiselle” - June
2000 - “Entertainment Weekly” - 06.30.00
2000 - “Harper’s Bazaar” - September
2000 - “TV Guide” - 09.14.00
2000 - “Stuff” - October
2000 - “Maxim” - October
2000 - “Emmy Magazine” - October
2000 - “Time” - 10.02.00
2000 - “Entertainment Weekly” - 10.06.00
2000 - “TV Guide” - 10.14.00
2000 - “TV Guide” (Canada) - 10.14.00
2000 - “US Weekly” - 10.16.00
2000 - “Teen Style” - October/November
2000 - “Steppin’ Out” - 11.01.00
2000 - “TV Guide” - 11.25.00
2000 - “Parade Magazine” - 11.26.00
2000 - “Femme Fatales” - November
2000 - “Seventeen” - November
2000 - “Gear” - November
2000 - “Starlog” - November
2000 - “Starlog” - December
2000 - “Maxim” - December
2000 - “Sophisticates Hairstyles” - December
2000 - “Teen Hairstyles” - December
2000 - “Entertainment Weekly” - 12.15.00
2000 - “Entertainment Weekly” - 12.22.00
2000 - “People Magazine” - 12.25.00
2000 - “Rolling Stone” - 12.28.00
2001 - “Source” - January
2001 - “J-14″ - January
2001 - “YM” - February
2001 - “Glamour” - February
2001 - “Entertainment Weekly Magazine - 03.18.01
2001 - “Sci-Fi Magazine” - April 2001
2001 - “Seventeen” - April 2001
2001 - “Us Sky Magazine” - April 2001
2001 - “Dreamwatch” - April 2001
2001 - “Maxim’s Top 100″ - May
2001 - Teen People Magazine - July 2001
2001 - “Movieline” - August 2001
2001 - “InStyle” - September 2001
2001 - “Twist” - September 2001
2001 - “Color&Style” - September 2001
2001 - “Entertainment Weekly”- October 2001
2001 - “Twist”- October 2001
2001 - “Celebrity Cuts” - December 2002
2002 - “Who Weekly”- January 2002
2002 - “Twist”- January 2002
2002 - “Twist”- February 2002
2002 - “Allure”- April 2002
2002 - “Cosmopolitan”- April 2002
2002 - “Bravo”- May 2002
2002 - “Cosmopolitan”- April 2002
2002 - “InStyle” - 2002
2002 - “Space View” - May 2002
2002 - “J-14″ - May 2002
Other
1999 - “Seventeen” on-line chat - 12.09.99
1999 - “Vagina Monologues” - 02.16.99
2002 - “Loreal Winter campaign” - 2001 / 2002
2002 - “Toy Festival” - February
2002 - “Marc Jacobs Fall Fashion Shows 2001″ - February
2002 - “Got Milk?” Ad - 2002
Jessica Alba Awards:
Golden Globe
2000 Best Actress - Drama Series Dark Angel
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