Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California to Quincy Jones, a media producer and mogul, and Peggy Lipton, Rashida is the younger sister of actress Peggy Lipton and Quincy Jones. She has an older sister, Kidada Jones, and five half-siblings from the other relationships her father has with his children. Her father is African-American and her mother Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant from emigrants from Russia as well as Latvia). Rashida was born into Reform Judaism. Her birthplace was Bel Air, Los Angeles. Jones has stated of her parents of mixed race, "It was the 1970s and it's not even that acceptable for them to be together." Jones made her professional acting debut on The Last Don, a mini-series in 1997 that was based on a novel written by Mario Puzo. In 1997, Rashida graduated from Harvard University. In 1997, she attended the Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, California. She was awarded the Most Likely to Succeed Award. Her name is Arabic (O+-O'UO-O(c)) to mean "Major adult, mature and wise". People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. (USA[2002] Half-sister to Quincy Jones III and Jolie Jones. Martina Jones, Kenya Kinski Jones, Rachel Jones, and Martina Jones. The singer was previously married to producer Mark Ronson on 25th February 2003. Niece of Robert Lipton. She was romantically involved with Josh Hartnett, Charlie Hunnam and John Krasinski. She sang in a Tupac Shakur tribute track, that was written by Kidada Jones and her sister. Kidada and Rashida's brother Quincy Jones III composed the song. Quincy Jones III, their father, also appeared in the intro, singing Shakur's lines "Starry Night". The title of the song is a reference to the poem. Rashida's father is African-American, and has lesser amounts of English, Scottish, and Welsh and Scottish family ancestry (some of his African ancestors were from the Tikar people of Cameroon). Rashida is Ashkenazi Jewish, of Russian Jewish and Latvian Jewish descent. Her paternal grandparents hail from South Carolina and Mississippi, respectively. Her maternal grandfather was born in New York, and her maternal grandmother was born in Dublin, Ireland, of Eastern European Jewish origin. As of the end of 2009 she was playing three distinct characters with "Karen", on the sitcoms of the past: Freaks and Geeks (1999), Stella ((2005) and The Office ((2005)).