History Creator / JessicaAlba

* StarDerailingRole: ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' dealt a fatal blow to her already declining big-screen career, not helped by the lukewarm responses to ''Film/{{Machete}}'' and ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld''. ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor'' bombing at the Box Office was the last nail on her major movie career. She's returned to series television[[note]]or streaming television if you're in the US due to it being made for Crackle[[/note]] in the ''Film/BadBoys'' spinoff - ''L.A.'s Finest'' playing Nancy [=McKenna=] the partner of the sequel's Syd Burnett.[[MeaningfulName Syd and Nancy - get it?]]

* StarDerailingRole: ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' dealt a fatal blow to her already declining big-screen career, not helped by the lukewarm responses to ''Film/{{Machete}}'' and ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld''. ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor'' bombing at the Box Office was the last nail on her major movie career. She's returned toseries television[[note]]or streaming television if you're in the US due to it being made for Crackle[[/note]] in the ''Film/BadBoys'' spinoff - ''L.A.'s Finest'' featuring as Nancy [=McKenna=]the partner of the sequel's Syd Burnett.[[MeaningfulName Syd and Nancy - get it?]]

!!''"Tropes Asociadas Con Jessica Alba"'':

* StarDerailingRole: ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' dealt a fatal blow to her already declining career, not helped by the lukewarm responses to ''Film/{{Machete}}'' and ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld''. ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor'' bombing at the Box Office was the last nail on her Hollywood career. She's returning to series television in the ''Film/BadBoys'' spinoff - ''L.A.'s Finest'' featuring as the partner of the sequel's Syd Burnett.
** Fortunately her billion dollar make-up company was taking off around this time, giving her a net worth around $300 million, so don't worry, [[EarnYourHappyEnding she's doing just fine]].

!!Tropes associated with this actress:

* CreatorBacklash: You don't like the second season of ''Series/DarkAngel''? She doesn't ''either'', bashing it in the commentary for the season one finale.

* PlayingAgainstType: ''An Invisible Sign'' - a rare non-[[FanService fanservicy]] role for her as a mousy, withdrawn math teacher.

* ''Film/EscapeFromPlanetEarth'' (2013) as Lena (voice)

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Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) started her acting career in the '90s, playing in a few independent films, making a few appearances on ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack,'' and doing a couple of seasons of the revived ''Series/{{Flipper}}'' series. Then she grew up and starred in ''Series/DarkAngel''. And ''then'' she played a [[MsFanservice stripper]] in ''Film/SinCity'', and Invisible Woman in ''Film/FantasticFour2005'', and wore a bikini in ''Film/IntoTheBlue''. She has a personal code about never appearing nude. At least not completely.

!!Her films include:
* ''Film/CampNowhere'' (1994)
* ''Film/NeverBeenKissed'' (1999)
* ''Film/IdleHands'' (1999)
* ''Film/SinCity'' (2005)
* ''Film/{{Fantastic Four|2005}}'' (2005)
* ''Film/IntoTheBlue'' (2005)
* ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer'' (2007)
* ''Film/GoodLuckChuck'' (2007)
* ''Film/{{Awake}}'' (2007)
* ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' (2008)
* ''Film/ValentinesDay'' (2010)
* ''Film/TheKillerInsideMe'' (2010)
* ''Film/{{Machete}}'' (2010)
* ''Film/LittleFockers'' (2010)
* ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld'' (2011)
* ''Film/MacheteKills'' (2013) ([[TheCameo uncredited cameo]])
* ''Film/BarelyLethal'' (2015)
* ''Mechanic: Resurrection'' (2016)

* FakeNationality: Malaysian in ''Film/TheSleepingDictionary''.
* MsFanservice: Her personal code against nudity notwithstanding, directors can't seem to resist having at least one scantily-dressed/suggested-nude scene in any film she does, regardless of whether it makes sense or not. She was apparently nude in two movies, but ''The Sleeping Dictionary'' used body doubles and her shower scene in ''Machete'' involved digitally removed underwear.
* CreatorBacklash : You don't like the second season of ''Series/DarkAngel''? She doesn't ''either''.

* StarDerailingRole: ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' dealt a fatal blow to her already declining career, not helped by the lukewarm responses to ''Film/{{Machete}}'' and ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld''. ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor'' bombing at the Box Office was the last nail on her Hollywood career. She's returning to series television in the ''Film/BadBoys''spinoff - ''L.A.'s Finest''

* StarDerailingRole: ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' dealt a fatal blow to her already declining career, not helped by the lukewarm responses to ''Film/{{Machete}}'' and ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld''. ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor'' bombing at the Box Office was the last nail on her Hollywood career.

* ''[[Film/SpyKids Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World]]'' (2011)

* StarDerailingRole: ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' dealt a fatal blow to her already declining career, not helped by the lukewarm responses to ''Film/{{Machete}}'' and ''Film/SpyKids: All the time in the World''. ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor'' bombing at the Box Office was the last nail on her Hollywood career.

* OneWomanSong: The German group Fourtypercent [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2ouxGwQRc (with "Jessica Alba")]] and the English group Elliot Minor [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL7bVeFfBPM (with "Jessica")]].

* EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth: What a grin!

* AsHerself: In ''Film/KnockedUp'' and ''Entourage'' (both [[Series/{{Entourage}} TV show]] and [[Film/{{Entourage}} movie]]).

* FamilyFriendlyStripper: Alba's refusal to do nude scenes led to this when she was cast as a stripper in ''Film/SinCity''.
* MsFanservice: Her personal code against nudity notwithstanding, directors can't seem to resist having at least one scantily-dressed/suggested-nude scene in any film she does, regardless of whether it makes sense or not. The ''Fantastic Four'' movies may be the most notorious in that regard -- in the first, she initially has to strip to completely disappear (a limitation that was never present in the comics, according to Jessica, the scene was written after she was hired), while in the second, she has her clothes burned off after accidentally receiving the Human Torch's powers. Both scenes, of course [[NakedPeopleAreFunny are in public.]] She was apparently nude in two movies, but ''The Sleeping Dictionary'' used body doubles and her shower scene in ''Machete'' involved digitally removed underwear.

* SpicyLatina: Averted - until ''Film/{{Machete}}''.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She's in her mid-thirties, but thanks to diet, genetics, and healthy living, she could pass for a teen with no effort whatsoever.

She had her third child on New Year's Eve 2017, a son. [[ThemeNaming ANd yes, his name starts with H as well - Hayes]].

* {{Fanservice}}: Her personal code against nudity notwithstanding, directors can't seem to resist having at least one scantily-dressed/suggested-nude scene in any film she does, regardless of whether it makes sense or not. The ''Fantastic Four'' movies may be the most notorious in that regard -- in the first, she initially has to strip to completely disappear (a limitation that was never present in the comics, according to Jessica, the scene was written after she was hired), while in the second, she has her clothes burned off after accidentally receiving the Human Torch's powers. Both scenes, of course [[NakedPeopleAreFunny are in public.]] She was apparently nude in two movies, but ''The Sleeping Dictionary'' used body doubles and her shower scene in ''Machete'' involved digitally removed underwear.
* MsFanservice

* BikiniBar: Alba's refusal to do nude scenes led to this when she was cast as a stripper in ''SinCity''.

Although she appeals a bit ''too'' much to males to have any chick flicks in the foreseeable future, ''Film/ValentinesDay'' notwithstanding and she barely appears in this one (see also Creator/ScarlettJohansson and Creator/MeganFox[[note]]although they're in ''Film/HesJustNotThatIntoYou'' and ''Friends With Kids'' respectively, they're not so much the main characters as each film's MsFanservice[[/note]]), she has almost certainly won some female fans by not hiding how difficult it was for her to get back in shape after having her daughters [[ThemeNaming Honor and Haven]]. She and their father Cash Warren married in 2008; in recent years she's devoted more time to motherhood than acting, starting a company called The Honest Company (specialising in non-toxic household goods) and authoring ''The Honest Life'', a book about this lifestyle. The company became highly successful, and Alba's net worth is [[http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2015/05/27/how-jessica-alba-built-a-1-billion-company-and-200-million-fortune-selling-parents-peace-of-mind/ estimated to be $200 million.]]

* FakeNationality: Malaysian in ''The Sleeping Dictionary'' and Canadian in ''TheLoveGuru''.

* PlayingAgainstType: See ''Film/TheKillerInsideMe'' and ''Film/{{Awake}}''.
** But if you'd rather not see her [[spoiler: get beaten to death or play a murderous gold-digger respectively]] in those films, there's the little-seen ''An Invisible Sign'' - a rare non-[[FanService fanservicy]] role for her as a mousy, withdrawn math teacher. [[spoiler: Alba also plays a cartoon villain in ''WesternAnimation/EscapeFromPlanetEarth'' and a live-action one in ''Film/BarelyLethal''.]]
* ProductionPosse: Has now done five films with RobertRodriguez.

* StarMakingRole: ''Fantastic 4'' and ''SinCity''. ''DarkAngel'' also brought her to a lot of people's attention ([[TestosteroneBrigade especially the male variety]]).
* WagTheDirector: Her aforementioned "No Nude Scenes" policy is the reason why her character is always clothed in ''Sin City.''

* ''Mechanic: Resurrection''(2016)

Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) started her acting career in the '90s, playing in a few independent films, making a few appearances on ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack,'' and doing a couple of seasons of the revived ''Series/{{Flipper}}'' series. Then she grew up and starred in ''Series/DarkAngel''. And ''then'' she played a [[MsFanservice stripper]] in ''SinCity'', and Invisible Woman in ''Film/FantasticFour2005'', and wore a bikini in ''Film/IntoTheBlue''. She has a personal code about never appearing nude. At least not completely.

* ''Stretch'' (2014)

* ''Paranoid'' (2000)
* ''Honey'' (2003)

* ''Film/CampNowhere (1994)