Jessica Alba
Alba in 2010
Birth Name: Jessica Marie Alba
Place of Birth: Pomona, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: April 28, 1981
Ethnicity:
*father – Mexican [including Spanish, Indigenous Mexican/Mayan, distant Sephardi Jewish and African]
*mother – Danish, Welsh, English, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, French
Jessica Alba is an American actress, model, and businessperson. Her roles include the films Camp Nowhere, Idle Hands, Honey, Frank Miller’s Sin City, Fantastic Four (2005), and their respective sequels; Good Luck Chuck, The Eye (2008), Meet Bill, Valentine’s Day, Machete, and its sequel; Little Fockers, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, and Mechanic: Resurrection, and the series The Secret World of Alex Mack, Dark Angel, and L.A.’s Finest. She has co-founded consumer goods company The Honest Company, which sells baby, personal, and household products. She has also been billed as Jessica Warren, her married name.
Jessica is the daughter of Catherine Louisa (Jensen) and Mark David Alba, who was in the Air Force. Her father, who was born in Los Angeles, is of Mexican descent, including Spanish, Indigenous Mexican/Mayan, and distant Sephardi Jewish and African, roots. Her mother, who was born in Virginia, has Danish, Welsh, English, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and French, ancestry. She was raised partly in Biloxi, Mississippi; Del Rio, Texas; and finally Claremont, California, traveling for her father’s career.
Her brother is actor Joshua Alba. Jessica is married to producer Cash Warren, with whom she has three children. Cash’s father is African-American and his mother is white. Jessica’s third cousin, once removed, is writer Gustavo Arellano.
Jessica has described her father as very dark and her mother as very fair. According to Jessica, her grandfather never spoke Spanish at home because he wanted the family to assimilate into the American mainstream. As a result, Jessica’s father did not learn to speak Spanish.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2014) stated that Jessica’s genetic ancestry is:
*72.7% European
*22.5% East Asian/Native American [Indigenous Mexican]
*2.4% No Match
*2.0% Sub-Saharan African
*0.3% Middle Eastern/North African
*0.1% South Asian
Jessica has stated that she identifies with her Mexican-American heritage. DNA tests on the show indicated that Jessica’s direct patrilineal ancestor was Indigenous. These DNA tests also displayed that Jessica’s father’s direct matrilineal ancestor, Maria Carmen Carrillo/Carillo, was of Sephardi Jewish descent. They also showed that Jessica’s father likely has at least 2.1% Sephardi Jewish ancestry in total. DNA matches listed him as 0.7% Ashkenazi; they also listed him as 0.6% Italian, 0.4% North African, and 0.4% Middle Eastern, all of which were or likely were Jewish in his case according to DNA matches.
Jessica’s 0.1% South Asian DNA is evidently from Jessica’s mother’s side.
Genetically, Jessica was found to have a common ancestor with attorney Alan Dershowitz.
Alba with husband Cash Warren in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Jessica’s paternal grandfather is José Sánchez Alba (the son of Catalino Morones Alba and Francisca/Frances Sánchez). José was born in San Bernardino, San Bernardo Co., California, to Mexican parents. Catalino was born in San Dimas, Durango, the son of Ambrocio/Ambrosio Alva/Alba and Maria Morones/Morence. Francisca was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, the daughter of José Hipólito/Polito Sánchez Hernandez and Refugio/Refugia Cisneroz/Rangel.
Jessica’s paternal grandmother is Ysabel/Isabel Martinez (the daughter of Daniel Fernandez Martinez and Guadalupe Nieves Miranda y Lares). Isabel was born in San Bernardino County, California, to Mexican parents. Daniel was born in Purépero de Echaíz, Michoacán, the son of Eugenio Martinez and Pascuala/Pasquala Fernandez. Guadalupe was born in García, Zacatecas, the daughter of Juan Miranda and Silveria Viramontes/Miramontes y Lares.
Jessica’s maternal grandfather was Harry Christian Jensen, Jr. (the son of Hans/Harry Christian Jensen and Sarah/Sara Evelyn Rhys). Jessica’s grandfather Harry was born in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, and served in WWII and the Korean War. Jessica’s great-grandfather Hans was born in Illinois, to Danish parents, Mads Hansen Jensen and Johanna Jensdatter. Sara was born in Minnesota, to a Welsh father, Samuel H. Rhys, and to a mother, Evaline/Evelyn/Eva Walbridge, who was born in Rochester, Monroe, New York.
Jessica’s maternal grandmother was Louisa Harrison Tebault (the daughter of Paul Miars/Myers Tebault and Catherine/Catharine Louisa Nichols). Jessica’s grandmother Louisa was born in Washington, D.C. Paul was the son of William Paul Tebault and Julia S. Catherine was the daughter of Albert Nichols and Loula Harrison Wharton.
Sources: Genealogies of Jessica Alba – https://www.geni.com
https://famouskin.com
Family histories of Jessica’s father – http://familyhistoryinsider.com
http://familyhistoryinsider.com
Jessica’s maternal grandfather, Harry Christian Jensen, Jr., on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Jessica’s maternal grandfather, Harry Christian Jensen, Jr. – https://www.legacy.com
Jessica’s maternal great-grandmother, Sarah/Sara Evelyn Rhys, on the 1880 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Sarah/Sara Evelyn Rhys on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Jessica’s maternal great-grandfather, Paul Miars/Myers Tebault (focusing on his father’s side) – http://www.findagrave.com
LOS ANGELES – APR 1: Jessica Alba at the Victoria Beckham For Target Launch Event at Private Residence on April 1, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
The DNA test did not say she was 87% white. The term used was “Indo-European.” This can mean anything from South Asian, Middle Eastern/Arab to European.
It’s a misleading term.
Furthermore, to the person who said there are only 3 races in the world (Caucasian, African and Asian), you are using archaic understanding of race, my friend.
Get out of the European colonial mentality and get away from the 3-race colonial classification system.
Indo-European is a language group. They would not use Indo-European when describing dna.
Wow. I can’t believe she actually thought she had a lot of Amerindian in her. She looks so white. The first time I saw her I thought “what a pretty white girl”. Then I found out she was half Mexican and was like “hmm… her Mexican parent must be predominantly white”. And wow, she is only a whopping 87% European, and I am not surprised.
hispanics are from white, portuguese, brazilian, mestizo, indian, asian, to black.. some are not latinos of being born in spain, portugal, canada, and USA. Now i know people that say they are portuguese are not and hate the centrism, but portuguese has some hispanic influence of words, race, and names. I had to learn to understand also.. a very hard topic to indicate… although portuguese people are hispanic, it definitely does not have any centrism to another country. zero country centrism for the word hispanic. latino involves the latin area centrism. people from USA, portugul, and spain are not included in that latin centrism.. so she is somewhat correct even though people do not agree with that. she is american not latino, but also hispanic. that is something she will need to realize more. hispanic is just a group that has spanish influence, heritage, several words, and/ or name.. she has the name and heritage. she is hispanic.
Ricky out
As a Brazilian myself, you’re a TOTAL IDIOT! Hispanics are those from Latin America aka (majority of the people) who have SPANIARD roots, regardless of most having native or afro in the mix. I as a Braziliean am not Hispanic but I am LATINA because I have Portuguese in my roots.Most Brazileans are not Hispanics for this reason but we are Latino. Hispanics are also Latinos (DUH)
The natives and blacks in Latin America are not Hispanic either (because they have no Spanish in them)
Spaniards, Portuguese, French, Italian aka ALL LATINS are why WE Latinos are labeled as such. We are a mixture of them.
Latinos are those who are from “Latin America” Hispanics are people with Spanish ancestry, people that come from countries that speak Spanish. *Note, not all Latin American conutries speak Spanish so this is why Latino and Hispanic are not the same.
Jenes, take a chill-pill and you are the total idiot… I learned from the oxford dictionary, other university dictionaries, and other many lessions that are smarter than both you and me. hispanic pertains to a person all somehowwwww spanish influence, and you are incorrect with blacks and mestizos not being hispanic! Roberto Clemente was the first hispanic-american on PAB (Players Association Board) and hit 3000 pitches. He is black! Besides, some mexicans are actually mestizo or castizo and they are definitely hispanic. A hispanic is not a race, but only a group of people like the term latin. Portuguese like I said is a very hard topic ’cause you guys deserve to be named your own culture, but until then you are a hispanic and latino cause portuguese could propably but doesn’t go without the spanish words ser, belleza, vamos, estamos, modista, merenda, so forth. But could you guys not be called us and exempt from that. yeah definetly, because your language is able to adapt those words in a domestic way of sair. becheça, vaimos, estaimos, so forth.. Only can the portuguese accept a change, not our enforcement.
(It is true Karina with yourpoint, but they are misconcepted into the same mix. there are one or two dutch-speaking countries in Latin America, but portuguese is pertained as hispanic cause of spanish words influence.)
Someone who lives Latino culture is Latino regardless of skin color. There are very dark people actually have some Indian blood, not only in Latin America but also in the United States and Canada. Many Spaniards also have some African blood due to the Moorish invasion. Look at how similar King Juan Carlos and Lamar Odom look.
It’s very simplistic to say that Brazilians have only Portuguese and no Spanish influence. The western part of Brazil was granted to Spain by the Treaty of Tordesillas. It was only through political unification that the whole country adopted Portuguese as the official language.
Haitians are also considered Latino but not Hispanic, even though France didn’t conquer that part of Hispaniola before Spain.
This blogger suggests that Filipinos, as well as some Africans, can be considered Hispanic because the regions were infused with Spanish culture: http://withonespast.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/response-to-the-post-filipinos-are-not-hispanic/
JESSICA ALBA YOU SHOULD BE PROUD OF BEEN PARK MEXICAN THAT WHAT MAKES U SO BEUTIFUL BECAUSE YOU MIX
i can tell u stupid u dont even now how 2 spell part
estupid!!!!!!!!!!!
Hispanic is the mixture of white, asian and black
those 3 are the only races in the entire world
everything else is a ethnicity.
and mexican means MIX….ignorant people should get educated. please.. stupid people are useless and unwanted.
Incorrect, please do more research on this subject because this is ridiculous. It also ironic because your one of those people that you consider useless and unwanted.
Then Native American indigenous people are what (according to you)? They were here long *before* 1492 you know…I agree with Bri, please do more research, it’s pretty easy to get fast and accurate info nowadays.