Jessica Alba Birth Date: April 28, 1981 Birth
Place: Pomona, California
One of the crop of bright-eyed, dewy-skinned young actors to attain teen idoldom and a regular
paycheck during the late 1990s, Jessica Alba closed out the century as one of Hollywood's more promising new talents.
Born in Pomona, California, on April 28, 1981, Alba, whose father was in the Air Force, moved
with her family to Biloxi, Mississippi, when she was an infant, but she eventually moved back to California nine years later.
It was back in California that she embarked on an acting career: having been in love
with the idea of acting since she was five, Alba took her first acting class at the age
of 12, and nine months later, she landed her first agent.
She got her start on television, making appearances on shows like Beverly Hills 90210, and she made her film debut in the 1994 kids comedy Camp Nowhere.
Following her debut, Alba did a great deal of work on television. She got her first substantial
film role as the object of the protagonist's disastrous affection in the teen horror comedy Idle
Hands in 1999; that same year, she played one of the nasty popular girls who terrorize Drew Barrymore in the romantic comedy
Never Been Kissed.
The following year Alba made waves on the small screen when she was cast in the much hyped Fox
series Dark Angel. Executive produced by James Cameron, the rising starlet was cast as a genetically-engeneered woman who
escapes from the lab and joins a cyberjournalist named, Though the series was cancelled after two seasons, Alba continued
to appear in such features as Paranoid (2000) and The Sleeping Dictionary (2003).
Jessica had the looks to make us believe she was a genetically-enhanced
woman in Dark Angle, and has the body to make any guy want to go see a chick flick like Honey. Even though she's been away from the spotlight for a few years, Jessica has always been on
our minds.
After big-screen roles in Never Been Kissed and
Idle Hands, Jessica Alba became the first "It" girl of the century as the title role in James Cameron's sci-fi TV series,
Dark Angel. Back from a short hiatus, she starred in the hip-hop dance flick Honey in 2003 and the star-studded
SIN CITY in 2005.
She may only be in her early 20s, but Jessica Alba has seen a meteoric rise in fame in a short period
of time and managed to stage a successful comeback, a feat that is almost unheard of in Hollywood.
