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. She has an older sister, Kidada Jones, as well as five half-siblings inherited from her father's other relationships. Her father is African American, and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant from the emigrants who emigrated to Russia and Latvia). Rashida was born into Reform Judaism. She was raised in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Jones claimed that her mixed-race parents were not accepted by the public until the 1970s. Jones began her professional acting debut in The Last Don in 1997 an animated mini-series, which was influenced by Mario Puzo. Rashida was also an Harvard University graduate in 1997. The school she attended was the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California. Voted the Most Likely to be Successful. Arabic (O+ O'UO-O(c) (her name) is a reference to "Major," adult, wise, mature or senior. The People magazine's "50 most beautiful people" list. (USA) [2002Half sister to Quincy Jones III. Jolie Jones III. Martina Jones. Kenya Kinski-Jones. Rachel Jones. Was previously married to Mark Ronson (music producer) 25 February 2003. Niece of Robert Lipton. Her romantic relationships are Josh Hartnett and Charlie Hunnam. Kidada Jones was her sister's ring bearer and she sang as an artist for an Tupac Shakur tribute song. Rashida and Kidada's brother Quincy Jones III produced the track, while their father, Quincy Jones, made an appearance , reciting the lyrics of Shakur's poem "Starry Night" in the intro. The poem was the inspiration behind the song's title. Rashida's father is African American, and also has smaller amounts of English, Scottish, and Welsh ancestral family ancestry (some of his African ancestral ancestors came from the Tikar people from Cameroon). Rashida's mother, Ashkenazi Jewish (of Russian Jewish heritage and Latvian Jewish heritage), is Rashida. Her paternal grandparents, who both came of South Carolina, and Mississippi are the paternal grandparents of her father. Her maternal grandfather was born in New York, and her maternal grandmother was born in Dublin, Ireland, of Eastern European Jewish origin. She has been playing three characters named "Karen" since 2009 on the TV show that is a cult comedy series Freaks and Geeks (1999), Stella (2006), and The Office (2005).