Rashida Jones

Rashida Leah Jones (born February 25, 1976) is an American actress, comic book author, producer, singer, and screenwriter. She is known for playing Ann Perkins on NBC's comedy Parks and Recreation, Louisa Fenn on Fox's Boston Public and Karen Filippelli on The Office, as well as a small role in the TV show Freaks & Geeks. She has had film roles in I Love You, Man (2009); Our Idiot Brother (2011); The Social Network (2010); The Muppets (2011) and Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), for the last of which she also wrote the screenplay. She now plays the lead role in the TBS comedy series Angie Tribeca, and co-wrote the screenplay for Toy Story 4. 2Early life Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actress Peggy Lipton and musician/record producer Quincy Jones. She is the younger sister of actress and model Kidada Jones, and half-sister to five siblings from their father's other relationships. Jones' father, who is African American (with Tikar roots from Cameroon), also has distant English and Welsh ancestry. Her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Latvia). Jones and her sister were raised in Reform Judaism by their mother; Jones attended Hebrew school, though she left at the age of ten and did not have a Bat Mitzvah. Jones grew up in Los Angeles' Bel Air neighborhoo