Jessica Marie Alba was on born April 28, 198. She
is an American actress. She is perhaps best known
for her roles in Dark Angel, Honey, Sin City and the
Fantastic Four.
She was born in Pomona, California to Mark
Alba and Cathy Jensen. Her father is a Mexican
American, while her maternal grandfather was of
Danish descent and her Canadian maternal grandmother
was of French, Irish and Italian descent. Alba was
raised in an Air Force family, living with her
heavily Catholic parents, her brother Joshua, and
her grandparents until she was sixteen. She grew up
a sports fanatic. Her father's Air Force career took
the family to Biloxi, Mississippi, and Del Rio,
Texas, before they settled back in California when
she was nine. Alba's early life had been marked by a
multitude of physical maladies, as she suffered
collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 times a
year, a burst appendix, a cyst on her tonsils, and
asthma. 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.
Alba had expressed interest in acting since the age
of five. She took her first acting class at age
twelve, and she was signed by an acting agent nine
months later.
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