Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). Alba raised to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002). Alba later appeared in various films including Honey (2003), Sin City (2005), Fantastic Four (2005), Into the Blue (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck both in 2007.
Alba is considered a sex symbol and often generates media attention for her looks. She appears on the "Hot 100" section of Maxim and was voted number one on AskMen.com's list of "99 Most Desirable Women" in 2006, as well as "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM in 2007. The use of her image on the cover of the March 2006 Playboy sparked a lawsuit by her, which was later dropped. She has also 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.
Favorites of Jessica Alba:
- Sports: Golf and Swimming
- Pastime: Cooking (her specialty chicken enchiladas and tortillas)
- TV Show: The Simpsons
- Color: Purple
- Day of the Week: Friday
- Brands: Dolce & Gabana and Prada
Honors and Rankings of Jessica Alba:
- Jessica was #1 on Maxim's Hot 100 Babe List in 2001.
- In FHM's Sexiest Girls of 2002 Jessica came in at number 6.
- In the Top 10 Sci-Fi Babes of 2002 Jessica, was voted 4th for her role as Max in Dark Angel.
- In Stuff Magazine's 102 Sexiest Women in the World of 2002, Jessica ranked 12th.
- Jessica ranked #20 on Maxim's Hot 100 list in 2003
- Jessica ranked #9 on Maxim's Hot 100 list in 2004
- Jessica was among Teen People's 25 Hottest Stars Under 25 in 2005.
- Jessica ranked #5 on Maxim's Hot 100 list in 2005
- Jessica ranked #2 on Maxim's Hot 100 list in 2006
- In March 2006, Jessica was named the "Sex Star of the Year" by the Playboy Magazine.
- Jessica was voted as the #3 fantasy girlfriend in a poll conducted by AskMen.com for the Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2007.
- Jessica Alba has been named as "The Sexiest Women Of 2007" in FHM.
- Jessica was chosen as one of People Magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful People in May 2007. - Jessica ranked #2 on Maxim's Hot 100 list in 2007
- Jessica was ranked #3 on FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World of 2008 list.
- Jessica is ranked #72 in the "100 Hottest Blondes of AIM".
- Jessica is ranked #19 in the "100 Hottest Brunettes of AIM".
Public Image of Jessica Alba:
In 2001, Alba was ranked No. 1 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list. She said that "I have to go to certain lengths to use sexuality to my advantage, while guiding people to thinking the way I want them to." 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 their 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.
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.
When reports surfaced that a 21-year-old Chinese girl was seeking plastic surgery to resemble Alba in order to win back an ex-boyfriend, the star spoke out against the perceived need to change one's appearance for love.
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, while in 2007, Maxim Magazine placed Alba on the number 2 spot of their "Top 100". Both GQ and In Style had Alba on their June 2008 covers, and in May, after eight million votes, FHM (UK and USA editions) named Alba the winner as "2007's Sexiest Woman in the World". Alba has been regarded as one of the world's most attractive women, being named to Maxim's Hot 100 in 2008. In 2007, Alba was ranked in at #1 in FHM's Sexiest Girls of 2007 poll, in the magazine's Latvian edition. Alba was ranked #4 on Empire Magazine's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars in 2007. In 2006 and 2007, Alba was voted #1 as the sexiest woman in the world by the Norwegian FHM. 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. In 2008, Alba was ranked #34 on Maxim 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 is the only woman who has made the Maxim Magazine Hot 100 list in all the years it was published; from 2000 to 2011.
Relationships and family life of Jessica Alba:
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 twelve 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. In July 2007, Alba spoke out about the break up, saying "I don't know [why I got engaged]. I was a virgin. He was 12 years older than me. I thought he knew better. My parents weren't happy. They're really religious. They believe God wouldn't allow the Bible to be written if it wasn't what they are supposed to believe. I'm completely different." Alba had at one time said she envisioned a much older man as her ideal partner, making references to Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, and Michael Caine. She said, "I have this thing for older men. They've been around and know so much."
Alba met Cash Warren, son of actor Michael Warren, while making Fantastic Four in 2004. 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. On February 16, 2011, Alba confirmed that she and Warren are expecting their second child.
Jessica Alba in a Relationship:She is not easily moved by emotional displays and can be curiously detached from her own emotions and those of others. It is almost as if she could turn her feelings on and off at will; Jessica should be careful not to leave the switch "off" too often, for she could easily become too impersonal. Family relationships and attachments are not as important to her as they are to most people and Alba often considers her friends closer to her than her blood relatives. Certainly, Alba's sympathy and concern extends much beyond her immediate family. In her personal relationships, Jessica Alba insists upon a certain amount of independence and the freedom to pursue friendships with as many people, of both sexes, as she chooses. Jessica does not appreciate a jealous, possessive partner.
Alba has a sympathetic nature and instinctively reaches out to people in need of help. Alba also has a deeply ingrained tendency to want to improve or "fix" other people's lives, which can be annoying to the person who has no desire to be changed or "helped" in this way. For Jessica, affection and caring must be expressed in tangible acts or service of some kind.
Jessica Alba craves excitement, change and discovery, and cannot tolerate a routine or lifestyle that offers little in the way of surprise or challenge. Excitable, spontaneous and enthusiastic about anything new, she may be perceived by others as being too impulsive, especially in personal relationships. It is not easy for Jessica Alba to make or keep commitments, since she does not know how she will be feeling from one day to the next. Emotional freedom is very important to Alba. Her domestic life may be very unstable - but Alba likes it that way.
Jessica Alba feels comfortable in an atmosphere that is open and experimental, and she has little taste for convention and tradition.
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Jessica Alba tends to surround herself with people who are gentle, sensitive, peace-loving, and artistically or spiritually inclined, and there is a strong element of mutual compassion and sympathy in her personal relationships. It is easy for Jessica to tune in psychically to other people's feelings and emotional worlds. Jessica Alba may share this type of telepathic link with her mother, sisters, or female friends in particular.
She enjoys emotional intensity and is attracted to the mysterious, the unknown, and dangerous or challenging experiences that draw on all of her inner resources. She is able to handle an emotional crisis very well and is interested in the underlying root of emotional problems and how to cure them. Jessica Alba insists on bringing feelings between people out into the open, for she craves real closeness and intimacy in her relationships, without barriers or secrets.
Jessica Alba seems to have a quick temper, is somewhat irritable and tends to get upset easily. Jessica Alba may also have frequent changes of mood; in fact, her feelings could change from one minute to the next. She also tends to act without sufficient deliberation.
In love relationships, Jessica Alba is steadfast and loyal, especially if she has a warm, demonstrative partner. She is very sensual in nature and craves plenty of touching and physical affection. Jessica enjoys being pampered with a good meal, a loving massage or other sensual delights. She is a wonderful lover who is very attentive to the comfort and enjoyment of her loved one. Jessica Alba responds intensely to beauty and physical appearance, and the physical attractiveness of her partner is very important to her.
Jessica is attracted to foreigners, exotic places, traveling, and to people who can expand her horizons, teach her something, or show Alba places and worlds she has never experienced before. Sharing a philosophy or ideal with her love partner is important to her.
Also, Jessica Alba feels love and kinship for people everywhere, not only with her own family, nationality, or group. Finding similarities and making links between people from differing backgrounds or with different perspectives is a gift of hers.
She is inclined to do everything with love and may even be in love with her profession. At times Jessica Alba is apt to consider her work as a substitute for a partner, but she could also show some narcissistic tendencies.
Her attitude could be a bit too optimistic, especially in regards to love relationships. Jessica Alba loves to day-dream and may have many romantic and erotic imaginations that never materialize. She may have a flair for writing beautiful love poems.
Her energy and initiative seem to be a bit weak and could frequently inhibit Jessica's sex life. Her unrealistic ideals about relationships could lead to disillusionment, and Jessica Alba may feel that real mortals are disappointing, and prefer her fantasies.
Charity and political Activities of Jessica Alba:
In 2005, Alba offered her acting talents for free, to raise money for AIDS charity Amfar at the Cannes Film Festival. The Industry had held a benefit for the US research foundation. Alba had caused "the greatest stir" by promising to star as an unpaid actress in one of The Lord of the Rings producer Bob Weinstein's movies, if Weinstein agreed to bid $100,000 for tennis lessons with sports stars Monica Seles and Boris Becker.
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. Alba openly endorsed and supported Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama during the 2008 primary season. Alba is an ambassador for the 1Goal movement to provide education to children in Africa.
Alba posed for a bondage-themed print advertising campaign by Declare Yourself, a campaign encouraging voter registration among youth for the 2008 United States presidential election. The ads photographed by Mark Liddell, which feature Alba wrapped in and gagged with black tape, drew national media attention. The ads were described by some as being "Shocking". Alba said of doing the advertisements that "it didn't freak me out at all." Alba also said "I think it is important for young people to be aware of the need we have in this country to get them more active politically," and "People respond to things that are shocking."
In June 2009, while filming The Killer Inside Me in Oklahoma City, Alba was involved in a controversy with residents when she pasted posters of sharks around town. Alba said that she was trying to bring attention to the diminishing population of great white sharks. Media outlets speculated that Alba would be pursued and charged with vandalism. On June 16, 2009, Oklahoma City police said that they would not pursue criminal charges against Alba, because none of the property owners wanted to pursue it. Alba apologized in a statement to People magazine and said that she regretted her actions. She later donated an undisclosed amount of money (over $500) to the United Way, whose billboard she had obscured with one of the shark posters.
In 2011, Alba participated in a two day lobbying effort in Washington D.C. in support of the Safe Chemicals Act, a revision of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976.
Filmography of Jessica Alba:
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1994 | Camp Nowhere | Gail | Film debut |
1995 | Venus Rising | Young Eve | |
1999 | P.U.N.K.S. | Samantha Swoboda | |
Never Been Kissed | Kirsten Liosis | ||
Idle Hands | Molly | ||
2000 | Paranoid | Chloe | |
2003 | The Sleeping Dictionary | Selima | DVD Exclusive Award for Best Actress in a DVD Premiere Movie |
Honey | Honey Daniels | Teen Choice Award for Breakout Movie Star, Actress - Drama/Action Adventure, Chemistry and Liplock Nominated | |
2005 | Sin City | Nancy Callahan | MTV Movie Award for Sexiest Performance Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Alma Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated — Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards for Best Ensemble Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast |
Fantastic Four | Sue Storm / Invisible Woman | Nominated — Imagen Foundation Award for Best Actress Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Hero | |
Into the Blue | Sam | ||
2007 | Knocked Up | Herself | Uncredited Cameo |
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Sue Storm / Invisible Woman | Blimp Award for Favorite Female Movie Star | |
The Ten | Liz Anne Blazer | ||
Good Luck Chuck | Cam Wexler | ||
Awake | Sam Lockwood | ||
2008 | The Eye | Sydney Wells | Teen Choice Award for Actress: Horror/Thriller |
Meet Bill | Lucy | ||
The Love Guru | Jane Bullard | ||
2010 | Valentine's Day | Morely Clarkson | |
The Killer Inside Me | Joyce Lakeland[99] | ||
Machete | Special Agent Sartana Rivera | ||
An Invisible Sign | Mona Gray | ||
Little Fockers | Andi Garcia[100][101] | ||
2011 | Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World | Marissa Cortez Wilson |
Awards gained by Jessica Alba:
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Year | Awards | Category | Nominated Work | Result |
2001 | ALMA Award | Breakthrough Actress of the Year | None | Won |
2005 | Young Hollywood Awards | Superstar of Tomorrow | None | Won |
2007 | TV Land Awards | Little Screen / Big Screen Star (Women) | None | Nominated |
Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards | Hottest Jessica | None | Won | |
2008 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Female Action Star | None | Nominated |
People's Choice Awards | Favorite Leading Lady | None | Nominated |
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