Jessica Alba Biography:
Jessica Alba is a young and famous celebrity. She was born in Pomona, California. Her father is Mark Alba, a Mexican descent who served in US Air Force. Her mother is Cathy Alba, a Danish, French-Canadian, English and Italian descent. Jessica Alba has a brother named Joshua Alba, who born January 1982.
Her maternal grandfather was a Marine noncom for 30 years, serving in the Pacific during WWII, and later as Asst. Drum Major for the United States Marine Band. Alba was raised in an Air Force family, along with her brother, Joshua, an actor who appeared with her in the season one finale of Dark Angel, and her grandparents until she was 17 years old. 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 to 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 says, 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.
After a series of moves in her childhood due to her father's career in the US Air Force, the wide-eyed, dark-haired and striking Jessica Alba settled with her family in Southern California and began to take acting classes at the age of eleven. Soon after beginning her studies, Alba made her film debut in 1993's "Camp Nowhere". Originally cast in a very small role, she was upgraded to a feature part when the original actress dropped out.
Although Alba claims she won the role chiefly because her look was similar to the original player, she proved capable of the work, and made an impressive debut. After a recurring role as a contemptible snob on Nickelodeon's "The Secret World of Alex Mack", Alba became a regular on the syndicated series "Flipper", a revival of the popular 1960s adventure program. Fresh faced, enthusiastic and sweet, the part of Maya Graham was a nice departure from her previous TV efforts. Alba originated the role of the young girl who befriends the titular dolphin, appearing on the show for the 1995-1996 season.
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. Her 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.
Alba appeared in two national TV commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney as a child; she was later featured in several independent films. She branched out into TV in 1994 with a recurring role as the 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.
An "ABC Afterschool Special" entitled "Too Soon for Jeff" aired in 1996, starring Alba as a pregnant teenager and Freddie Prinze Jr. as her overwhelmed boyfriend. Next the actress could be seen in some memorable guest performances on television series. Alba played a girl smitten with the captain's young son on UPN's "Love Boat: The Next Wave", a confused teen mother on a two-part episode of "Beverly Hills, 90210" (Fox) and the daughter of a police officer who identifies another officer as having indecently exposed himself to her in the CBS police drama "Brooklyn South" (all 1998).
Also in 1998, Alba starred in the little seen children's comedy feature "P.U.N.K.S". The following year she was featured in two higher profile films, first playing a clique leader in "Never Been Kissed", starring Drew Barrymore as a twentysomething reporter returned to high school for an undercover story. Next was "Idle Hands", a supernatural thriller starring Devon Sawa and Seth Green where Alba was featured as Sawa's love interest.
Alba's career kicked into high gear when she was cast as the genetically perfect Max on James Cameron's series "Dark Angel" in 2000. Her popularity skyrocketed along with the show's success and in the first season, she was nominated for a Golden Globe and she won the TV Guide Award as Breakout Star of the Year--nevetheless, the very expensive series folded in 2002 despite its devoted core following.
Alba's opportunities expanded along with her success and she became a spokeswoman for L'Oreal hair products (the Feria line of coloring) in 2001, and in 2002, she starred in the low-profile film "The Sleeping Dictionary" as a South American woman who falls in love with a British colonialist who visits her village. Her first major bid toward big screen stardom came in the form of "Honey" (2003), a feast of Alba-fueled eye candy but otherwise undistinguished effort aimed at the MTV demographic in which she played a tough, sexy music video choreographer.
Next up was a pair of high-profile projects based on comic book properties: first was the visually arresting "Sin City" (2005) for Robert Rodriguez and co-director/comic book creator Frank Miller, in which she played Nancy Callahan, a sultry, lasso-spinning pole dancer with an unexpected past in the segment "That Yellow Bastard"; then she went blonde and took the role of Susan Storm, better known as The Invisible Girl, for the big-screen, big-budget adaptation of the classic Stan Lee-Jack Kirby Marvel Comic "The Fantastic Four" (2005).
Although Alba gamely tackled the role, her efforts were largely undermined by a lack of chemistry with co-star/love interest Ioan Gruffudd and the film's wildly uneven quality. Alba's third film of 2005, the underwater diving drama "Into the Blue" (2005) opposite Paul Walker, was distinguished primarily by its stunning scenery: the gorgeous backdrop the Bahamas and Alba's frequently bikini-clad body, which made her status as Hollywood's breakout sex symbol of 2005 complete. Next up were sequels to "Sin City" and "Awake" (lensed 2005) an indie about a man (Hayden Christensen) who, due to failed anesthetic, is left completely alert, but paralyzed and unable to tell his doctors while undergoing open heart surgery.
Jessica Alba Milestones
Jessica Alba Photos
Jessica Alba in Dark Angel Movie
Jessica Alba in Fantastic Four Movie
Jessica Alba in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Movie
Jessica Alba in Honey Movie
Jessica Alba in Sin City Movie
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