Jessica Marie Alba is an American actress, model and businesswoman. She has 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. Alba began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack. She rose to prominence as the lead actress in the James Cameron television series Dark Angel when she was 19 years old. Alba later appeared in Honey, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck. In January 2012, Alba co-founded The Honest Company, a consumer goods company that sells non-toxic household products, and owns between 15-20 percent of the company. Her early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies. During childhood, she suffered from partially collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia four to five times a year, as well as a ruptured appendix and a tonsillar cyst. 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. She has acknowledged that she suffered from obsessive–compulsive disorder during her childhood. Alba graduated from Claremont High School at age 16, and she subsequently attended the Atlantic Theater Company.
Bio:
Name: Jessica Marie Alba
Nickname: Sky Angel, Albz, Jma, Jess
Date of Birth: April 28, 1981
Place of Birth: Pomona, CA
Place of Residence:Los Angeles, CA
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Education: Atlantic Theater Company
Body Stats:
Height: 5’7″ / 170 cm
Weight: 123.5 lbs / 56 kg
Shoe size: 8 / 38.5 (EU)
Dress size: 2 (US)
Bra size: 34B
Measurements: 34-24-34 in / 86-61-86 cm
Ethnicity: Multiracial (Caucasian and Mexican)
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Social Networks:
Twitter: @jessicaalba
Facebook: Jessica Alba
Instagram: @jessicaalba
Fun Facts:
Relationships:
- Michael Weatherly (January 2000 – August 2003)
- Cash Warren (August 2004 – May 2008, married since May, 2008)
Children: Honor Marie Warren and Haven Garner Warren
Awards and Honors:
- 1998 – YoungStar Award
- 2001 – ALMA Award
- 2001 – Saturn Award
- 2001 – Golden Globe Award Nomination
- 2005 – Young Hollywood Awards
- 2006 – MTV Movie Award
- 2007 – Spike TV Guys’ Choice Awards
- 2011 – Razzie Award
- People’s Choice Awards Nomination (several times)
- Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards (several times)
- Maxim’s Hot 100
Hobbies and Interests: Golf, Yoga, Cooking
Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Food: Grilled Chicken and Salad
Favorite Music: Phoenix, No Doubt, ASAP Rocky
Favorite Perfume: Chanel No. 5
Favorite Book: The Honest Life
Favorite Sports: Basketball, Golf
Favorite Movie: The Godfather, When Harry Met Sally, Casablanca
Interesting Facts:
- At the age of 5, she decided that she wanted to become an actress.
- She does not know Spanish and can hardly understand that language, despite her Mexican ancestry from her father’s side.
- She is a certified PADI scuba diver.
- Her cousin Steve “Salba” Alba is a skateboarding legend.
- Has two pug dogs, named Nancy and Sid.
- Became anorexic the same year she had a kidney infection – 2001.
- Loves Harley Davidson motorcycles.
- Learned how to play the violin for her role in The Eye
- She has the Sankskrit word for “lotus” tattooed on the inside of her wrist.
- Her father was a pro-circuit tennis player before joining the Air Force.
- She is good friends with Lindsay Lohan, Eva Longoria, Eva Mendes and Kate Hudson.
- She is frightened of flying birds.
- Her parents were only 20 when she was born.
- Johnny Depp is her favorite actor.