Jessica Alba Biography

Jessica Alba is best known as TV’s Dark Angel (2000-02, produced by James Cameron) and as Sue Storm in the movie version of The Fantastic Four (2005, starring Michael Chiklis), and for co-founding The Honest Company.

Jessica Alba began working in front of the camera in the mid-1990s, appearing in television commercials and small roles in feature films. She had a recurring role in the Nickelodeon series The Secret World of Alex Mack, followed by her first starring role in the 1995 series Flipper.

She scored a double whammy in 1999 with appearances in the teen-friendly films Never Been Kissed and Idle Hands, and later that year James Cameron cast her as the title lead in his TV project Dark Angel. Since then she has worked mostly in feature films, sometimes as a tough-but-vulnerable type as in Honey (2003, with Lil’ Romeo) and in the film version of Frank Miller‘s Sin City (2005, with Bruce Willis) and its sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014, although Alba is not the titular dame, that’s Eva Green).

Jessica Alba’s other films include The Sleeping Dictionary (2003), the ocean-diving suspense film Into the Blue (2005, with Paul Walker), the Fantastic Four sequel Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), a role as a klutzy penguin-keeper in Good Luck Chuck (2007), the action comedy Barely Lethal (2015). She played a cop with a secret past in the TV series L.A.’s Finest (2019-20), and Parker, a special forces commando with a troubled past, in the Netflix thriller Trigger Warning (2024).

Jessica Alba has also had success as a businesswoman. She co-founded The Honest Company in 2013, which markets safe and eco-friendly household and baby products. The company went public in 2021; the website The Wrap reported that her shares were worth $130 million at the end of the day the company started trading. She served as the firm’s Chief Creative Officer until stepping down in April of 2024.