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when did jessica alba's career start?
Her first appearance on film was a small role in the 1994 feature Camp Nowhere as Gail.
how old was she?
CANNOTANSWER.
was he first album a hit?
acting classes.
whats a song on her first album?
CANNOTANSWER.
what was her second acting gig?
Alba appeared in two national television commercials for Nintendo and J.
C.
Penney as a child.
She was later featured in several independent films.
name one of her films?
1999 after appearing as a member of a snobby high school clique in the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed.
any other films?
and as the female lead in the 1999 comedy-horror film Idle Hands, opposite Devon Sawa.
did she receive any awards?
11-year-old Alba persuaded her mother to take her to an acting competition in Beverly Hills, where the grand prize was free acting classes.

Question: what happened in 1998?
Self-contained rewrite: what happened to Jessica Alba in 1998