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Biography
| Jessica and her family moved to Biloxi, Mississippi, when she was still an infant but three years later her Air Force father took the family back to California and then to Del Rio, Texas before finally settling down in Southern California when Jessica was nine. She was 12 when she took her first acting class and nine months later she got signed by an agent. A gifted young actress, Jessica has already played a variety of roles ranging from light comedy to gritty drama since beginning her career. She made her feature film debut in 1993 in Hollywood Pictures' comedy Camp Nowhere (1994).She was originally hired for two weeks but got her break when an actress in a principal role suddenly dropped out. Jessica cheerfully admits it wasn't her prodigious talent or charm that inspired the director to give her the part and it was her hair which matched the original performer's. The two-week job stretched to two months and Jessica ended the film with an impressive first credit. Two national TV commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney quickly followed after which Jessica featured in several independent films. She branched out into TV in 1994 with a recurring role in Nickelodeon's popular comedy series "The Secret World of Alex Mack" (1994 and that same year won the role of Maya in "Flipper" and after filming the pilot for the series and she spent most of 1995 shooting the first season's episodes in Australia. In 2000 she had roles in Paranoid (2000/1) and starred in the sci-fi TV series "Dark Angel" (2000). |
Other
| High school graduate | |
| Cash Warren (assistant director), Michael Weatherly (actor; born on July 8, 1968; engaged in May 2001; broke up) | |
| Cathy Alba (French/Danish; born in Montreal) | |
| Mark Alba (Spanish/Mexican-American; real estate owner, once joined US Air Force) | |
| Joshua Alba (actor; born on July 8, 1982) |