Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981is an American television and film actress. She 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 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 and Good Luck Chuck both in 2007
Alba is considered a sex symbol and often generates media attention for her looks. She appears on the "Hot 100" section of Maxim and was voted number one on AskMen.com's list of "99 Most Desirable Women" in 2006, as well as "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM in 2007 The use of her image on the cover of the March 2006 Playboy sparked a lawsuit by her, which was later dropped She has also won various awards for her acting, including the Choice Actress Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, and a Golden Globe nomination for her lead role in the television series Dark Angel
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Public image
4 Personal life
4.1 Religion
4.2 Relationships and family
4.3 Charity and politics
5 Filmography
5.1 Film
5.2 Television
6 Awards
7 References
8 External links
Alba was born in Pomona, California to Catherine (née Jensen) and Mark Alba. Her mother is of Danish and French Canadian descent and her father is Mexican American. 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 described her family as being a "very 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
Alba's early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies. During childhood, she suffered from collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 times a year, as well as a ruptured appendix and a tonsillar cystAlba became isolated from other children at school, because she was in the hospital so often due to her illnesses that no one knew her well enough to befriend her Alba has also had asthma since she was a childAlba has said that her family's frequent moving also contributed to her isolation from her peers She has acknowledged that she has suffered from obsessivecompulsive disorder during her childhood Alba graduated from high school at age 16 and she subsequently attended the Atlantic Theater Company
Career
Smiling young woman in strapless white dress, holding a microphone.
Alba at the 2008 Paris premiere for The Eye.
Alba expressed interest in acting since the age of five. In 1992, the 11-year-old Alba persuaded her mother to take her to an acting competition in Beverly Hills, California, whose grand prize was free acting classes. Alba won the grand prize, and took her first acting lessons. An agent signed Alba 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 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 certified scuba diver, skills which were put to use on the show, which was filmed in Australia
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