Jessica Marie Alba was born April 28, 1981 in Pomona, California to Catherine and Mark Alba. Jessica happens to be of Danish, French Canadian and Mexican decent. Jessica’s father was served in the Air Force and consequently his job moved them from Biloxi, Mississippi to Del Rio, Texas and afterwards back again to California where her family settled when Jess was nine years old. She has described her family as being a “very conservative family – a traditional, Catholic, Latin American family”, although she views herself as a liberal. During her childhood, Jessica experienced collapsed lungs two times, suffered from pneumonia four to five times annually, and additionally a ruptured appendix and a tonsillar cyst. Her ailments forced her to spend a considerable amount of her time within the hospital, and for that reason isolated her from friends. She has additionally reported that she experienced obsessive-compulsive disorder whilst she was a kid. At 16 years old, Jessica graduated from high school and after that attended the Atlantic Theater Company.
Jessica alba originally demonstrated an interest in acting when she was five years of age. When jessica was eleven, she convinced her mother to bring her to an acting competition in Beverly Hills whose grand prize was actually free acting coaching. Jessica landed the prize and naturally took her first acting classes. No more than nine months later an agent signed Jessica. Her 1st on screen appearance was in the 1994 motion picture Camp Nowhere as Gail. She was going to be hired for a couple of weeks, but then it turned into couple of months and as a consequence Jessica ended up having a leading part once the lead actress dropped out. She additionally appeared in nationwide advertisements for Nintendo and also J.C. Penney. Later she was featured in a great many independent motion pictures. Then in 1994, she took on the role of Jessica in Nickelodeon’s The Secret World of Alex Mack. She also played Maya in the Show Flipper.
In 1998, she portrayed Melissa Hauer in an episode of Brooklyn South while in its initial season, as Leanne in a couple of episodes of Beverly Hills 90210, and as Layla for an episode of The Love Boat: The Next Wave. The subsequent year she appeared in the Randy Quaid comedy film P.U.N.K.S. Jessica achieved more recognition after she played the role of a snotty high school clique member in the presentation Never Been Kissed which stars Drew Barrymore. During that year Jessica took the head part in Idle Hands next to Devon Sawa.
Jessica Alba’s breakthrough emerged as soon as she took on the role of enetically-engineered super-soldier, Max Guevara, on the Fox sci-fi tv show Dark Angel. The television series was actually co-created by James Cameron and furthermore he selected Jessica particularly for the gig from a group of 1,200 candidates. The program aired for a couple of seasons and landed her a Golden Globe nomination. Jessica Alba later revealed that while planning for Dark Angel, she experienced anorexia.
Jessica has starred in plenty of movies, including Honey, Sin City, Awake, Good Luck Chuck, and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Around 2008, she had a role in the scary film The Eye and also played alongside Justin Timberlake in The Love Guru. In late 2008, Jessica signed on to play the starring role in An Invisible Sign of My Own. Though filming was carried out in 2008 the launch was set for 2011. In 2010, Jessica played in Valentine’s Day among an all-star cast list.
Jessica Alba is on the front cover of Jessica Alba InStyle Magazine.
