Rashida Leah Jones born February 25, 1976 is an American film and television actress, comic book author, screenwriter, and occasional singer. Jones has had film roles in Our Idiot Brother, The Social Network, The Muppets, and I Love You, Man. Rashida has an older sister, Kidada Jones. They also have five half-siblings by their father are other relationships. Her father, who is African-American, also has more distant Welsh, English, French, Italian, Huguenot, and Cameroonian Tikar roots. Her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish. Rashida 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. As an adult, Jones practices Judaism.