Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the youngest daughter of a media mogul, producer and musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. She has an older sister, Kidada Jones, and five half-siblings inherited from the relationships of her father's previous relationships. Her father is African American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant emigrants from Russia as well as Latvia). Rashida was educated in Reform Judaism. She grew up in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Jones admitted that Jones' mixed race parents were unacceptable to her in the 1970s. Jones first professional acting experience was on The Last Don (1997) which was a mini-series inspired by Mario Puzo's novel. Rashida also graduated from Harvard University in 1997. In 1997, she attended the Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, California. Voted Most Likely to Suffer. Arabic (O+ O'UO-O(c) Her name) signifies "Major," adult, mature, wise or older. People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. (USA) [2002Half-sister of Quincy Jones III, Jolie Jones, Martina Jones, Kenya Kinski-Jones, as well as Rachel Jones. Was previously engaged to music producer Mark Ronson on 25th February 2003. Niece of Robert Lipton. She was romantically linked to Josh Hartnett, Charlie Hunnam and John Krasinski. Kidada Jones was the ring bearer for her sister's engagement and she sang as the vocalist in an Tupac Shakur tribute track. Rashida as well as Kidada's brother Quincy Jones III produced the song, and their father, Quincy Jones, made an appearance reciting the lines from Shakur's poem "Starry Night" in the intro. The poem inspired the song's title. Rashida's father was African-American but also has smaller quantities of English, Scottish, and Welsh ancestral the ancestry of which is Welsh, Scottish, and English (some of his African ancestors were from the Tikar people from Cameroon). Rashida is Ashkenazi Jewish, of Russian Jewish and Latvian Jewish descent. Her paternal grandparents came 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. She has been playing three characters that are named "Karen" since 2009 on the cult television comedy show Freaks and Geeks (1999), Stella (2006), and The Office (2005).