Who is Jessica Alba

In 2010, Jessica Alba will appear as Mona Gray in An Invisible Sign of My Own based on the book by author Aimee Bender about a math whiz who becomes an elementary teacher when she discovers an extraordinary talent for teaching while she cares for her ailing father.

Valentines Day will have Alba cast alongside Taylor Lautner, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher and Jamie Foxx in a romantic tale that involes intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles that break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day.

The Killer Inside Me is filming and Alba plays Joyce Lakeland. Also features Kate Hudson and Casey Affleck. The story is about a deputy sheriff in West Texas who is slowly discovered to be a psychotic killer. This one will not be ready until next year.

Meet The Fockers Sequel, where Ben Stiller and Teri Polo reprise their roles in the previous Meet The Fockers and Meet The Parents movies as they prepare for the arrival of a baby. Robert De Niro, Barbara Streisand and Dustin Hoffman are also slated to appear.

First Love, Then Marriage has Alba as a happily newlywed marriage counselor who's own views on marriage get thrown for a loop when her parents announce they are divorcing. Christopher Walken and Blythe Danner are set to appear as Alba's parents.

Sin City 2, where Alba reprises her role as Nancy Callahan is currently in "pre-production", which means the production company is trying to get their respective ducks in order, lining up the talent, securing locations, that sort of thing. Word is that the plot will follow several storylines, including Nancy dealing with the death of Hartigan (Bruce Willis). Mickey Rourke may be in this one too, again as Marv, and Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson, Brittany Murphy are in for sure, with Rose McGowan and Antonio Banderas also rumored as possible castmates. Slated for release in 2010.

Jessica Alba was born 28 April, 1981 in Pomona, California. Her father was a tennis player on the pro circuit before joining the Air Force. Her family moved to Biloxi, Mississippi but shortly afterwards, when Jessica was 3 years old, then moved back to California and then again to Del Rio, Texas. Finally returning to Southern California about 1990. Nine months after taking some acting lessons at age 12, Alba had an agent and had a part in the 1994 movie Camp Nowhere. She then had a couple of high profile commercials (Nintendo and J.C. Penney).

That same year she won the role of the snobbish Jessica for 3 episodes of The Secret World of Alex Mack and then went right into making the TV series Flipper which ran from 1995-2000. Although Flipper lasted 5 years, Alba was there for only 2 years, playing Maya Graham for 11 episodes.

She made one very forgettable movie called Venus Rising in 1995. She then popped up for 2 episodes of the popular teen show Beverly Hills 90210 as Leanne. Her movie career started to take off at this point, with roles in Never Been Kissed with Drew Barrymore and as Molly in the horror spoof Idle Hands.

Then in 2000, Jessica Alba got the role of Maya Graham in Dark Angel. The show lasted for 2 years and Alba appeared in 42 episodes of the sci-fi thriller. Basically, she played Max, one of a group of genetically-enhanced children that escaped from a lab project. Years later, she works for a messenger service in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest. Odd, but somewhat interesting.

Dark Angel
The Complete First Season

Dark Angel: The Complete First Season

Jessica Alba is impressive as Max, bred and trained as a super-soldier but reclaiming her individual humanity; Michael Weatherly is scruffily attractive as Eyes Only, who sits semi-paralyzed in his eyrie above Seattle uncovering crime, corruption, and other skullduggeries and assigning deadly errands to the woman he hopelessly loves. Jon Savage has real authority as Lydeker, a man who has stretched his conscience to the breaking point, but is not personally corrupt.

Some of the best episodes--"Prodigy," for example--are ones in which Lydeker and Max are forced into temporary alliance.

Early on, the relationship between Max and the other workers at Jam Pony--the courier firm that provides her with a cover identity--is a little forced, but later on the two parts of Max's life are more successfully integrated: "Shorties in Love," for example, is a genuinely touching tale about Diamond, the doomed criminal ex-lover of Max's lesbian roommate. Dark Angel was never a perfect show, but at its occasional best it manages to be simultaneously funny and dramatic.

After the Dark
(Dark Angel)

Dark Angel: After the Dark

In a chaotic world where the lines between good and evil often blur, and violent anarchy and brutal repression become commonplace, secrets can be deadly. So when Max discovers a shattering truth that Logan has kept concealed from her for years, the betrayal threatens the very essence of their trust.

Yet when Logan is kidnapped, all questions of truth and loyalty are cast aside. Max's search will lead her to a familiar, menacing enemy-and back into the shadow of the Snake Cult, which waits for her with chilling anticipation.

But the search will also lead her into wholly unexpected territory. Locked in the fight of her life, Max will discover a captive of the cult who can provide her with the one thing that has haunted her ever since she escaped from Manticore. . . .

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James Cameron's Dark Angel:
The Complete Second Season

James Cameron's Dark Angel: The Complete Second Season

The second and last season of Dark Angel, the inventive James Cameron show about mutants during a future Depression, has some real strengths as well as one or two bad ideas that partly explain its much-regretted cancellation. Among the strengths are Alex (Jensen Ackles), the thoroughly unreliable mutant charmer whose flirtations with heroine Max (Jessica Alba) complicate her doomed love for Logan (Michael Weatherly), the crippled newshound whom she cannot now even touch--she has been infected with a deadly virus tailored specifically to kill him.

The distrust this sows between the doomed couple does not always avoid soap-opera clichés, but often produces fine performances from all three, especially Alba.

On the deficit side, John Savage's memorably ambiguous villain Lydeker from season 1 (who is alternately the mutants' nemesis and their protector) disappears to be replaced by the melodramatically sinister Agent White (Martin Cummins).