Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of a media mogul, producer, and musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. Kidada Jones is her elder sibling. Five half-siblings are born through other relationships with her father. Her father is African American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant emigrants from Russia and Latvia). Rashida was raised in Reform Judaism. She was born in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Jones said that her mixed-race parentage was not recognized by the public until the 1970s. Jones was a professional actor when she made her debut on The Last Don, a mini-series in 1997 that was based on a novel by Mario Puzo. In 1997, Rashida graduated from Harvard University. She attended the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks (California). The school awarded her the most likely to succeed. The name she uses is Arabic (O+-O'UO-O(c)) which means "Major, adult, grown-up or wise". People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People list. (USA) [2002] Half-sister of Quincy Jones III, Jolie Jones, Martina Jones, Kenya Kinski-Jones, as well as Rachel Jones. Was previously engaged to producer Mark Ronson on 25th February 2003. Niece to Robert Lipton. She was romantically linked to Josh Hartnett, Charlie Hunnam and John Krasinski. Kidada Jones was her sister's engagement ring bearer and she sang as a vocalist for an Tupac Shakur tribute track. Kidada as well as her brother Quincy Jones III composed the song. Quincy Jones III, their father, was also featured in the opening, reciting Shakur's lines "Starry Night". The poem is the source of the song's title. Rashida is African-American and has more English, Scottish, or Welsh ancestry than his mother (some of his African ancestors came from the Tikar tribe of Cameroon). Rashida is Ashkenazi Jewish, of Russian Jewish and Latvian Jewish descent. Her maternal grandparents came 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. As of the end of 2009 she had played three different characters, including "Karen", on the classic TV sitcoms Freaks and Geeks (1999), Stella ((2005) and The Office ((2005)).