Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the younger daughter of producer, media mogul, and musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. Kidada Jones is her older sibling. There are five half-siblings through her father's other relationships. Her father is African American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant emigrants from Russia and Latvia). Rashida was raised Reform Judaism. She was born in Bel Air Los Angeles, California. Jones has revealed of her mixed race parentage, "It was the 1970s and still wasn't that appropriate for them to be in a relationship." Jones began her professional acting career was in The Last Don (1997) A mini-series inspired by Mario Puzo's novel. Rashida was also an Harvard University graduate in 1997. She attended the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California. Voted the Most Likely to succeed. Her name is Arabic (O+-O'UO-O(c)) for "Major adult, mature and wise". 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. On 25 February 2003, Mark Ronson, a music producer, was previously engaged to her. Niece of Robert Lipton. Her romantic partners are Josh Hartnett and Charlie Hunnam. She sang in a Tupac Shakur tribute song which was written by Kidada Jones as well as her sister. Rashida and Kidada's brother Quincy Jones III produced the track, while their father, Quincy Jones, made appearances, singing the lines from Shakur's poem "Starry Night" in the intro. The poem inspired the title of the song. Rashida is an African-American, and has more English, Scottish, or Welsh ancestry than his mother (some of his African ancestors came from the Tikar tribe from Cameroon). Her mother, Rashida, is Ashkenazi Jewish (of Russian Jewish and Latvian Jewish descent). Her paternal grandparents were of 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. At the end 2009, she had played three different characters in the show, including "Karen" in the classic sitcoms on television: Freaks and Geeks (1999), Stella ((2005) and The Office ((2005)).