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, and distant Sephardi Jewish]
*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, 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. 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
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
some people here think latin= latinO
this is as dumb as saying spanish= latino.
anyone who claims that latinoamericans cannot call themselves latin (fyi we don’t- retarded american government did this to classify us) is fucking retarded.
Actually, prior to about 1968, Hispanics were officially considered Caucasians by the US Govt. It was only when the Hispanic community started to see the benefits being handed out to minority communities that they lobbied the Govt to be considered a specific and separate minority group. So, you did this to yourselves….Ole! Don’t believe me? Check out the facts yourself.
Source, you stupid dumbo?
Jus,
You must be as retard as when you were writing your blog
It’s Funny fore me to see how bad some people want to be White! especially South Americans and even Arabs and Indians (from India) for that matter….My cousin has blue eyes and fair skin…our country is 80% white….Cuba is 80% white. Even heard people say Brazillians are 70% White… wtf???. Where are all the native indians Mulato”s and Blacks? Keep dreaming. if jessica alba walked around in Germany no one would think she was white.
Exactly.
BIGOT.
gtfo with your racist shit, no one is going to give a medal for having white people, no one is dying to be white exept you, gtfo and kill yourself, puto de mierda.
White people are of the caucasian race. They range from very pale to very dark people. But “white” people are the minority in this world. Cuba 80% white? Nope. Stupid. Brazil 70% white? Nope. Dumbo. You are the dumbest human being to ever walk the face of the Earth. If you knew anything, you would know no one in those countries are 100% ONE RACE!! Especially BRAZIL.
Cuba is not 80% white. Can’t imagine where someone would arbitrarily come up with that number. I’m Cuban, and have been there many times. Many more blacks than that. Please watch the series Black in Latinamerica.
lmfao cuba is not 80% white, the majority of the country are mulattos, stop crying to make your country seem like its Uruguay, its ridiculous
Sorry Cubans are not white although they would love to think they are (NOT) and Brazil is over 85% African…ask a White man and believe me he would say HELL no Cuban or Brazilians are not white # js
Well is she walked around southern european counties (where im from) you wouldn’t notice the difference. :)
thousands of years ago the Romans (Latins) invaded and colonised Europe, including Spain. They made babies with the spanish population and the Spanish soon began to speak Latin. So Spain IS has a latin country. When the Spaniards colonised south america they passed on their language and culture (by then Latin had turned into Spanish but was still a latin based language). So south america is culturally a Latin continent, but this does not mean that it must be ethnically latin, even though most of them are. But in countries like Peru or even mexico where there are lots of pure native americans you CANNOT call them ethnically latins as they do not have white european blood but they are culturally latins.
ex: the predominant culture inthe U.S.A. is the anglo one, but would you call a black person anglo american? no you wouldn’t but you would say that their culture IS angloamerican because they speak english ect. the same with south america, they are all culturaly latins but only the ones with white spanish blood are ethnically latin
Spanish people are, primarily, descended from Arab/Europeans (as are Italians, Portuguese, & most Iberian & southern Europeans). That’s where they get their splendid “dark features”. I’m an anthropologist & I am Italian/Spanish/French & have done extensive genealogy.
All People are descended from Brown Africans
you are also a liar, go look at DNA studies, your myths cant hold up.
I agree the labels are stupid…like “African American”. My brother in law is Haitian and laughs at being called African-American…
But Rome (Italy) IS in Europe…they (whites) colonized as far north as Scotland, as far east as Syria, as far south as North Africa and as far west as Spain. True, their language, Latin, as a root formed a base for today’s French, Romanian, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, and Romansque.
Although forgotten, the term “Latin” was really used to quantify and qualify countries which were colonized by Catholic-based countries and created a Catholic influenced culture versus Protestant which marked the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. The odd thing about this designation is that today, Catholicism is America’s #1 denomination…
This applies to the whole fucking world. Europe colonized the WHOLE WORLD!
it makes me cry how stupid people are. Hispanics arent Latins therefore they are not Latinos! Latin America is a hell of a difference than Latin. moreover, she has to have Italian blood because Alba means dawn(its a Latin word) confused?
noone ,do you think spain got to the new world and vanished?the bloodline is gone? and no other latins came to the new world?i can’t speak for latin america but puerto rico is 80 % white and every puerto rican i know can trace their family back to spain.is that not latin?how can a people have spanish names speak the spanish language and practice spanish customs and not be spanish?is that what your saying because it doesn’t seem logical does it?if you have never been to latin america than how can you or anyone make such an ignorant blanket statement like that
IDIOT. Cuba is not 80% white. BIGOT. Please don’t be American. Not with your stupidity. Cuba is probably 80% mixed race. Dumbo.
Have you seen Bulgarians? They have dark hair, eyes and medium tanned skin but they are still 100% Caucasian. Jessica Alba had a DNA test done on television, she is 84% white. She is a white woman, get over it.
exactly and so do southern italians
only to americans is she white, she is technically not white. think of it this way. if you get white paint then mix in color paint will the paint ever be white again? use a little common sense
White people are not literally white so try again.
There are no white people on earth just shades of brown and pink
True.
Sorry Lindz her DNA test could only test her mother’s side which was Danish etc… The test for her father’s Latin side could only be tested if she had a brother or male cousin of the same line test called the Y DNA test.
Rules of the DNA science test sorry…
Therefore only the Mitochondrial DNA could be tested because she is a female.