Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones was born 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. Kidada Jones is her elder sibling. There are five half-siblings through her father's other relationships. Her father is African-American, and her mother Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant from immigrants to Russia as well as Latvia). Rashida was born into Reform Judaism. She was born in Bel Air Los Angeles, California. Jones stated that her mixed-race heritage was not recognized by the general public until the 1970s. Jones began her professional acting debut in The Last Don, a mini-series that aired in 1997 based on the novel by Mario Puzo. Rashida has also graduated from Harvard University in 1997. She attended a class at the Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, California. She was voted the most likely to suffer. Arabic (O+ O'UO-O(c) (her name) signifies "Major," adult, wise, mature, or elder. People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. (USA] [2002] Half-sister of Quincy Jones III and Jolie Jones. Martina Jones, Kenya Kinski Jones, Rachel Jones and Martina Jones. She was previously married to Mark Ronson (music producer), 25 February 2003. Niece of Robert Lipton. She was romantically associated with Josh Hartnett, Charlie Hunnam and John Krasinski. She was a vocalist on an ode to Tupac Shakur, who was married to her sister Kidada Jones. Rashida and Kidada's brother Quincy Jones III produced the song, and their father, Quincy Jones, made an appearance reciting the lines of the poem by Shakur "Starry Night" in the intro. The poem is the inspiration for the song's name. Rashida's father, who's African-American also has a smaller percentage of English, Scottish and Welsh ancestral ancestry (some ancestral ancestors of her African ancestors are from the Tikar people in Cameroon). Rashida is Ashkenazi Jewish, of Russian Jewish and Latvian Jewish descent. Her paternal grandparents were from South Carolina and Mississippi, respectively. Her maternal grandfather is born in New York and her maternal grandmother who is of Eastern European Jewish descent, was born in Dublin, Ireland. 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)).