Jessica Marie Alba is an American actress and businesswoman. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack. She rose to prominence at 19, as the lead actress of the television series Dark Angel. In 2011, Alba co-founded The Honest Company, a consumer goods company that sells baby, personal and household products. Magazines including Men’s Health, Vanity Fair and FHM have included her on their lists of the world’s most beautiful women.
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Jessica Marie Alba is an American actress and businesswoman. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack. She rose to prominence at 19, as the lead actress of the television series Dark Angel. Her big screen breakthrough came in Honey. She soon established herself as a Hollywood actress, and has starred in numerous box office hits throughout her career. In 2011, Alba co-founded The Honest Company, a consumer goods company that sells baby, personal and household products. Magazines including Men’s Health, Vanity Fair and FHM have included her on their lists of the world’s most beautiful women. She will star in and executive produce a new documentary series for Disney+ called \”Parenting Without Borders\” which will focus on families around the world and their beliefs and culture. She is a frequent collaborator of director Robert Rodriguez, having starred in Sin City, Machete and Spy Kids: All the Time in the World. Alba has described her family as being a conservative family – a traditional, Catholic, Latin American family and herself as very liberal; she says she had identified herself as a \”feminist\” as early as age five. She has a younger brother, Joshua. Her third cousin, once removed, is writer Gustavo Arellano. She suffered from partially collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia four to five times a year, as well as a ruptured appendix and a tonsillar cyst.
Her father’s Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi, and Del Rio, Texas, before settling back in Claremont, California, when she was nine years old. Her mother has Danish, Welsh, German, English, and French ancestry, while her paternal grandparents, who were born in California, were both the children of Mexican immigrants. She was a PADI-certified scuba diver, skills which she put to use in a show, which was filmed in Australia. In 1998, she appeared as Melissa in a Steven Bochco crime-drama episode of Brooklyn South, as Leanne in two episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210, and as Layla in an episode of Love Boat: The Next Wave. In 1999 she appeared in the Randy Quaid comedy feature P U.S. S. K S.. After high school, she studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife Felicity Huffman, Felicity’s mother. She graduated from Claremont High School at age 16, and she subsequently attended the Atlantic Theater Company. She branched out into television in 1994 with a recurring role as the vain Jessica in three episodes of the Nickelodeon comedy series TheSecret World ofAlex Mack. Since 2019, she stars in the Spectrum action crime series L. A.’s Finest. She also starred in the movie Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. She was originally hired for two weeks but her role turned into a two-month job when one of the prominent actresses dropped out.
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