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Rashida Jones: In the Limelight
by Anna Johns, posted Dec 14th 2006 1:10PM
If the previews are correct, it looks like tonight's new episode of The Office will officially kick off the Pam vs. Karen battle. Some of you who favor Pam may look at Karen and say, "Who is this chick?!?" First of all, don't call her a chick. Second of all, I thought this was an ideal time to meet Rashida Jones, the actress who plays Karen on The Office.Rashida Jones has some pretty amazing genes. She is the daughter of legendary music producer Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. Yeah, I know. I'm jealous, too. So, of course this beautiful woman (named one of People's 50 Most Beautiful in 2002) can both act and sing. And she's some sort of piano genius who could play classical concerts at the age of five. She is one of the back-up singers on three songs by Maroon 5's breakthrough album, Songs About Jane. And she's wicked smart, graduating Harvard University in 1997. And, even though I haven't seen it, she apparently does a great job of putting Tupac Shakur in his place during an interview in the documentary Thug Angel (Life of an Outlaw). She didn't like some things Tupac had to say about her famous dad.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about Rashida -- for our purposes, anyway -- is that she actually used to date John Krasinski, who now plays her love interest on The Office. How's that for weird? They broke up before she ever appeared on The Office, and now their characters are romantically involved. In an interview with US Weekly, Jones says acting like she has a romantic relationship with 'Jim' is really not that weird.
Rashida's other television experience includes minor roles in Freaks & Geeks and Boston Public, as the sassy assistant principal, and Stella, as Karen. She was also Edie Miller on the popular British television series, NY-LON and she played Special Agent Carmen Merced on TNT's The Wanted.
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