| Jessica Alba  AKA Jessica Marie Alba
Born: 28-Apr-1981
Birthplace: Pomona, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Dark Angel Raised in a military family, Jessica Alba grew up in Mississippi, Texas, and California. She took her first acting lessons at 11, and soon burst out as a gifted actress. Within months, Alba had an agent, and soon she was featured prominently in commercials for JC Penny and Nintendo. At 13, she was hired for a tiny role in Disney's Camp Nowhere, but her big break came when a girl with a larger role backed out after filming had begun. Alba had similar hair, so recasting her in the more prominent role required few re-shoots. She quickly landed a recurring role on Nickelodeon's The Secret World of Alex Mack, and at 14, she did a schlocky direct-to-video film with Morgan Fairchild called Venus Rising. On her second TV series, she wore bikinis in the mid-1990s redux of Flipper. She says she received the role on account of her swimming ability.
At 15, she was the pregnant teen in an abysmal Afterschool Special, Too Soon for Jeff with Freddie Prinze, Jr.. She was more lifelike as one of the high school kids in Never Been Kissed with Drew Barrymore, and as the object of Devon Sawa's affections in Idle Hands. In James Cameron's Dark Angel, she pouted, kicked ass, and did some genuine acting as the "genetically enhanced" Max Guevara for two enjoyable years. She has since starred on the big screen as Sarawak tribal translator in The Sleeping Dictionary, as a hip-hop dancer in Honey, and as a stripper in Sin City. In Fantastic Four and its sequel she was the invisible woman, Susan Storm.
Father: Mark Alba (real estate agent)
Mother: Cathy Jensen (housewife)
Brother: Joshua Alba (actor, b. 8-Jul-1982)
Boyfriend: Michael Weatherly (Dark Angel costar, engaged May-2001, broken 2003)
Husband: Cash Warren (film producer, b. 1979, dated-cohabited 2005-08, m. 19-May-2008, one daughter)
Daughter: Honor Marie Warren (b. 7-Jun-2008 with Warren)
High School: Claremont High School, Claremont, CA
Endorsement of L'Oreal 2001
Endorsement of Revlon 2007
Mexican Ancestry Paternal
French Ancestry Maternal
Danish Ancestry Maternal
TELEVISION
Dark Angel Max Guevera (2000-02)
The New Aventures of Flipper Maya Graham (1995-2000)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Love Guru (20-Jun-2008)
The Eye (30-Jan-2008)
Awake (30-Nov-2007)
Meet Bill (8-Sep-2007)
Good Luck Chuck (13-Jun-2007)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (13-Jun-2007)
The Ten (19-Jan-2007)
Into the Blue (30-Sep-2005)
Fantastic Four (6-Jul-2005)
Sin City (1-Apr-2005)
Honey (24-Nov-2003)
The Sleeping Dictionary (31-Jan-2003)
Paranoid (30-Mar-2000)
Idle Hands (30-Apr-1999)
Never Been Kissed (9-Apr-1999)
P.U.N.K.S. (5-Jan-1999)
Venus Rising (1995)
Camp Nowhere (26-Aug-1994)
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