Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Alba ya nuna sha'awar yin aiki tun yana dan shekara biyar. A cikin 1992, Alba mai shekaru 11 ta shawo kan mahaifiyarta ta kai ta gasar wasan kwaikwayo a Beverly Hills, inda babban kyautar ta kasance darussan wasan kwaikwayo kyauta. Alba ta lashe babban kyautar, kuma ta dauki darussan wasan kwaikwayo na farko. Wani wakili ya sanya hannu kan Alba watanni tara bayan haka. Farkon fitowarta a fim shine ƙaramar rawa a cikin fim ɗin Camp Nowhere na 1994 a matsayin Gail. Da farko an dauke ta aiki na makonni biyu amma rawar da ta taka ta zama aiki na watanni biyu lokacin da daya daga cikin fitattun 'yan mata suka fice.Alba ta bayyana a tallan talbijin na kasa guda biyu don Nintendo da J. C. Penney a matsayin yaro. Daga baya an nuna ta a fina-finai masu zaman kansu da yawa. Ta shiga cikin talabijin a cikin 1994 tare da rawar da ke maimaitawa a matsayin Jessica mai girman kai a cikin aukuwa uku na jerin wasan kwaikwayo na Nickelodeon The Secret World of Alex Mack. Daga nan ta yi rawar Maya a farkon yanayi biyu na jerin shirye-shiryen talabijin na Flipper. A karkashin kulawar mahaifiyarta mai ceton rai, Alba ta koyi yin iyo kafin ta iya tafiya, kuma ta kasance mai ba da takardar shaidar PADI, ƙwarewar da aka yi amfani da ita a wasan kwaikwayon, wanda aka yi fim a Ostiraliya. A cikin 1998, ta bayyana a matsayin Melissa Hauer a cikin farkon kakar wasan kwaikwayon Steven Bochco na wasan kwaikwayo na Brooklyn South, a matsayin Leanne a cikin aukuwa biyu na Beverly Hills, 90210, kuma a matsayin Layla a cikin wani ɓangaren Love Boat: The Next Wave. A cikin 1999, ta bayyana a cikin Randy Quaid comedy feature P.U.N.K.S.. Bayan Alba ta kammala karatu daga makarantar sakandare, ta yi karatun wasan kwaikwayo tare da William H. Macy da matarsa, Felicity Huffman, a Kamfanin Atlantic Theater, wanda Macy da Pulitzer Prize suka lashe wasan kwaikwayo da kuma darektan fim, David Mamet. Alba ta sami babban matsayi a Hollywood a cikin 1999 bayan da ta bayyana a matsayin memba na ƙungiyar makarantar sakandare ta snobby da ke azabtar da editan kwafin da ba shi da tsaro a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na soyayya da ba a taɓa sumbace shi ba, a gaban Drew Barrymore, kuma a matsayin mace mai jagora a cikin fim ɗin ban tsoro na ban tsoro, tare da Devon Sawa.  Tambaya: Yaushe Alba ta shiga talabijin?
Shekarar 1994