The two-week job stretched to two months, and Jessica ended the film with an impressive first credit. Jessica cheerfully admits it wasn't her prodigious talent or charm that inspired the director to tap her to take over the part-it was her hair, which matched the original performer's. Originally hired for two weeks, she got her break when an actress in a principal role suddenly dropped out. She made her feature film debut in 1993 in Hollywood Pictures' comedy Camp Nowhere (1994). A gifted young actress, Jessica has played a variety of roles ranging from light comedy to gritty drama since beginning her career. She studied at the Atlantic Theatre Company with founders William H. Nine months later she was signed by an agent. In love with the idea of becoming an actress from the age of five, she was 12 before she took her first acting class. Three years later her father's career brought the family back to California, then to Del Rio, TX, before finally settling in Southern California when Jessica was nine. Her family moved to Biloxi, MS, when she was an infant. Her father is of Mexican descent (including Spanish and Indigenous Mexican roots), and her mother has Danish, Welsh, English, and French ancestry. Jessica Marie Alba was born on April 28, 1981, in Pomona, CA, to Catherine (Jensen) and Mark David Alba, who served in the US Air Force.
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