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Jessica Alba
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Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981)is an American television
and film actress.
Alba began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere
and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). Alba rose to prominence as the
lead actress in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002), then expanding
her résumé to film, predominantly within the confines of action and comedy.
Alba later appeared in various films including Honey (2003), Sin City
(2005), Fantastic Four (2005), Into the Blue (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of
the Silver Surfer (2007) and Good Luck Chuck of the same year.
Alba appears frequently on the "Hot 100" section of Maxim and was voted
AskMen.com's number one on their list of "99 Most Desirable Women" in 2006,
as well as "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM in 2007. She also appeared on
the cover of Playboy, which was followed by a lawsuit that was later
dropped. Alba has won various awards for her acting, including the Choice
Actress Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award for Best Actress (TV) for her
acting in the series Dark Angel.
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Early life
Alba was born in Pomona, California to Catherine Alba (née Jensen) and Mark
Alba. Her mother is of Danish and French Canadian descent and her father is
of Mexican American descent (though both his parents were born in
California). She has a younger brother, Joshua. Her father's Air Force
career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi, and Del Rio, Texas before
settling back in California when she was nine years old.
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 ruptured
appendix, and a cyst on her tonsils. This isolated her from other children
at school because she was in the hospital so often that no one knew her well
enough to befriend her. She has also acknowledged suffering from
obsessive-compulsive disorder during childhood. Her health improved,
however, when her family moved to California. She graduated from high school
at age 16, and subsequently attended the Atlantic Theater Company.
Career
Alba had expressed interest in acting since the age of five. She took her
first acting class at age twelve. An acting agent signed her nine months
later.
In Edmonton during the filming of Good Luck Chuck, August 2006Her 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 in a leading role when one of the prominent actresses dropped
out.
Alba appeared in two national television commercials for Nintendo and J.C.
Penney as a child. She was later featured in several independent films. She
branched out into television in 1994 with a recurring role as the vain
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 television 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.
In 1998, she appeared as Melissa Hauer in a first-season episode of the
Steven Bochco crime-drama Brooklyn South, as Leanne in two episodes of
Beverly Hills 90210 and as Layla in an episode of The Love Boat: The Next
Wave. In 1999, she appeared in the Randy Quaid comedy feature P.U.N.K.S..After
Alba graduated from high school, she studied acting with William H. Macy and
his wife, Felicity Huffman, at the Atlantic Theater Company, which was
developed by Macy and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and film director,
David Mamet.
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 television series Dark Angel.
Co-created by Cameron, the series starred Alba, and ran for two seasons
until 2002, earning her critical acclaim as well as a Golden-Globe
nomination.
During preparation for Dark Angel, in which Alba trained for three hours
every day, the actress began to starve herself and became obsessed with
exercise, going on to say, "A lot of girls have eating disorders and I did
too. I got obsessed with it." Alba recalls coming to a realization that she
had a problem when she dropped to just 100 lb and cites her natural
introduction to puberty and her development of womanly curves as two things
that caused her "concern" regarding her aesthetics. Alba, who also suffered
from obsessive compulsive disorder and panic attacks, says she has been
cooking for herself since the age of twelve, in fear she will end up as fat
as her family members.
Alba's most notable film roles have included 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, of which movie critic Mick LaSalle said that her performance
while talking for long periods of time was on "shaky ground". She then
appeared in its sequel, in Into the Blue later that year, and Good Luck
Chuck a few years later. Alba went on to host the 2006 MTV Movie Awards and
performed sketches spoofing the movies King Kong, Mission Impossible 3, and
The Da Vinci Code.
In 2008, Alba appeared in her first horror-film role in The Eye, a remake of
the Hong Kong original. In February, she hosted the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences's Science and Technical Awards. Later in the year,
she starred in The Love Guru.
Alba has been represented by talent agent, Patrick Whitesell.
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Public image
Cover of the March 2006 issue of Playboy magazine. Alba objected to being on
the cover of the magazine and filed suit, but later dropped the action.In
2006, readers of Askmen.com voted Alba No. 1 on 99 Most Desirable Women,
while in 2007, Maxim Magazine placed Alba on the number 2 spot of their "Top
100", after Lindsay Lohan. Both GQ and In Style had Alba on their June
covers, and in May, after eight million votes, FHM (UK and USA editions)
named Alba the winner as "2007’s Sexiest Woman in the World".[Alba continues
to be regarded as one of the world's most attractive women, being named to
Maxim's Hot 100 in 2008.
Alba has received successful public reception in popular culture. She
received the Teen Choice Award for Choice Actress and Saturn Award for Best
Actress (TV) for her role in Dark Angel.She has frequently appeared on
Maxim's Hot 100 list. In 2006, Alba received an MTV Movie Award for "Sexiest
Performance" for Sin City.
Her acting has also drawn criticism however, as she was nominated for a 2007
Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her performances in Awake, Good Luck
Chuck, and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
On the cover of the March 2006 issue, Playboy magazine named Alba among its
25 Sexiest Celebrities, and the Sex Star of the Year. 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 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.
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 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.
Personal life
Alba was raised as a Roman Catholic and still considers herself
"spiritual".[ In her adolescence, she became a born-again Christian, but
left the church after four years because she felt she was being judged for
her appearance, explaining:
“ Older men would hit on me, and my youth pastor said it was because I was
wearing provocative clothing, when I wasn't. It just made me feel like if I
was in any way desirable to the opposite sex that it was my fault, and it
made me ashamed of my body and being a woman. ”
Alba also had objections to the church's condemnations of premarital sex and
homosexuality, and the lack of strong female role models in the Bible,
explaining "I thought it was a nice guide, but it certainly wasn't how I was
going to live my life." However, she has stated that she still holds her
belief in God despite leaving the church.
As the daughter of religiously conservative parents, Alba, whose
grandparents did not allow her to wear a bathing suit around the house,
maintains a no-nudity clause in her contract, though she has claimed she had
been open to the possibility of appearing nude in Sin City. She remarked of
a GQ shoot in which she was scantily clad, "They didn't want me to wear the
granny panties, but I said, 'If I'm gonna be topless I need to wear granny
panties."
Alba was given the option to appear nude by the film's directors, Frank
Miller and Robert Rodriguez, but declined the offer saying, "I don't do
nudity. I just don't. Maybe that makes me a bad actress. Maybe I won't get
hired in some things. But I have too much anxiety".
Alba at the Fantastic Four:Rise of the Silver Surfer premiere in London
2007While filming Dark Angel, Alba began a four year romance with fellow
castmate Michael Weatherly, which caused controversy due to their 12 year
age gap. He proposed to her on her twentieth birthday. They eventually broke
up after a four-year relationship. In July 2007, Jessica spoke out about the
break up. "I don't know [why I got engaged]. I was a virgin. He was 12 years
older than me. I thought he knew better. My parents weren't happy. They're
really religious. They believe God wouldn't allow the Bible to be written if
it wasn't what they are supposed to believe. I'm completely different."
Alba had at one time said she envisioned a much older man as her ideal
partner, making references to Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford,
and Michael Caine. "I have this thing for older men. They've been around and
know so much." Regarding children, Alba said, "I'm really girly when it
comes to kids. I've been surrounded by kids my whole life because I'm the
oldest of 15 cousins — I've been changing diapers since I was six. I want to
have a couple, for sure".
Alba met Cash Warren, son of actor Michael Warren, while making Fantastic
Four in 2004. Alba married Warren in Los Angeles on Monday, May 19, 2008. On
June 7, 2008, Alba gave birth to a baby girl, Honor Marie Warren,at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. The first pictures
of Honor Marie appeared in OK! magazine, which paid a reported $1.5 million
for them.
Alba's charity work includes participation with Clothes Off Our Back,
Habitat for Humanity, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,
Project HOME, RADD, Revlon Run/Walk for Women, SOS Children Villages,
Soles4Souls, and Step up.Alba endorsed Democratic presidential hopeful
Barack Obama during the primary season.
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