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Jessica
Marie Alba known as Jessica Alba was born
on April 28, 1981 in Pomona, California
to Mark Alba, who is of Mexican descent,
and Cathy Jensen, who has Danish and French-Canadian
ancestry. She is an American actress.
She is known for her roles in Dark Angel,
Sin City, Fantastic Four and Into the
Blue.
Jessica
Alba was raised in an Air Force family,
along with her brother, Joshua Alba, and
her grandparents until she was 17. Her
father's Air Force career took the family
to Biloxi, Mississippi, and Del Rio, Texas,
before they settled back in California.
Alba's early life was marked by a multitude
of physical maladies; she suffered collapsed
lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 times a
year, a burst appendix, a cyst on her
tonsils and asthma.She has also acknowledged
suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder
during childhood. |
This
served to isolate her from other children at
school because, as she claims, she was in the
hospital so often that no one knew her well
enough to befriend her. Her health improved,
however, when her family moved to California.
Alba had expressed interest in acting since
the age of five. She took her first acting class
at age twelve, and an acting agent signed her
nine months later.Alba's first appearance on
film was a small role in the 1994 feature Camp
Nowhere as Gail. She was originally hired for
two weeks but her role turned into a two month
job when the actress in one of the prominent
roles dropped out.
Young
Alba appeared in two national TV commercials
for Nintendo and J.C. Penney; she was later
featured in several independent films. She
branched out into TV in 1994 with a recurring
role as the insufferable young snob, Jessica,
in three episodes of the Nickelodeon comedy
series The Secret World of Alex Mack. She
then performed the role of Maya in the first
two seasons of the TV series Flipper. Under
the tutelage of her lifeguard mother, Alba
learned to swim before she could walk, and
she was a PADI-certified scuba diver, skills
which were put to use on the show, which was
filmed in Australia.
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. Her big break came when
writer/director James Cameron picked Alba
from a pool of 1,200 candidates for the role
of the genetically-engineered super-soldier,
Max Guevara, on the Fox sci-fi TV series Dark
Angel. Co-created by Cameron, Alba was the
star in the series which ran for two seasons
before being canceled in 2002. Since then
her most notable roles have been as an aspiring
dancer/choreographer in Honey, exotic dancer
Nancy Callahan in Sin City and as the classic
Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible
Woman in the Fantastic Four. Jessica went
on to host the MTV Movie Awards 2006 and performed
sketches spoofing the movies King Kong, Mission
Impossible 3, and The Da Vinci Code.
Playboy
magazine named Alba among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities,
and the Sex Star of the Year in its March
2006 issue, on whose cover she appeared. Alba
was involved in litigation against Playboy
for its use of her image (from a promotional
shot for Into the Blue) without her consent,
which she contends gave the appearance that
she was featured in the issue in a "nude
or semi-nude pictorial". However, she
later dropped the lawsuit after receiving
a personal apology from Playboy owner Hugh
Hefner who agreed to make donations to two
charities that Alba has supported.
Apparently,
Alba fears being typecast as a sex kitten
based on the bulk of parts offered to her.Somehow,
I don't think this is happening to Natalie
Portman," laments Jessica Alba. In the
interview, Alba says she wants to be taken
seriously as an actress but believes she needs
to do movies that she would otherwise not
be interested in to build her career, stating
that eventually she hopes to be more selective
in her film projects.
Filmography:
2007
Sin City 2
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
The Eye (filming)
The Ten
Bill
Good Luck Chuck
Awake
2005 Into the Blue
Fantastic Four Sue Storm
Sin City
2003 Honey
The Sleeping Dictionary
2000–2002 Dark Angel
2000 Paranoid
1999 Idle Hands
Never Been Kissed Kirsten Liosis
P.U.N.K.S. Samantha Swoboda
1996 Too Soon for Jeff Christy (TV series)
1995–1996 Flipper Maya (TV series)
1995 Venus Rising Young Eve
1994 Camp Nowhere
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