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Courteney Cox Arquette (born Courteney Bass
Cox on June 15, 1964) is an American actress and former fashion model,
best known for her role as Monica Geller in the long-running television
series Friends.
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Birth name: Courteney Bass Cox
Date of birth: June 15, 1964
Birth location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notable role(s): Monica Geller in Friends
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Early life
Cox Arquette was born in Birmingham,
Alabama to an affluent Southern family; her late father, Richard L. Cox,
was a businessman and her mother, also named Courteney, was a housewife.
Cox has two older sisters (Dottie Pickett and Virginia Cox), one older
brother (Richard, Jr.) and nine half-brothers and half-sisters. Her
parents divorced in 1974, and her father moved to Florida, while Cox
grew up with her mother and her stepfather, New York businessman Hunter
Copeland.
Cox was raised in an exclusive society
town, Mountain Brook, Alabama. She attended Mountain Brook High School,
where she was a cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer. Upon graduation,
Cox went to study architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon
College for Women. She dropped out after one year to pursue a modeling
career, after being signed by the Ford modeling agency in New York City.
While modeling, she also took acting classes, and lost her Southern
accent.
Career
Cox was the first person to use the word
"period" on U.S. television in its physiological sense, in a 1985
advertising campaign for Tampax brand tampons. After coming to
prominence in the 1984 music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in
the Dark" (in which she became the pulled-on-stage-girl who danced
onstage with Springsteen), she appeared in several theatrical films,
including Masters of the Universe (1987) and Cocoon: The Return (1988).
Cox had a starring role in the short-lived
television series, Misfits of Science (1985) and later had a recurring
role (1987 - 1989) on the television series Family Ties as Alex Keaton's
(Michael J. Fox) last girlfriend.
Cox also appeared as Meryl, Jerry's
girlfriend/pretend wife on the hit TV sitcom Seinfeld in 1994 for one
episode, The Wife. She was a little known actress when she guest starred
on Seinfeld, which was well into its fifth season and getting great
reviews then, like it would for the rest of the time it was on.
Cox is best known for playing Monica Geller
on the hit TV series Friends (1994 - 2004). She became the only
principal member of the show's cast not to be nominated for an Emmy
Award. Cox appeared in several high-profile Hollywood films, including
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), and
Scream 3 (2000), and also appeared in an episode of WCW Monday Nitro
trying to convince her husband David Arquette that he was not a wrestler
after Arquette had recently won the World Heavyweight Championship.
In late 2003, Cox hosted her own television
series, entitled Mix It Up. It was taped at her home and focused on
dealing with a partner moving in and interior decoration. The show
received low ratings and was not renewed for a second season.
In 2005, Cox starred in the independent
film November, which had only a limited theatrical release, and appeared
in the big budget remake of The Longest Yard, although she was
uncredited. She has signed on to star in Dirt, a television drama for
the FX Networks, in which she will play Lucy Spiller, a tabloid editor;
Cox and her husband, David Arquette, will executive produce the
series.[1]
Private life
Courteney Cox has dated agent Ian Copeland,
singer Adam Duritz, and actor Michael Keaton. She met actor David
Arquette on the set of Scream; the couple married on June 12, 1999 in an
Episcopalian ceremony. After the marriage, the opening credits of an
episode of Friends listed all cast and crew members as having the last
name 'Arquette' (example: Matt Le Blanc Arquette).While Cox has
occasionally used her full married name, "Courteney Cox Arquette",
professionally, she continues to be generally known simply as "Courteney
Cox". On June 13, 2004, she gave birth to their first child, Coco Riley
Arquette, a baby girl; her "Friends" co-star, Jennifer Aniston, is the
baby's godmother. Reportedly, Cox initially wanted to name their child
"Courteney," just as Cox herself was named after her mother; however,
Arquette resisted this idea because his Jewish faith discourages naming
children after living relatives. As a compromise, they agreed upon the
name Coco, which was a nickname for Cox's mother.
In 1999, Cox underwent laser eye surgery to
correct her vision, which was at "20/40".
In 2005, she donated money to the Natalee
Holloway investigation, having attended the same high school as
Holloway.
Filmography
Down Twisted (1987)
Masters of the Universe (1987)
Cocoon: The Return (1988)
Mr. Destiny (1990)
Blue Desert (1991)
Shaking the Tree (1992)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Scream (1996)
Commandments (1997)
Scream 2 (1997)
The Runner (1999)
Scream 3 (2000)
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
The Shrink Is In (2001)
Get Well Soon (2001)
Alien Love Triangle (2002)
November (2004)
The Longest Yard (2005)
Alpha Dog (2006)
Barnyard (2006) (voice)
Zoom (2006)
Upcoming:
The Tripper (2007)
Television work
As the World Turns (cast member in 1984)
Code Name: Foxfire (1985)
Misfits of Science (1985-1986)
Sylvan in Paradise (1986)
If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium
(1987)
Family Ties (cast member from 1987-1989)
Seinfeld (guest star on March 17, 1994)
Friends (cast member from 1994-2004)
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