She made her feature film debut in 1993 in "Camp Nowhere" (1994). Her two-week job stretched to two months as she got her chance when an actress in a principal role suddenly dropped out.

Jessica was graduated high school at age 16.

After graduating from high school, she studied with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, at David Mamet's Atlantic Theater Company.

She is an avid swimmer and PADI-certified scuba diver.

Jessica loves to play golf.

She has stated that she would never do a nude scene or pose topless in a magazine.

Jessica was actually kidnapped after having received telephone threats during the production of "Flipper". She was found unharmed in the trunk of a car.

Her show "Dark Angel" (2000) was canceled after two seasons on Fox.

She is engaged to co-star "Dark Angel" (2000), Michael Weatherly.

She co-starred in one episode of "Dark Angel" (2000) with her brother, Joshua Alba, entitled "...And Jesus Brought a Casserole."

She has a tatoo of a daisy with a ladybug on it on the back of her neck.

In 2001, she was #1 on Maxim's Hot 100 Babe List.

She was voted the fifth Sexiest Female Star for 2002 in a Hollywood.com poll.

In 2002, Jessica was ranked #12 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World".

In 2002, she was voted #4 in the Top 10 Sci-Fi Babes for her role as Max in "Dark Angel".

She was voted in at #6 in FHM's Sexiest Girls of 2002 poll, American edition.

She has started training in dance and Tae Bo two months prior for her new film, "Honey" (2003).

She was "Punk'd" (2003) on the Ashton Kutcher-hosted MTV show in 2003.

She made a cameo on Wahlberg's show "Entourage" in 2004.

Jessica was mentioned in the D12 song "My Band".

Jessica is a Feria hair color spokesperson for the L'Oreal.

Developing her own videogame, co-created new 'X-Game sports' technology that is being launched on mobile phones in Korea (Sept 2005).

Topped STARmeter's list of Most Searched Names of 2005 at No. 6.

Ranked No. 1 on the 2006 "Most Desirable Women" poll held by online magazine AskMen.com.

Was at No. 3 on FHM magazine's annual list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World" which was held in the year 2006.

Ranked 2nd on Maxim's 7th annual "Hot 100" list, which edition hit newsstands on May 18th, 2006.

Took away the Sexiest Performance predicate at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards show held on June 3rd, thanks to her film "Sin City" (2005).