Rashida Jones

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Rashida Jones (2017)

Rashida Leah Jones (born February 25, 1976 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American actress , screenwriter and singer .

Life

Rashida Jones is the younger daughter of media mogul, producer and musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton . She has an older sister, Kidada Jones , and five half-siblings (through her father's other relationships). Her father is of African American and Welsh origins and her mother is of Russian Jewish and Latvian Jewish origins. Jones was brought up in the tradition of Reform Judaism and attended a Hebrew school, which she left when she was ten, which is why she did not have a bat mitzvah . She grew up in Bel Air . Her parents separated when Jones was 14 years old and she then grew up with her mother in Brentwood . After graduating from college, she planned to become a lawyer, but then studied religion and philosophy at Harvard . Already there she turned to the performing arts, played in several plays and was the musical director of an a cappella group. She finished her studies in 1997.

Acting career

Jones made her acting debut with a small role in the miniseries The Last Don in 1997. After a supporting role in the Emmy- winning television film Women Love Women and a guest appearance in the series Voll besides, Voll im Leben (2000), Jones succeeded with the role of Louisa Fenn in the Fox series Boston Public 's breakthrough.

After her role was written off the show after two years, Jones starred in a number of cinema and television films, including the romantic comedy My Boyfriend's Ex-Girlfriends (2004) starring alongside Brittany Murphy . This was followed by the lead role in the British comedy series NY-LON (2004) and another in the TNT series Wanted (2005) as Detective Carla Merced . Jones also appeared in a few pilot episodes, but they were not produced beyond the pilot. In 2006 she played from the third season of the successful series The Office regularly the sales employee Karen Filippelli . In the fourth, fifth and seventh seasons, she had guest appearances in this role in one episode each.

In 2008, she received another lead role in a comedy series Unhitched , which was soon canceled, and she also made guest appearances in over three episodes of Lisa Kudrow's Web Therapy .

The writers Greg Daniels and Michael Schur hired Jones for Parks and Recreation before the concept of the new series was established. She played the lead role of Ann Perkins , the best friend of the main character Leslie Knope ( Amy Poehler ) , from the first to the middle of the sixth season . After that, she only appeared in individual episodes of the series. She developed the comedy series Stuck for Fox together with Will McCormack .

In addition to her involvement in Parks and Recreation , she was also wanted in the romantic comedy Best Man! (2009) and in Cop Out - Loaded and unlocked (2010). In 2010, Jones played the role of Marylin Delpy , the defender of Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg ) on The Social Network . In 2011 she played in the comedy Friends with Benefits . Other roles followed in the comedies My Idiot Brother , The Big Year and Jason Segel's The Muppets . She wrote the script for Celeste & Jesse together with Will McCormack and played the leading female role.

From 2016 to 2019, Jones was a police officer at the side of series partner Hayes MacArthur for the television series Angie Tribeca in front of the camera.

Music career

From an early age, Jones played classical piano concertos and was honored with awards. As a background singer, she supported the band Maroon 5 and contributed a song to Tupac Shakur's tribute album. Shakur was her sister's fiancé.

Personal

Jones is involved in a variety of charitable causes, primarily children. After relationships with Tobey Maguire , music producer Mark Ronson , Josh Hartnett and her Das-Büro colleague John Krasinski , she was dating Barack Obama's speechwriter Jon Favreau . In August 2018, she became the mother of a son. Father is the singer of the band Vampire Weekend , Ezra Koenig.

In 2018 she was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography (selection)

As an actress
As a screenwriter
As a producer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shay Riley: DID YOU KNOW? The Ancestry Of Quincy Jones . Booker Rising. 2010-19-09. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ Interview with Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , aired July 30, 2012
  3. ↑ Quincy Jones Interview - . Academy of Achievement. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved March 31, 2012.
  4. ^ Quincy Jones on his Welsh roots , British Broadcasting Corporation. July 4, 2009. Retrieved April 27, 2012. 
  5. ↑ New DNA test results trace Oprah Winfrey's ancestry to Liberia / Zambia: Zambia News . Zambia News. February 6, 2006.
  6. Jump up ↑ Brad Balfour: Actors Rashida Jones and Chris Messina Entangle in Monogamy . In: Huffington Post , March 11, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2018. "Rashida Jones:" I'm proud to be black. I'm proud to be Jewish. "" 
  7. ↑ Kevin Polowy: Q&A: RASHIDA JONES ON WRITING, RON SWANSON AND IRRATIONALITY OVER HER RACE . In: MTV News , August 2, 2012. Accessed May 24, 2018. 
  8. ↑ According to her statement on the US television series Who Do You Think You Are? , May 4, 2012
  9. ↑ Robert Demist: 'Bored? Creatively I'm Bored, But ... ' . In: The New York Times , March 19, 1972. Retrieved May 24, 2018. 
  10. ^ Maria Elena Fernandez: Rashida Jones on How Angie Tribeca Is Bringing Back the Silly-Serious Comedy . In: Vulture , January 14, 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2018. 
  11. ^ Rashida Jones discovers her family's holocaust secret . In: Newshub , May 6, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2018. 
  12. ^ Hadley Freeman: Rashida Jones: 'There's more than one way to be a woman and be sexy' . February 14, 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  13. ^ Rashida Jones Talks Comedy, Parents . In: Porter Edit / NET-A-PORTER.COM , May 18, 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2018. "Rashida Jones:" I am a product of slaves. I am also a product of Jewish immigrants and Holocaust survivors. " " 
  14. ↑ Gerri Miller: The Daughter of Q . In: American Jewish Life Magazine . Genco Media LLC. 2007. Archived from the original on May 16, 2008. Retrieved November 1, 2007.
  15. ↑ Gerri Miller: Rashida Jones' New Title: Executive Producer . October 2, 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  16. ^ Jews Making News: Rashida Jones, Isla Fisher . In: Atlanta Jewish Times , July 1, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2018. 
  17. ^ David A. Keeps: In the Lead . In: Arrive Magazine . July – August 2012, pp. 58–65.
  18. ^ Hadley Freeman: Rashida Jones: "There's more than one way to be a woman and be sexy" . In: The Guardian . 15th February 2014.
  19. ↑ Harvard Alumni website (screenshot) . Retrieved August 19, 2015.
  20. ^ Rashida Jones . IMDb.
  21. ↑ Steven Zeitchik: Rashida Jones knows her comedy stats . In: Los Angeles Times , March 26, 2011. Retrieved March 28, 2011. 
  22. ^ Nellie Andreeva: Rob Lowe & Rashida Jones To Exit 'Parks & Recreation', NBC Eyes New Show For Lowe . In: Deadline.com . July 31, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  23. ↑ Riema Al-Khatib: Parks and Recreation: Rashida Jones developed Comedy Stuck for FOX . In: Serienjunkies.de . August 8, 2013. Retrieved September 17, 2013.
  24. ^ Rashida Jones Joins The Big Year . Empire Online. Retrieved September 17, 2010.
  25. ↑ Nellie Andreeva: Rashida Jones To Topline Steve Carell's TBS Comedy Pilot 'Tribeca' . In: Deadline . January 22, 2014. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  26. ↑ 'Angie Tribeca' to End After Four Seasons on TBS . May 10, 2019.
  27. ↑ Quincy Jones: Q Notes: It's A Family Affair , The Official Website of Quincy Jones. Archived from the original on March 14, 2010. Retrieved April 1, 2011. 
  28. ↑ Rashida Jones: 5 Things You May Not Know About Her ABC News, August 1, 2012
  29. ↑ Powerful Musk-Ox Rashida Jones Has Made A Painfully '90s R&B Music Video For You , junkee.com, January 11, 2016
  30. ↑ Read A 17-Year-Old Rashida Jones' Fiery Letter To Tupac In 1993 , uproxx.com, August 27, 2013
  31. ^ Karen Mizoguchi: Rashida Jones and Ezra Koenig Welcome Son Isaiah . In: People.com . September 26, 2018. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  32. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).

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SURNAME Jones, Rashida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Rashida Leah (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress, writer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California, United States