*Though born in Pomona, California on April 28, 1981, Jessica Maria Alba moved to Biloxi, Mississippi while still an infant when her father was transferred by the military.

      The peripatetic army brat came back to California with her family at the age of three, before relocating to Texas, and then finally settling in California at the age of nine.

      Soon thereafter, Jessica exhibited a serious interest in acting, and landed her first screen role in a kiddie comedy called Camp Nowhere.

      She next made a string of support appearances on TV and in movies till landing the breakout role as the Dark Angel on the Fox-TV series of the same name.

      Since, she has starred in such films as Good Luck Chuck, Awake, Fantastic Four 1 & 2, Sin City, Honey, The Ten and Into the Blue.

      Alba, an attractive blend of Latino, French and Danish, was named #1 on Maxim's Hot 100 List of 2001, #1 on Ask Men's 99 Most Desirable Women List of 2006, #6 on FHM's Sexiest Girls of 2002, #3 on E TV's 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies, of 2006, #4 on Empire Magazine's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars of 2007, #12 on Stuff Magazine's 102 Sexiest Women in the World List, Victoria Secret's Sexiest Woman Celebrity in 2007, etcetera.

      Jessica's about to trade in that pinup image for mother and wife, because she's expecting and engaged to actor Cash Warren, son of UCLA basketball great Mike Warren. Here, she talks about her life, her career, and her new movie, The Eye, a horror flick where she plays a blind violinist haunted by frightening visions after her sight is restored by a double corneal transplant operation.