1. Jessica Marie Alba is an American actress, businesswoman, and entrepreneur.
61 Facts About Jessica Alba
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Jessica Alba began her acting career at age 13 in Camp Nowhere, followed up by The Secret World of Alex Mack, and rose to prominence at age 19 as the lead actress of the television series Dark Angel, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.
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Jessica Alba soon established herself as a Hollywood actress, and has starred in numerous box office hits throughout her career, including Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Good Luck Chuck, The Eye, Valentine's Day, Little Fockers, and Mechanic: Resurrection.
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Jessica Alba is a frequent collaborator with director Robert Rodriguez, having starred in Sin City, Machete, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, Machete Kills, and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
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In 2011, Jessica Alba co-founded The Honest Company, a consumer goods company that sells baby, personal and household products.
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Jessica Marie Alba was born in Pomona, California, on April 28,1981, to Catherine Louisa and Mark David Alba.
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Jessica Alba's mother has Danish, Welsh, German, English and French ancestry, while her paternal grandparents, who were born in California, were children of Mexican immigrants.
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Jessica Alba became isolated from other children at school because she was hospitalized so often, no one knew her well enough to befriend her.
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Jessica Alba has said that her family's frequent moving contributed to her isolation from her peers.
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Jessica Alba graduated from Claremont High School at age 16 and subsequently attended the Atlantic Theater Company.
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In 1992, the eleven year old Jessica Alba persuaded her mother to take her to an acting competition in Beverly Hills, where the grand prize was free acting classes.
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Jessica Alba won the grand prize, and took her first acting lessons.
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Jessica Alba's first film appearance was a small role in the 1994 feature Camp Nowhere as Gail.
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Jessica Alba 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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Jessica Alba 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.
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Jessica Alba then performed the role of Maya in the first two seasons of the 1995 television series Flipper.
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Under the tutelage of her lifeguard mother, Jessica Alba learned to swim before she could walk, and was a PADI certified scuba diving skills which were put to use on the show, which was filmed in Australia.
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Jessica Alba rose to greater prominence in Hollywood in 1999 after appearing as a member of a snobby high school clique tormenting an insecure copy editor in the romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, opposite Drew Barrymore, and as the female lead in the little seen comedy horror film Idle Hands, alongside Devon Sawa.
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Jessica Alba's role has been cited as a feminist character and is considered a symbol of female empowerment.
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Jessica Alba had her big screen breakthrough in 2003 when she starred as an aspiring dancer-choreographer in Honey.
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Jessica Alba next played exotic dancer Nancy Callahan, as part of a long ensemble cast, in the neo-noir crime anthology film Sin City, written, produced, and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller.
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Jessica Alba had not heard about the novel prior to her involvement with the film, but was eager to work with Rodriguez.
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Jessica Alba portrayed the Marvel Comics character Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four, alongside Ioan Gruffudd, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, and Julian McMahon.
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At the 2006 MTV Movie Awards, Jessica Alba earned nominations for Best Hero and Best On-Screen Team.
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Jessica Alba hosted the 2006 MTV Movie Awards and performed sketches spoofing the movies King Kong, Mission: Impossible III and The Da Vinci Code.
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Jessica Alba reprised her role in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, released in June 2007.
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In Good Luck Chuck, Jessica Alba portrayed the love interest of a womanizer dentist.
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Jessica Alba posed for one of the Good Luck Chucks theatrical posters parodying the well-known Rolling Stone cover photographed by Annie Leibovitz featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono in similar poses.
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Jessica Alba's third starring vehicle in 2007 was the psychological thriller Awake, portraying the girlfriend of a wealthy man who is about to have a heart transplant.
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Jessica Alba made her acting transition to the horror genre in the film The Eye, a remake of the Hong Kong original, in which she obtained the role of a successful classical violinist who receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world.
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The drama An Invisible Sign of My Own, which Jessica Alba filmed in late 2008, premiered at the Hamptons Film Festival.
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In 2011, Jessica Alba worked for the third time with Robert Rodriguez in the film Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, portraying a retired spy who is called back into action.
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In 2013, Jessica Alba made her voice acting debut in the moderately successful animated film Escape from Planet Earth.
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Jessica Alba worked with director Rodriguez for two film sequels.
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Jessica Alba was successful, and was valued at US$1 billion as of 2014.
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In early 2013, Jessica Alba released her book, The Honest Life, based on her experiences creating a natural, non-toxic life for her family.
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In October 2015, Jessica Alba launched a collection of skin care and beauty products called Honest Beauty.
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Jessica Alba was employed as the company's chief creative officer, receiving an annually base salary of $700,000 and restricted stock valued $1,500,000.
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Jessica Alba stepped down as chief creative officer in April 2024.
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Jessica Alba posed for a bondage-themed print advertising campaign by Declare Yourself, a campaign encouraging voter registration among youth for the 2008 United States presidential election.
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The ads, photographed by Mark Liddell, feature Jessica Alba wrapped in and gagged with black tape, and drew national media attention.
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Jessica Alba endorsed and supported Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama during the 2008 primary season.
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In June 2009, while filming The Killer Inside Me in Oklahoma City, Jessica Alba was involved in a controversy with residents when she pasted posters of sharks around town.
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Jessica Alba said that she was trying to bring attention to the diminishing population of great white sharks.
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Media outlets speculated that Jessica Alba would be pursued and charged with vandalism.
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Jessica Alba apologized in a statement to People magazine and said that she regretted her actions.
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Jessica Alba later donated an undisclosed amount of money to the United Way, whose billboard she had obscured with one of the shark posters.
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In 2011, Jessica Alba participated in a two-day lobbying effort in Washington DC in support of the Safe Chemicals Act, a revision of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976.
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Jessica Alba returned to Capitol Hill in 2015 to lobby lawmakers as they debated a replacement for the 1976 Substances Control Act.
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Jessica Alba has been a strong supporter of gay rights and on June 27,2013, she expressed her delight with the Supreme Court's decision to strike down DOMA on her Twitter account.
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Jessica Alba is an ambassador for the 1Goal movement to provide education to children in Africa.
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Jessica Alba has served as a Baby2Baby "angel" ambassador, donating and helping to distribute items such as diapers and clothing to families in Los Angeles.
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Jessica Alba has received attention for her looks over the years and has been included in several publications' lists of the most attractive celebrities of the time.
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Jessica Alba was included in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list multiple times from 2001 to 2014.
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Jessica Alba was involved in litigation against Playboy for its use of her image on this cover without her consent, which she contended gave the impression that she was featured in the issue in a "nude pictorial".
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Jessica Alba later dropped the lawsuit after receiving a personal apology from Playboy owner Hugh Hefner, who agreed to make donations to two charities Alba had supported.
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Jessica Alba appeared in the 2009 Campari calendar, which featured photos of her posing; Campari printed 9,999 copies of the calendar.
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Jessica Alba has been quoted saying she will not do nudity for a role.
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Jessica Alba met Cash Warren, son of actor Michael Warren, while filming Fantastic Four in 2004.
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On January 16,2025, Jessica Alba announced that they had separated.
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Jessica Alba's matrilineal line was Jewish and revealed that lawyer Alan Dershowitz is a genetic relative of hers.