Facts & Trivia

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FACTS

Name: Rashida Leah Jones
Date of Birth: 25th February 1976
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California
Sun Sign: Pisces
Height: 5'4"
Education: The Buckley School, Harvard University (Class of '97)
Marital Status: Single
Parents: Quincy Jones & Peggy Lipton
Siblings: Jolie*, Rachel**, Martina***, Quincy 'Snoopy' III***, Kidada, Kenya****
Hobbies: Para-sailing, skydiving, hiking, riding, Boggle

(Mother: Jeri Cauldwell = *, Ulla Jones = **, Nastassja Kinski = ***)

TRIVIA

- In between takes of The Office Rashida plays Boggle and IM's her co-stars and e-mailing her pals.

[Source: People Magazine, 2007]



- At 17, Rashida was booted out of the National Honor Society for having a beer at a cafe during a school trip to Paris, France.

[Source: E!Online, 2001]



- In her early teen years, Rashida travelled to an ashram in India with her mother Peggy Lipton.

[Source: Us Weekly, 2001]



- Though she is Jewish by birth, Rashida practiced Hinduism for a time, but has since reverted to Judaism.

[Source: Us Weekly, 2001 & American Jewish Life, 2007]



- She majored in religion and philosophy at Harvard.

[Source: Us Weekly, 2001]



- Rashida can wiggle one ear at a time.



- The name Rashida is arabic for "rightly guided". Leah is Hebrew for "weary one".

[Source: Baby Names]



- Rashida is fond of taking 10 minute "power naps".

[Source: Us Weekly, 2001]



- She used to be a raver in college.

[Source: Glamour, 2005]



- Rashida is a distant cousin of Jane Fonda on her dad, Quincy's side of the family.

[Source: 'My Life So Far' by Jane Fonda, 2006]



- Rashida sang backing vocals on two tracks on Maroon 5's 'Songs About Jane'

[Source: Maroon 5]



- Rashida's former fiance DJ Mark Ronson wrote the track 'Rashi' about Rashida.

[Source: Mark Ronson]



- Rashida was briefly engaged to 'Spider Man' star Tobey 'Toady' Maguire.

[Source: Glamour, 2005]



- Rashida's ancestry is Cherokee, West African and Welsh (on her dad's side) and Irish/Russian Jew (on her mom's).

[Source: Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, 2001]



- Rashida is a published author. She penned a chapter in Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones and was a contributing editor at Teen Vogue.)

[Source: Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, 2001]



- Rashida campaigned for John Kerry in 2004.

[Source: Kerry/Edwards, 2004]



- Rashida used to smoke but quit in 2004.

[Source: Paper Magazine, 2004]