Jessica Alba

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Modèle:Pp-semi-protected Modèle:Infobox actor Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress, whose TV and film credits include Dark Angel, Honey, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue, Idle Hands and 2007's Good Luck Chuck. Alba rose to prominence following the television series Dark Angel, then expanding her resume to film, predominantly within the confines of action and comedy. Alba appears frequently on the "Hot 100" section of Maxim, and was voted AskMen.com's No. 1 on their list of "99 Most Desirable Women" in 2006, as well as "Sexiest Woman in the World" in FHM in 2007.

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1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life and family
2 Career
- 2.1 Early career
- 2.2 Film career
3 Public image
4 Filmography
5 Awards and nominations
6 References
7 External links

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Biography

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Early life and family

Alba was born in Pomona, California, the daughter of Catherine (née Jensen), who is Danish American on her father's side and French American on her mother's side, and Mark Alba, who is Mexican American (though both of his parents were born in California).<ref name="latina"> Jessica Alba: Don't Call Me A Latina!!

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Alba's early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies; she suffered collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 times a year, a ruptured appendix, and a cyst on her tonsils. This isolated her from other children at school because, as she claims, she was in the hospital so often that no one knew her well enough to befriend her.<ref>Modèle:Cite journal</ref>

She has also acknowledged suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder during childhood.<ref> Cullen , Denise

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Career

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Early career

Alba had expressed interest in acting since the age of five. She took her first acting class at age twelve, and an acting agent signed her nine months later.<ref>Hollywood Life magazine; September/October 2005 pp. 44 – 49; 106.</ref>

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Alba in Edmonton on August 4, 2006 during the filming of Good Luck Chuck.

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 when the actress in one of the prominent roles dropped out.

Alba appeared in two national TV commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney as a child; she was later featured in several independent films. She branched out into TV 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 TV series Flipper. Under the tutelage of her lifeguard mother, Alba learned to swim before she could walk, and she was a PADI-certified scuba diver, skills which were put to use on the show, which was filmed in Australia.

In 1998, she appeared as Melissa Hauer in a first-season episode of the Steven Bochco crime-drama Brooklyn South, as Leanne in two episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 and as Layla in an episode of The Love Boat: The Next Wave. In 1999, she appeared in the Randy Quaid comedy feature P.U.N.K.S.. After graduating from high school, Alba studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, at the Atlantic Theater Company, which was developed by Macy and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and film director, David Mamet.

Alba rose to greater prominence in Hollywood in 1999 after appearing as a member of a snobby high school clique in the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, and as the female lead in the 1999 comedy-horror film Idle Hands, opposite Devon Sawa.

Her big break came when writer/director James Cameron picked Alba from a pool of 1,200 candidates for the role of the genetically-engineered super-soldier, Max Guevara, on the FOX sci-fi TV series Dark Angel. Co-created by Cameron, the series starred Alba, and ran for two seasons until 2002, earning her critical acclaim as well as a Golden-Globe nomination.

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Film career

Since then her most notable roles have included an aspiring dancer-choreographer in Honey, exotic dancer Nancy Callahan in Sin City and as the classic Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four. Jessica went on to host the 2006 MTV Movie Awards and performed sketches spoofing the movies King Kong, Mission Impossible 3, and The Da Vinci Code. Alba's pending projects include The Eye (a remake of the Hong Kong original) and Sisters, alongside Eliska Amor and Paz Vega.<ref>TV.com Eliska Amor, Jessica Alba, Paz Vega: Sizzling SistersRetrieved October 2 2007</ref><ref>PazVega.org Alba, Amor and Vega spread a little Sisterly LoveRetrieved November 2 2007</ref>

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Public image

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Reception

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Cover of the March 2006 issue of Playboy magazine. Alba objected to being on the cover of the magazine and filed suit, but later dropped the action.

In 2006, readers of Askmen.com voted Alba No. 1 on 99 Most Desirable Women,<ref>AskMen.com - Jessica Alba.</ref> while in 2007, Maxim Magazine placed Alba on the number 2 spot of their "Top 100", after Lindsay Lohan.<ref>Maxim Top 100 for 2007</ref> Both GQ and In Style had Alba on their June covers,<ref>GQ: The Jessica Alba Video</ref><ref>In Style 6/2007</ref> and in May, after eight million votes, FHM (UK and USA editions) named Alba the winner as "2007’s Sexiest Woman in the World".<ref>FHM 2007’s Sexiest Woman</ref>

Alba has received successful public reception in popular culture. In 2001 Alba received a Teen Choice Award for Choice Actress for her role in Dark Angel. In 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007, Alba appeared on Maxim's Hot 100 list. In 2006, Alba received an MTV Movie Award for "Sexiest Performance" for Sin City. In 2007, Alba received the Spike TV Guys' Choice Award for "Hottest Jessica".<ref>Casey, Jordan; "Spike TV Holds First Annual Guys Choice Awards Show"; Allheadlinenews.com; June 11 , 2007.</ref>

On the cover of the March 2006 issue, Playboy magazine named Alba among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities, and the Sex Star of the Year. Alba was involved in litigation against Playboy for its use of her image (from a promotional shot for Into the Blue) without her consent, which she contends gave the appearance that she was featured in the issue in a "nude pictorial". However, she later dropped the lawsuit after receiving a personal apology from Playboy owner Hugh Hefner, who agreed to make donations to two charities that Alba has supported.<ref> Silverman , Stephen M

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Alba fears being typecast as a sex kitten based on the bulk of parts offered to her.<ref>"Alba Fears Whore Typecast"; WENN November 9 , 2005.</ref> "Somehow, I don't think this is happening to Natalie Portman," laments Alba. In the interview, Alba says she wants to be taken seriously as an actress but believes she needs to do movies that she would otherwise not be interested in to build her career, stating that eventually she hopes to be more selective in her film projects.

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Charity

Alba's charity work includes participation with Clothes Off Our Back, Habitat for Humanity, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Project HOME, RADD, Revlon Run/Walk for Women, SOS Children Villages, Soles4Souls, and Step up.<ref>Celebrity Charity Jessica Alba's Charity Work Retrieved November 2 2007</ref>

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Personal life

During preparation for Dark Angel, in which Alba trained for three hours every day, the actress began to starve herself and became obsessed with exercise, going on to say, "A lot of girls have eating disorders and I did too. I got obsessed with it." Alba recalls coming to a realization that she had a problem when she dropped to just 100 lbs and cites her natural introduction to puberty and her development of womanly curves as two things that caused her "concern" regarding her aesthetics. Alba, who also suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder and panic attacks, says she has been cooking for herself since the age of twelve, in fear she will end up as fat as her family members. <ref>"Jessica Alba's anorexic hell"; askmen.com; July 27 , 2005.</ref>

Alba has revealed that she envisions a much older man as her ideal partner, making references to Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, and Michael Caine. "I have this thing for older men. They've been around and know so much."<ref>Jessica Alba: Older men are ideal partners</ref> Alba is in a relationship with Cash Warren, whom she met while making Fantastic Four,<ref>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/category?blogid=7&cat=227</ref><ref>http://www.marieclaire.com/hair/celebrity/behind-scenes/jessica-alba</ref> and with whom she is expecting their first child in early spring/summer of 2008.<ref>"

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Alba was raised Catholic and still considers herself "spiritual".<ref name="religion07"/> In her adolescence, she became a born-again Christian,<ref>Gardetta, Dave; "The Sinner"; GQ magazine; April 2005.</ref> but left the church after four years because she felt she was being judged for her appearance, explaining: Modèle:Cquote

Alba also had objections to the church's condemnations of premarital sex and homosexuality, and the lack of strong female role models in the Bible, explaining:

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As the daughter of religiously conservative parents, Alba, whose grandparents did not allow her to wear a bathing suit around the house, maintains a no-nudity clause in her contract, though she has claimed she had been open to the possibility of appearing nude in Sin City. She remarked of a GQ shoot in which she was scantily clad, "They didn't want me to wear the granny panties, but I said, 'If I'm gonna be topless I need to wear granny panties' ".<ref>"Alba Turns Her Back on Christian Pals Who Made Her Feel Ashamed"; Contactmusic.com; March 23 , 2005.</ref>

Alba was given the option to appear nude by the film's directors, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, but declined the offer saying, "I don't do nudity. I just don't. Maybe that makes me a bad actress. Maybe I won't get hired in some things. But I have too much anxiety".<ref name=Elle2006/>

Of her mixed heritage, and perceptions of her ethnicity, Alba has said:

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Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Camp Nowhere	Gail
1995	Venus Rising	Young Eve
1995–1996	Flipper	Maya	(TV series)
1996	Too Soon for Jeff	Christy	(TV series)
1999	P.U.N.K.S.	Samantha Swoboda
	Never Been Kissed	Kirsten Liosis
	Idle Hands	Molly
2000	Paranoid	Chloe
2000–2002	Dark Angel	Max Guevara/X5-452	(TV series)
2003	The Sleeping Dictionary	Selima
2003	Honey	Honey Daniels
2005	Sin City	Nancy Callahan
	Fantastic Four	Sue Storm / Invisible Woman
	Into the Blue	Sam
2007	Awake	Sam
	Good Luck Chuck	Cam Wexler
	The Ten	Liz
	Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer	Sue Richards / Invisible Woman
2008	Bill	Lucy	(completed)
	The Eye	Allison	(completed)
	The Love Guru	Jane Bullard	(post-production)

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Awards and nominations

Teen Choice Awards

Won: TV - Choice Actress, Dark Angel (2001)
Nominated: TV - Choice Actress, Drama, Dark Angel (2002)
Nominated: Choice Movie Liplock, Honey (2004, Shared with Mekhi Phifer)
Nominated: Choice Movie Chemistry, Honey (2004, Shared with Mekhi Phifer)
Nominated: Choice Movie Actress - Drama/Action Adventure, Honey (2004)
Nominated: Choice Breakout Movie Star - Female, Honey (2004)
Nominated: Choice Movie Actress: Action/Adventure/Thriller, Sin City (2005)
Nominated: Movies - Choice Actress: Drama/Action Adventure, Fantastic Four (2006)
Nominated: Choice Movie: Hissy Fit, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Nominated: Choice Movie Actress: Action Adventure, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

ALMA Awards

Nominated: Outstanding Actress in a New Television Series, Dark Angel (2001)
Won: Breakthrough Actress of the Year (2001)
Nominated: Outstanding Actress in a Television Series, Dark Angel (2002)
Nominated: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Sin City (2006)

Saturn Awards