Rashida Jones

Rashida Leah Jones (born February 25, 1976) is an American actress, comic book author, film producer, 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. 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 which she wrote the screenplay.

Early life

Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actress Peggy Lipton and musician and record producer Quincy Jones. She is the younger sister of actress and model Kidada Jones. The two also have five half-siblings from their father's other relationships. Jones' father, who is African-American (with Tikar roots from Cameroon), also has more distant English and Welsh ancestry. Her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant of immigrants from Russia and Latvia). Jones and her sister were raised in Reform Judaism by their mother; she attended Hebrew school, though she left at the age of ten and did not have a Bat Mitzvah.