Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the younger daughter of a media mogul, producer and musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. Kidada Jones is her elder sibling. There are five half-siblings through other relationships with her father. Her father is African-American, and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant from immigrants to Russia and Latvia). Rashida was raised in Reform Judaism. She was raised in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Jones stated that Jones' mixed race parents were unacceptable to her in the 1970s. Jones made her professional acting debut was on The Last Don (1997), a mini-series that was inspired by Mario Puzo's novel. Rashida was also a Harvard University graduate in 1997. She was a student at the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks (California). Voted the Most Likely Sufferer. Arabic (O+O'UO O(c)) is her nickname. It is the word for "Major", adult, mature and wise. The People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" list. (USA) [2002Half-sister to Quincy Jones III. Jolie Jones III. Martina Jones. Kenya Kinski-Jones. Rachel Jones. Formerly engaged to music producer Mark Ronson on 25th February 2003. Niece to Robert Lipton. She was romantically involved with Josh Hartnett, Charlie Hunnam and John Krasinski. She was a singer in the Tupac Shakur tribute tune, composed by Kidada Jones as well as her sister. Rashida as well as Kidada's brother Quincy Jones III produced the track, while their father, Quincy Jones, made an appearance while reciting the words of Shakur's poem "Starry Night" in the intro. The song's title is a tribute to the poem. Rashida's father is African-American, as well as having smaller amounts of English, Scottish, and Welsh and Scottish and Welsh ancestry (some of his African relatives were of the Tikar people from Cameroon). Her mother, Rashida, is Ashkenazi Jewish (of Russian Jewish and Latvian Jewish descent). Her maternal grandparents are from South Carolina and Mississippi. Her maternal grandfather was born in New York, and her maternal grandmother was born in Dublin, Ireland, of Eastern European Jewish origin. By the end of 2009, she was playing three distinct characters with "Karen", on the iconic sitcoms on TV: Freaks and Geeks (1999), Stella ((2005) and The Office ((2005)).