Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California to Quincy Jones, a media mogul and producer, and Peggy Lipton, Rashida is the younger sister of actress Peggy Lipton and Quincy Jones. Her older sister is Kidada Jones, and five half-siblings through the other relationships her father has with his children. Her father is African American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant of refugees from Russia and Latvia). Rashida was raised Reform Judaism. Her birthplace was Bel Air, Los Angeles. Jones has said of her parents of mixed race, "It was the 1970s and it's still not acceptable for them to be in a relationship." Jones was a professional actor when she made her debut on The Last Don, a mini-series in 1997 that was based on a novel written by Mario Puzo. In 1997, Rashida graduated from Harvard University. In 1997, she attended the Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, California. She was awarded the Most Likely to Succeed Award. The name she uses is Arabic (O+-O'UO-O(c)) which means "Major adult, grown-up or wise". In People Magazine's "50 most beautiful people" list. (USA) [2002] Half sister to Quincy Jones III. Jolie Jones III. Martina Jones. Kenya Kinski-Jones. Rachel Jones. On February 25, 2003 Mark Ronson, a music producer, was previously engaged to her. Niece of Robert Lipton. She is romantically linked to Josh Hartnett, Charlie Hunnam and John Krasinski. She sang in a Tupac Shakur tribute song, which was written by Kidada Jones and her sister. Kidada as well as her brother Quincy Jones III composed the song. Quincy Jones III, their father, was also featured at the beginning of the song, reciting Shakur's lines "Starry Night". Shakur's poem is the source for the song's name. Rashida's father is African-American, but also has smaller quantities of English, Scottish, and Welsh and Scottish the ancestry of which is Welsh, Scottish, and English (some of his African family members were descendants of the Tikar people from Cameroon). Rashida's mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (of Russian Jewish and Latvian Jewish descent). Her maternal grandparents, who were both of South Carolina, and Mississippi and Mississippi, were her paternal grandparents. Her maternal grandfather was born in New York and her maternal grandmother, who is of Eastern European Jewish descent, was born in Dublin, Ireland. In the year 2009, she had played three different characters as "Karen" in the classic sitcoms on television: Freaks and Geeks (1999), Stella ((2005) and The Office ((2005)).