Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, 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 inherited from the various relationships between her father and his other partners. Her father is African American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant of emigrants from Russia and Latvia). Rashida was born into Reform Judaism. She was raised in Bel Air Los Angeles, California. Jones declared that her mixed race parents were not accepted by the general public until the 1970s. Jones began her professional acting debut in The Last Don in 1997 the mini-series based on Mario Puzo. Also in 1997, Rashida graduated from Harvard University. Went to the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California. Voted the Most Likely Sufferer. Her name is Arabic (O+-O'UO-O(c)) which means "Major adult, mature or wise". People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. (USA] [2002] Half-sister to Quincy Jones III and Jolie Jones. Martina Jones, Kenya Kinski Jones, Rachel Jones, and Martina Jones. The couple was previously married to Mark Ronson (music producer) 25 February 2003. Niece to Robert Lipton. She was romantically associated with Josh Hartnett, Charlie Hunnam and John Krasinski. Kidada Jones was her sister's ring bearer and was singer for the Tupac Shakur tribute track. Kidada and Rashida's brother Quincy Jones III composed the song. Quincy Jones III, their father, was also featured in the intro, singing Shakur's lyrics "Starry Night". The poem is the basis for the song's name. Rashida's father is African-American, as well as having smaller amounts of English, Scottish, and Welsh and Scottish family ancestry (some of his African relatives were of the Tikar people of Cameroon). Rashida's mother, Ashkenazi Jewish (of Russian Jewish heritage as well as Latvian Jewish heritage), is Rashida. Her maternal grandparents are from South Carolina and Mississippi. Her maternal grandfather was born in New York and her maternal grandmother who is of Eastern European Jewish descent, was born in Dublin, Ireland. She has been playing three characters called "Karen" from 2009 to present on the TV show that is a cult comedy show Freaks and Geeks (1999), Stella (2006), and The Office (2005).