Jessica Marie Alba, a talented and gorgeous native of Pomona, Ca, was born on April 28 in 1981. Her mother is Catherine Jensen, a Danish, Welsh, German, English and French-Canadian woman and her father, Mark David Alba, is a Spanish, Indigenous Mexican with Sephardic Jewish roots, served in the US Air Force.
When she was just a baby, her father was stationed in Biloxi, MS (my old stomping grounds), however, they didn't stay long. They were deployed and moved to California and eventually, they landed in Del Rio, Texas before settling down in Southern Cal. I don't know if you have ever been to California, but it's a beautiful state full of opportunities. Jessica took advantage of those opportunities and studied acting at the Atlantic Theatre Company. By the time she was 12 years old, she was signed by an agent.…show more content… Her film debut came in 1993 (Camp Nowhere). She was not hired for the role she starred in, but rather her break came when someone quit suddenly and... get this... it was because of her hair that she scored the better role. Her short term initial part turned into a spotlight that lasted for a couple of months and she impressed a lot of people. She then went on to do two national television commercials and several independent films. In 1994, she received a recurring role in a comedy series for Nickelodeon called The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). Later that year, she portrayed “Maya” in Flipper. The success of the show lasted until
