Jessica Alba

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Birth Name: Jessica Marie Alba

Date of Birth: 28th. April, 1981

Place of Birth: Pomona, California, US

Father: Catherine Alba (née Jensen), Danish and French Canadian descent.

Mother: Mark Alba, Mexican American descent.

Siblings: a younger brother, Joshua.

Schooling: Alba graduated from high school at age 16, and she then subsequently attended the Atlantic Theater Company

Start of Career:

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.

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.

Personal Life:

Childhood--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 described 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, she had pneumonia 4-5 times a year, a ruptured appendix, and had a tonsillar cyst. Due to her illnesses Alba 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 child. Alba has said that her family's frequent moving also contributed to her isolation from her peers. Alba has also acknowledged that she has suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder during her childhood.

Religion--Alba was a Christian throughout her teenage years, 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".

Relationship--While filming Dark Angel in January 2000, Alba began a three year relationship with her co-star Michael Weatherly, which caused controversy due to their 12 year age gap. Weatherly proposed to Alba on her twentieth birthday, which she accepted. In August 2003, Alba and Weatherly announced that they'd ended their relationship. Alba met Cash Warren, son of actor Michael Warren, while making Fantastic Four in 2004. On December 27, 2007, Alba and Warren announced that they were engaged. 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 has said that she would like to have more children.

Public Image:

In 2001, Alba was ranked No. 1 on Maxim's Hot 100 list.

In 2005, Alba was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People, and also appeared in the magazine's 100 Most Beautiful list in 2007.

In 2002, Alba was voted as the fifth Sexiest Female Star for 2002 in a Hollywood.com poll, #4 in the Top 10 Sci-Fi Babes, #6 in FHM's Sexiest Girls for there poll, and ranked at #12 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" 2002 edition.

In 2005 Alba was ranked at #5 on the Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list.

In 2006, Alba ranked #3 on E! Television's 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies.

In 2006 readers of AskMen.com voted Alba No. 1 on 99 Most Desirable Women.

In 2007, Maxim Magazine placed Alba on the number 2 spot of their "Top 100".

In 2007 Alba was ranked in at #1 in FHM's Sexiest Girls of 2007 poll, in the magazine's Latvian edition.

In 2007 Alba was ranked #4 on Empire Magazine's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars.

In 2006 and 2007 Alba was voted #1 as the most sexy woman in the world by the Norwegian FHM.

In 2008 Alba was ranked #34 on Maxim's magazine's Hot 100 list, was ranked #2 on Wizard magazine's "Sexiest Women of TV" list, and was named in GQ Magazine one of the 25 Sexiest Women in film of all time.

Alba appeared in the 2009 Campari calendar. Campari printed 9,999 copies of the calendar featuring photos of Alba posing sexually in swimsuits, and high heels.

On Screen:

--Films

1994 Camp Nowhere

2003 The Sleeping Dictionary

DVD Exclusive Award for Best Actress in a DVD Premiere Movie

Honey

Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Liplock (Shared with Mekhi Phifer)

Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Chemistry (Shared with Mekhi Phifer)

Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress - Drama/Action Adventure

Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout Movie Star - Female

2005 Sin City

MTV Movie Award for Sexiest Performance

Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Action/Adventure/Thriller

Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress

Fantastic Four

Nominated — Imagen Foundation Award for Best Actress

Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Hero

Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Actress: Drama/Action Adventure

Into the Blue