Line #28 Creator/JessicaAlba


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2	->''"Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be."''
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4	Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981 in Pomona, UsefulNotes/{{California}}) is an American actor of Mexican and Danish descent.
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6	Alba started her acting career as a teenager in the 1990s, playing in a few independent films, making a few appearances on ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack,'' and doing a couple seasons of the revived ''Series/{{Flipper}}'' series. Her lead role in ''Series/DarkAngel'' (which she won by being picked by Creator/JamesCameron from over 1000 candidates) made for her [[StarMakingRole breakthrough]], and she would go on to achieve worldwide recognition with various film roles throughout the 2000s -- including the title role of ''Film/{{Honey}}'', a stripper in ''Film/SinCity'', and Invisible Woman in the ''Film/FantasticFourDuology''.
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8	Many of these roles featured Alba playing a MsFanservice type to some extent, which helped cement her status as one of the most attractive celebrities of her day to many fans and magazines alike. However, she has publicly commented that when she was starting out in her career, she preferred not to use her sex appeal to get advantages and had fears of being [[TypeCasting typecast]] in "whore" parts. She also made it a point to have a personal code about never appearing in the nude, which she upholds to this day.
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10	In 2008, Alba married Cash Warren, with whom she has two daughters, Honor and Haven, and a son, Hayes. In recent years, she's devoted more time to motherhood than acting, starting a retail brand called The Honest Company (specializing in non-toxic household products) and authoring ''The Honest Life'', a book about this lifestyle. The company became highly successful, and Alba's net worth is [[http://www.forbes.com/profile/jessica-alba/ estimated to be $340 million]].
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12	She has accounts on [[http://twitter.com/jessicaalba Twitter]], [[https://www.instagram.com/jessicaalba/ Instagram]] and [[https://www.tiktok.com/@jessicaalba TikTok]].
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14	Despite looking entirely different and both having been in ''Film/ValentinesDay'' (albeit never in the same scene), she is occasionally confused with Creator/JessicaBiel.
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17	!Selected filmography:
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19	[[folder:Live-Action Films]]
20	* ''Film/CampNowhere'' (1994) as Gail
21	* ''Film/VenusRising'' (1995) as Young Eve
22	* ''Film/{{PUNKS}}'' (1999) as Samantha Swoboda
23	* ''Film/NeverBeenKissed'' (1999) as Kirsten
24	* ''Film/IdleHands'' (1999) as Molly
25	* ''Film/{{Paranoid\|2000}}'' (2000) as Chloe
26	* ''Film/TheSleepingDictionary'' (2003) as Selima
27	* ''Film/{{Honey}}'' (2003) as Honey Daniels
28	* ''Film/SinCity'' (2005) as Nancy Callahan
29	* ''Film/{{Fantastic Four\|2005}}'' (2005) as [[ComicBook/InvisibleWoman Susan Storm]]
30	* ''Film/IntoTheBlue'' (2005) as Sam
31	* ''Film/TheTen'' (2007) as Liz Anne Blazer
32	* ''Film/KnockedUp'' (2007) as AsHerself
33	* ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer'' (2007) as [[ComicBook/InvisibleWoman Susan Storm]]
34	* ''Film/GoodLuckChuck'' (2007) as Cam Wexler
35	* ''Film/MeetBill'' (2007) as Lucy
36	* ''Film/{{Awake\|2007}}'' (2007) as Sam Lockwood
37	* ''Film/TheEye'' (2008) as Sydney Wells
38	* ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' (2008) as Jane Bullard
39	* ''Film/ValentinesDay'' (2010) as Morley Clarkson
40	* ''Film/TheKillerInsideMe'' (2010) as Joyce Lakeland
41	* ''Film/AnInvisibleSign'' (2010) as Mona Gray
42	* ''Film/{{Machete}}'' (2010) as Sartana
43	* ''Film/LittleFockers'' (2010) as Andi Garcia
44	* ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld'' (2011) as Marissa Wilson
45	* ''Film/{{ACOD}}'' (2013) as Michelle
46	* ''WesternAnimation/EscapeFromPlanetEarth'' (2013) as Lena (voice)
47	* ''Film/MacheteKills'' (2013) as Sartana ([[TheCameo uncredited cameo]])
48	* ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor '' (2013) as Nancy Callahan
49	* ''Film/{{Stretch}}'' (2013) as Charlie
50	* ''Film/SomeKindOfBeautiful'' (2014) as Kate
51	* ''Film/BarelyLethal'' (2015) as Victoria Knox
52	* ''Film/{{Entourage}}'' (2013) AsHerself
53	* ''Film/BabyBabyBaby'' (2015) as Susie
54	* ''Film/TheVeil'' (2016) as Maggie Price
55	* ''Film/DearEleanor'' (2016) as Daisy
56	* ''Film/MechanicResurrection'' (2016) as Gina
57	* ''Film/ElCaminoChristmas'' (2017) as Beth Flowers
58	* ''Film/KillersAnonymous'' (2019) as Jade
59	[[/folder]]
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61	[[folder:Live-Action Series]]
62	* ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack'' (1994) as Jessica
63	* ''Series/{{Flipper}}'' (1995 -- 1997) as Maya Graham
64	* ''Series/ABCAfterschoolSpecial'' (1996) as Christy
65	* ''Series/ChicagoHope'' (1996) as Florie Hernandez
66	* ''Series/BrooklynSouth'' (1998) as Melissa Hauer
67	* ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' (1998) as Leanne
68	* ''Series/LoveBoatTheNextWave'' (1998) as Layla
69	* ''Series/DarkAngel'' (2000 -- 2002) as Max Guevara / X5-452
70	* ''Series/MADtv'' (2003) as Jessica Simpson
71	* ''Series/RockMeBaby'' (2004) AsHerself
72	* ''Series/{{Entourage}}'' (2004) AsHerself
73	* ''Series/{{Trippin}}'' (2005) AsHerself
74	* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' (2009) as Sophie
75	* ''Series/ProjectRunway'' (2010) as Herself (guest judge)
76	* ''Series/ComedyBangBang'' (2013) as Herself
77	* ''Series/TheSpoilsOfBabylon'' (2014) as Dixie Mellonworth
78	* ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' (2015) as Herself (guest judge)
79	* ''Series/PlanetOfTheApps'' (2017) as Herself
80	* ''Series/NoActivity'' (2018) as The Actress
81	* ''Series/LAsFinest'' (2019) as Nancy [=McKenna=]
82	* ''WesternAnimation/StoryBotsAnswerTime'' (2023) as Ms Pizza Delivery Lady
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85	!!Tropes associated with her work include:
86	* AwesomeDearBoy: [[invoked]] She starred in the ''Fantastic Four'' films and ''Dark Angel'' because she wanted to play a superhero.
87	* CreatorBacklash:
88	** You don't like the second season of ''Series/DarkAngel''? She doesn't, either, judging by her bashing it in the commentary for the season one finale.
89	** She had some issues with the scripts for the ''Fantastic Four'' films, especially when Sue strips off. Naturally, it made Sue equally distressed.
90	%%* CreatorBreakdown: She suffered one while doing ''Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer''.
91	* DyeingForYourArt: She dyed her hair blonde for the first ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' film, but wore a wig for the second. She also wore blue contact lenses.
92	* FakeNationality: She's half-English, half-Malaysian in ''The Sleeping Dictionary''.
93	* FollowTheLeader: [[invoked]] While she's certainly not the first Hollywood celebrity to launch a lifestyle brand, The Honest Company's success targeting young mothers combined with her relatively young fame meant a lot of female actors began following suit by launching lifestyle websites.
94	* FountainOfExpies: [[invoked]]
95	** After ''Honey'' became a hit, Alesia Glidewell, who sounds like Jessica's picked to voice Carmelita Fox for ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves''. Fitting that Carmelita and Jessica are sexy women of Mexican ancestry and that both of them are born in 1981.
96	** In a ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' book, there's a fish named Jessica [[{{Pun}} Albacore]]. Funny enough, she's a fan of the cartoon.
97	* Gasshole: She won the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards for best burp, and boasted about her belching talents in an interview.
98	* IAmNotLeonardNimoy: No matter what she acts in, many people think it's just Jessica being sexy.
99	* IAmNotSpock: Diehard Marvel fans expect her to be invisible in non-Fantastic Four movies.
100	* MsFanservice: Her personal code against nudity notwithstanding, directors can't seem to resist having at least one scantily-dressed/suggested-nude scene in any film she does, regardless of whether it makes sense or not. She was apparently nude in two movies, but ''The Sleeping Dictionary'' used body doubles and her ShowerScene in ''Film/{{Machete}}'' involved [[DigitalBikini digitally removed underwear]].
101	** ''Film/TheKillerInsideMe'' goes in [[{{FanDisservice}} the other direction]].
102	* OldShame:
103	** In an interview with the British magazine ''Arena'' promoting ''Film/FantasticFour2005'', she bad-mouthed two of her pre-''Series/DarkAngel'' movies -- ''Film/Paranoid2000'' and ''The Sleeping Dictionary'' -- ''and'' her performances in them.
104	** She stated that she thought ''Film/GoodLuckChuck'' was borderline pornographic, ''Film/TheKillerInsideMe'' was gratuitously violent (she's stated she doesn't want her daughters to see it), and would admit much later that she hated working on the ''Film/FantasticFourDuology'' movies so much that she almost quit acting.
105	* JustForFun/OneOfUs: [[invoked]] Jessica Alba's a fan of Creator/JamesCameron's work, ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and hip-hop dancing. See her Instagram and [=TikTok=] for proof.
106	* PlayingAgainstType: ''An Invisible Sign'' - a rare non-{{fanservice}}y role for her as a mousy, withdrawn math teacher.
107	* ProductionPosse: She's now done five films with Creator/RobertRodriguez.
108	* RomanceOnTheSet:
109	** She was in a relationship with co-star Creator/MichaelWeatherly during ''Dark Angel''; they were even engaged for a while, but they ultimately ended the relationship in 2003. She heavily hinted in later interviews through the years that she lost her virginity to him.
110	** She met her future husband Cash Warren while filming ''Film/{{Fantastic Four\|2005}}''.
111	* StarDerailingRole: ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' dealt a fatal blow to her already declining big-screen career, not helped by the lukewarm responses to ''Film/{{Machete}}'' and ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld''. ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor'' later bombing at the box office was the last nail on her major movie career. In 2019, she returned to series on television[[note]]or streaming television if you're in the US due to it being made for Crackle[[/note]] in the ''Film/BadBoys1995'' spinoff ''Series/LAsFinest'', playing Nancy [=McKenna=] (the partner of the sequel's Syd Burnett). Fortunately, her billion-dollar household goods company was taking off around this time, giving her an estimated net worth around $300 million, so don't worry -- [[EarnYourHappyEnding she's doing just fine]].
112	* StarMakingRole: ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' and ''Film/SinCity'' consolidated her in film after ''Series/DarkAngel'' had brought her to a lot of people's attention on TV ([[TestosteroneBrigade especially the male variety]]).

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