Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones was the younger daughter of media mogul, producer, musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. She has an older sister, Kidada Jones, as well as five half-siblings through the various relationships between her father and his other partners. Her father is African American, and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant from emigrants to Russia and Latvia). Rashida was raised Reform Judaism. She was born in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Jones said that her mixed-race parents were not accepted by society until the 1970s. Jones began her debut as a professional actor in The Last Don in 1997 A mini-series that was inspired by Mario Puzo. In 1997, Rashida graduated from Harvard University. Took a course at the Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, California. Voted the Most Likely Sufferer. The name she uses is Arabic (O+-O'UO-O(c)) to mean "Major, adult, grown-up and wise". People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. (USA) [2002Half-sister to Quincy Jones III, Jolie Jones, Martina Jones, Kenya Kinski Jones, and Rachel Jones. She 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 wedding ring bearer and also singer for a Tupac Shakur tribute track. Rashida and Kidada's brother Quincy Jones III produced the track, while their father, Quincy Jones, made appearances, singing the lines of Shakur's poem "Starry Night" during the introduction. The poem inspired the song's title. Rashida's father was African-American as well as having smaller amounts of English, Scottish, and Welsh, and Welsh ancestry (some of his African family members were descendants of the Tikar people of 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 was born in New York, and her maternal grandmother was born in Dublin, Ireland, of Eastern European Jewish origin. In the year 2009, she had played three different characters with "Karen", on the iconic sitcoms on TV: Freaks and Geeks (1999), Stella ((2005) and The Office ((2005)).