Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California to Quincy Jones, a media producer and mogul. Alongside Peggy Lipton, Rashida is the younger sister of actress Peggy Lipton and Quincy Jones. Kidada Jones is her older sister. She also has five half-siblings from her father's other relationships. Her father is African-American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant from immigrants from Russia and Latvia). Rashida was educated in Reform Judaism. She was raised in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Jones has said of her dual race parents, "It was the 1970s and it's not even that acceptable for them to be together." Jones began her professional acting debut in The Last Don, a mini-series that aired in 1997 based on the novel written by Mario Puzo. In 1997, Rashida graduated from Harvard University. She was a student at the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks (California). Voted the Most Likely to be Successful. Her name is Arabic (O+-O'UO-O(c)) meaning "Major adult, grown-up and wise". The People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" list. (USA) [2002Half-sister to Quincy Jones III, Jolie Jones, Martina Jones, Kenya Kinski Jones, and Rachel Jones. Once engaged to music producer Mark Ronson on 25th February 2003. Niece of Robert Lipton. She has been romantically tied to Josh Hartnett, Charlie Hunnam and John Krasinski. Kidada Jones was her sister's engagement ring bearer and she also sang as the vocalist in a Tupac Shakur tribute song. Kidada as well as Rashida's brother Quincy Jones III composed the song. Quincy Jones III, their father, also appeared in the opening, reciting Shakur's lines "Starry Night". The poem was the inspiration behind the song's title. Rashida is an African-American, and has less English, Scottish, or Welsh ancestral ancestry than his mother (some of his African ancestors came from the Tikar tribe from Cameroon). 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. She has been playing three characters called "Karen" from 2009 to present on the popular TV comedy series Freaks and Geeks (1999), Stella (2006), and The Office (2005).