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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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Biography
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">{{cite web www.mediatakeout.com/7187/jessica_alba_dont_call_me_a_latina.html//www.mediatakeout.com/7187/jessica_alba_dont_call_me_a_latina.html | title = Jessica Alba: Don't Call Me A Latina!! | publisher = MediaTakeout.com | date = 2007-06-17 | accessdate = 2007-12-12 }}</ref> Alba's parents married while in their teenage years.<ref name="religion07">{{cite web www.mediatakeout.com/7187/jessica_alba_dont_call_me_a_latina.html//www.mediatakeout.com/7187/jessica_alba_dont_call_me_a_latina.html | title = Jessica Alba and her ambitious quest to be the next Tom Cruise | first = Elaine | last = Lipworth | publisher = Daily Mail | date = 2007-06-09 | accessdate = 2007-12-12 }}</ref><ref name="Elle2006">{{cite web www.mediatakeout.com/7187/jessica_alba_dont_call_me_a_latina.html//www.elle.com/coverstory/9917/jessica-alba.html | title = Jessica Alba - ELLE | last = Itzkoff | first = Dave | publisher = Elle.com | accessdate =[2007-12-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite news www.mediatakeout.com/7187/jessica_alba_dont_call_me_a_latina.html//www.burnhamandhighbridgeweeklynews.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1473931.mostviewed.alist_alba_is_a_real_supergirl.php | title = A-list Alba is a real supergirl | publisher = Burnham & Highbridge Weekly News | date = 2007-06-14 | accessdate = 2007-12-12}}</ref> Her maternal grandfather was a Marine NCO for 30 years, serving in the Pacific during WWII, and later as Asst. Drum Major for the United States Marine Band. Alba was raised in an Air Force family, along with her brother, Joshua<ref>Joshua appeared with his sister Jessica in the season one finale of Dark Angel -- {{subst:PAGENAME}}</ref> and her grandparents, until she was seventeen years old. Her father's Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi and Del Rio, Texas, before they settled back in California.
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>{{cite web www.mediatakeout.com/7187/jessica_alba_dont_call_me_a_latina.html//www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,22244110-5006050,00.html | title = My obsession | last = Cullen | first = Denise | format = Reprint from Sunday Telegraph | publisher = News.au.com | date = 2007-08-19 | accessdate = 2007-12-12}}</ref><ref>Interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno; September 26, 2005</ref> Her health improved, however, when her family moved to California. She graduated from high school at age 16<ref>{{cite web www.mediatakeout.com/7187/jessica_alba_dont_call_me_a_latina.html//www.netglimse.com/celebs/bio/jessica_alba.shtml | title = Jessica Alba graduated from high school at 16 | publisher = Netglimse.com | accessdate = 2007-11-02}}</ref> and subsequently attended the Atlantic Theater Company.
Career
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>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.
Film career
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Public image
Reception
www.askmen.com/specials/2006_top_99/jessica-alba-1.html 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>//www.askmen.com/specials/2006_top_99/jessica-alba-1.html 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>
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www.moono.com/news/news01099.html "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.//www.moono.com/news/news01099.html "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.
Charity
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Personal life
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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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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:
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 | |
| 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) |
Awards and nominations
- 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)
- 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)
- Won: Best Actress on Television, Dark Angel (2001)
- Nominated: Best Actress in a Television Series, Dark Angel (2002)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actress, Sin City (2006)
- Nominated: Worst Actress, Fantastic Four (2006)
- Nominated: Worst Actress, Into the Blue (2006)
- Won: Best Actress in a DVD Premiere Movie, The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
- Nominated: Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama, Dark Angel (2001)
- Nominated: Best Actress, Fantastic Four (2006)
- Nominated: est Performance in a TV Drama Series - Leading Young Actress, Dark Angel (2001)
- Nominated: Little Screen/Big Screen Star (Women) (2007)
TV Guide Awards
- Nominated: Actress of the Year in a New Series, Dark Angel (2001)
- Won: Breakout Star of the Year, Dark Angel (2001)
- Won: Hottest Jessica (2007)
Young Hollywood Awards
- Won: Superstar of Tomorrow (2005)
YoungStar Awards
- Nominated: Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Daytime TV Program, Flipper (1998)
