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Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Dark Angel, Sin City, Fantastic Four and Into the Blue. She is regularly listed by magazines as one of the most beautiful or sexiest women alive. She has a tattoo of a daisy with a ladybird on it on the back of her neck, and the Sanskrit symbol for lotus flower, “padma”, on her wrist.

Alba was born in Pomona, California to Mark Alba, who is of Mexican descent, and Cathy Jensen, who has French-Canadian and Danish ancestry. Alba was raised in an Air Force family, along with her brother, Joshua Alba, and her grandparents until she was seventeen. She grew up a sports fanatic. 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 burst appendix, a cyst on her tonsils and asthma. She had a kidney infection in 2001.This served to isolate 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. She also revealed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that she suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder as a child. Her health improved, however, when her family moved to California. She suffers from motion sickness, which developed after childhood.

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 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. Alba’s 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 was picked to replace her because her hair matched that of the original actress. Young Alba appeared in two national TV commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney; she was later featured in several independent films.

Playboy magazine named Alba among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities, and the Sex Star of the Year in its March 2006 issue, on whose cover she appeared. During an interview with GQ magazine, Alba said that in her teen years she became a born-again Christian in a rebellion against her parents. She left her church after being accused of being promiscuous and wearing provocative clothing. As the daughter of conservative parents, Alba, whose grandparents did not even 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 at least open to the possibility of appearing nude in Sin City. She has said that she has no problem with one night stands, but that she no longer dates around.

Jessica Alba Awards and Achievements

2006: (Maxim) top 100- Most beautiful woman alive

ALMA Awards

2001: Won Special Achievement Award, Breakthrough Actress of the Year

TV Guide Awards

2001: Won Breakout Star of the Year for James Cameron’s Dark Angel

Saturn Award

2000: Won Best Actress on Television for Dark Angel