Jessica Alba

Jessica Marie Alba, born April 28, 1981, in Pomona, California, is an American actress and entrepreneur who rose to prominence as one of Hollywood's most bankable young stars of the 2000s and has since built an even more consequential career as co-founder and executive chairman of The Honest Company, a consumer goods company focused on safe, non-toxic household and personal care products that achieved a valuation of over 1.6 billion dollars at its IPO in 2021. Raised in a military family that moved frequently across California and Texas, Alba discovered acting as a teenager and studied at the Atlantic Theater Company before landing the lead role in the television series Dark Angel (2000-2002), James Cameron's futuristic action drama in which she played the genetically enhanced supersoldier Max Guevara, winning two Saturn Awards. Her film career quickly reached mainstream stardom through Honey (2003), Sin City (2005, Robert Rodriguez's neo-noir), Fantastic Four (2005) and its sequel, and Into the Blue (2005). Parallel to her screen career, she became one of the first celebrities to recognize the commercial opportunity in conscious consumerism, co-founding The Honest Company in 2011 after her personal frustration with the lack of safe, transparent consumer products. The company grew from a small online subscription service into a major public company worth over a billion dollars, making her one of the wealthiest self-made female entrepreneurs in the United States. Her story has been studied in business schools as a model of celebrity-driven entrepreneurship and brand building, representing a model of career evolution that has influenced a generation of actor-entrepreneurs.