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Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born
February 11, 1969) is an American film and television actor. She became famous
from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s for playing the role of Rachel Green in
the popular US sitcom Friends, a role for which she won an Emmy Award, a Golden
Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She has starred in several Hollywood
films. While most of her film roles have been in comedies such as Bruce
Almighty, Office Space, Rumor Has It, and the romantic comedies Along Came Polly
and The Break-Up, she has also appeared in films from other genres, such as the
crime thriller Derailed.
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Born Jennifer Joanna Aniston[1][2]
February 11, 1969 (1969-02-11) (age
39)
Sherman Oaks, California, United
States
Occupation Actor, director
Years active 1989—
Spouse(s) Brad Pitt (2000–2005)
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Early life
Jennifer Aniston was born in Beverly
Hills, Los Angeles, California, and grew up in New York City.[3] She is the
daughter of the actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow.[4] Aniston's father is
a Greek American, born Yannis Anastassakis, on the island of Crete, Greece,
while her mother was born in New York City of Italian descent.[5] Aniston has
two half-brothers, John Melick (older) and Alex Aniston (younger).[4][3]
Aniston's godfather was the actor Telly Savalas, her father's best friend.[4][3]
She lived in Greece for one year as a child with her family, and they later
relocated to New York City.[4] Her father has appeared in the soap operas Days
of our Lives, Love of Life and Search for Tomorrow.[4] Aniston attended the New
York Rudolf Steiner School[6] and graduated from Manhattan's Fiorello H.
LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.[3] She worked in Off
Broadway productions such as For Dear Life and Dancing on Checker's Grave.[4]
She supported herself with several part-time jobs, including working as a
telemarketer and bike messenger.[4] In 1989, she moved to Los Angeles,
California.[7]
Career
Aniston moved to Hollywood and was
cast in her first television role in 1990, starring as a regular on the
short-lived series Molloy and in the TV movie Camp Cucamonga.[8] She also
co-starred in Ferris Bueller, a television adaptation of the 1986 hit movie
Ferris Bueller's Day Off.[8] The series, however, was quickly canceled.[4]
Aniston then appeared in two more failed television comedy shows, The Edge and
Muddling Through, and guest-starred on Quantum Leap, Herman's Head, and Burke's
Law.[8] After the string of canceled shows, along with her appearance in the
critically derided 1992 horror film, Leprechaun,[9] Aniston considered giving up
acting.[4] Aniston's plans changed, however, after auditioning for Friends, a
sitcom that was set to debut on NBC's 1994–1995 fall line-up.[3][10] The
producers of the show originally wanted Aniston to audition for the role of
Monica Geller,[10] but she persuaded them that she was better suited for the
role of Rachel Green.[10] She was cast in the role and played the character from
1994 until the show ended in 2004.[11][12]
The program was successful and
Aniston, along with her co-stars, gained wide renown among television
viewers.[3] Her hairstyle at the time, which became known as the "Rachel", was
widely copied.[3][4] Aniston received a salary of one million dollars per
episode for the last two seasons of Friends, as well as five Emmy nominations
(two for Supporting Actress, three for Lead Actress),[13][14][15][16] including
a win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.[17] According to the
Guinness World Book of Records (2005), Aniston (along with her female costars)
became the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $1 million-per-episode
paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.[18]
Jennifer Aniston was cast in a
Heineken commercial which was later banned due to branding issues. Later, in
1994, Microsoft invited Aniston, along with Friends co-star Matthew Perry, to
shoot a 30-minute promotional advertisement for their new operating system,
Windows 95.[19] She gained critical acclaim for her performances in The Object
of My Affection (1998), a comedy drama about a girl who falls for a gay man,[20]
and in the low-budget 2002 film, The Good Girl, directed by Miguel Arteta,
playing an unglamorous cashier in a small town. The latter film opened in
relatively few theaters—under 700 in total—taking $14M in the U.S. box
office.[21] In late 2005, Aniston appeared in two major studio films, Derailed
and Rumor Has It.[22][23]
In addition to her career as a TV
actress, Aniston has enjoyed a successful film career. Her biggest box office
success to date was her appearance in 2003's Bruce Almighty, in which she played
the girlfriend of title character Jim Carrey.[24] Aniston then starred in the
2004 film, Along Came Polly opposite Ben Stiller.[25] In 2006, Aniston appeared
in the low-budget drama, Friends with Money, which was first shown at the
Sundance Film Festival, received a limited release.[26] Aniston's next film, The
Break-Up, which was released on June 2, grossed approximately $39.17 million
during its opening weekend, despite lukewarm reviews.[27]
In 2007, Aniston guest starred in an
episode of Courteney Cox Arquette's series Dirt. Aniston played Arquette's
snobby rival Tina Harrod.[28] In addition to acting, Aniston has also directed a
hospital emergency room-set short film named Room 10, starring Robin Wright Penn
and Kris Kristofferson;[29] Aniston has noted that she was inspired to direct by
actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who directed a short film in 2006.[30]
Forbes listed Aniston as the 10th
richest woman in the entertainment industry for the year 2007. She is behind
such powerhouses as Oprah Winfrey, J. K. Rowling, Madonna, Celine Dion and
Jennifer Lopez and is ahead of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and the Olsen
twins. Aniston's net worth is approximately $110 million.[31] Aniston was also
included in the annual Star Salary Top 10 of trade magazine The Hollywood
Reporter for 2006.[32] According to Forbes in October 2007, Aniston was the
top-selling celebrity face of the entertainment industry.[33] In 2008, Aniston
landed the seventeenth spot on Forbes Celebrity 100 list based on "earnings and
fame."[34] Forbes listed Aniston's earnings as $27 million.[35]
Jennifer Aniston appeared in the
third episode of Season 3 of NBC's 30 Rock playing Liz Lemon's old college
roomate who stalks Jack Donaghy.[36]
Aniston appears naked in a series of
photographs that are published on the cover and inside pages of the January 2009
issue of GQ. She tells the magazine that she feels more comfortable today than
she did in her twenties or early thirties. "I'm healthier. I'm more at peace in
my mind and with my body," Aniston says. [37]
Personal life
Aniston has previously dated musician
Adam Duritz,[4] and was engaged to actor Tate Donovan.[38] Her high-profile
relationship with actor Brad Pitt was frequently publicized in the press.[4][39]
She married Pitt on July 29, 2000, in a lavish Malibu wedding.[40] For years
their marriage was considered the rare Hollywood success.[4] However, when Pitt
showed up to the Ocean's Twelve premiere without Aniston, rumors that their
relationship was on the rocks began.[41] In early January 2005, the couple was
seen vacationing in the Caribbean with her Friends co-star Courteney Cox and her
husband, actor David Arquette,[42] and photos on the beach showed them kissing
and affectionate. On January 7, 2005 they announced their separation.[43]
Rumors that Pitt had fallen for
actress Angelina Jolie began when they were shooting the film Mr. and Mrs.
Smith. Jolie and Pitt both denied any claims of adultery, with Jolie declaring
in an interview in 2005, "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father
cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at
myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would
cheat on his wife."[44] Pitt and Aniston were seen together publicly after
announcing their separation, even at a dinner party for Aniston's thirty-sixth
birthday in February, and friends of the couple had declared they were
reconciling.[45] Aniston, however, filed for divorce on March 25, 2005.[2] A
divorce was finalized on October 2, 2005.[46]
Media reports speculated that the
split was due to Aniston's refusal to have children with him; t-shirts were sold
after their separation with the phrase "I'll Have Your Baby, Brad!". Aniston
denied that this was the cause of their split in an August 2005 Vanity Fair
interview, stating, "...I've always wanted to have children, and I would never
again give up that experience for a career." Aniston also revealed that her
divorce prompted her to reach out to her mother, from whom she was estranged for
nearly a decade. They initially became estranged when Nancy talked about her
daughter on a television show and later wrote a book titled From Mother and
Daughter to Friends: A Memoir (1999).[47][48]
She has also stated that she was
devastated by the death of her longtime therapist, whose work helped to make the
separation from Pitt easier.[49] Aniston has said that her relationship with
Pitt, which she does not regret, was "seven very intense years together" and
that "it was a beautiful, complicated relationship."[50] Since the couple's
divorce, Aniston has been romantically linked to actor Vince Vaughn,[51] British
model Paul Sculfor and singer John Mayer.[52][53]
In August 2006, Aniston denied rumors
that she was engaged to Vaughn or that the actor had proposed.[54] In October
2006, gossip magazine Us Weekly quoted sources from Vaughn that the couple had
broken up.[55] In December 2006, representatives for both Aniston and Vaughn
confirmed that they had indeed split up a few weeks before when Aniston visited
Vaughn in London.[56]
The intense media scrutiny of
Aniston's private life continued. It was reported in April 2008 that singer John
Mayer and Aniston were an item. A few weeks later, Mayer hinted the rumours were
true when he told reporters "listen, this is not a scandal, this is not an
issue, this is not a problem, this needs no spin control."
On August 13, 2008, the UK's Daily
Mirror reported that Aniston was "dumped" by Mayer after the pair initially
decided to spend some time apart before making the break official earlier this
week. However, according to USmagazine.com, reports that Mayer had dumped
Aniston were not true and that it was she who dumped him. A relationship expert
tells USmagazine.com that Mayer's pride and ego was the reason he has been
telling people he dumped Aniston. [57] Rumors were put to rest when Mayer
explained on his Myspace that he had ended the relationship because "[he
doesn't] want to waste somebody's time if something's not right". [58]On October
11, 2008, Mayer and Aniston reunited for a dinner at romantic restaurant, Il
Mulino. Since then, Aniston and Mayer have been reported to reunite quite a few
times, once to celebrate Mayer's 31st birthday. She has since confirmed on
Oprah, she is again dating John Mayer. [59]
Tabloids have also fabricated rumors
about Aniston being pregnant with twins, which Aniston has denied.[60]
Aniston has had two septoplasties to
correct her deviated septum—one which was incorrectly done in 1994 and the
second in January 2007. Septoplasty is a surgical operation that helps alleviate
a common condition that can lead to breathing difficulty and trouble
sleeping.[61]
She is the godmother of good friends
and actors Courteney Cox Arquette's and David Arquette's daughter Coco Riley
Arquette.
Philanthropy
Aniston is a supporter of many
charity foundations. She is a supporter of Friends of El Faro, a grassroots
non-profit organization that helps raise money for Casa Hogar Sion—an orphanage
in Tijuana, Mexico and has appeared in a few advertisements on TV for St. Jude's
Children's Research Hospital. She made a guest appearance on Oprah's Big Give
show to support the cause and donated money to help. Aniston hosted September
2008's Stand Up to Cancer show. In the "It Can't Wait" campaign to free Burma,
Aniston directed and starred in a video. On April 14, 2007, Aniston received
GLAAD's Vanguard Award for her contributions to increased visibility and
understanding of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1990 Camp Cucamonga Ava Schector TV
movie
1993 Leprechaun Tory Reding First
feature film
1996 She's the One Renee Fitzpatrick
Dream for an Insomniac Allison
1997 Picture Perfect Kate Mosely
'Til There was You Debbie
1998 The Object of My Affection Nina
Borowski
1999 The Iron Giant Annie Hughes
Voice Only
Office Space Joanna
2001 Rock Star Emily Poule
2002 The Good Girl Justine Last
2003 Bruce Almighty Grace Connelly
2004 Along Came Polly Polly Prince
2005 Rumor Has It Sarah Huttinger
Derailed Lucinda Harris
2006 The Break-Up Brooke Meyers
Friends with Money Olivia
Room 10 n/a Short film, Co-Director
only
2008 Management Sue Claussen
premiered at TIFF
Marley & Me Jenny Grogan 12-25-2008
2009 He's Just Not That into You Beth
02-06-2009
Traveling Lead role no release date
yet
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1990–1991 Ferris Bueller Jeannie
Bueller Main role
1992–1993 The Edge Various characters
Main role
1994–2004 Friends Rachel Green Main
role
Guest appearances
Year Title Role Notes
1990 Molloy Courtney 2 episodes
1992 Quantum Leap Kiki Wilson
"Nowhere to Run" (Season 5, Episode 4)
1992—1993 Herman's Head Suzie Brooks
"Twisted Sister" (Season 1, Episode 25)
"Jay Is for Jealousy" (Season 3,
Episode 8)
1994 Burke's Law Linda Campbell "Who
Killed the Beauty Queen?" (Season 1, Episode 4)
Muddling Through Madeline Drego
Cooper —
1996 Partners CPA Suzanne "Follow the
Clams?" (Season 1, Episode 17)
1998 Disney's Hercules Charmaine
(Voice) "Dream Date" (Season 1, Episode 27)
1999 South Park Mrs. Stevens - Choir
Teacher (Voice) "Rainforest Schmainforest" (Season 3, Episode 1)
2003 Freedom: A History of Us Jessie
Benton "Wake Up America " (Season 1, Episode 4)
King of the Hill Pepperoni
Sue/Stephanie (Voice) "Queasy Rider" (Season 7, Episode 13)
2007 Dirt Tina Harrod "Ita Missa Est
" (Season 1, Episode 13)
2008 30 Rock[62] Claire Harper The
One With the Cast of Night Court (Season 3, Episode 3)
Awards
1996: Screen Actors Guild Award:
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, Friends
2001: People's Choice Award: Favorite
Female Television Performer, Friends
2001: Aftonbladet TV Prize, Sweden:
Best Foreign TV Personality- Female, Friends
2002: Emmy Award: Outstanding Lead
Actress in a Comedy Series, Friends
2002: People's Choice Award: Favorite
Female Television Performer, Friends
2002: Hollywood Film Festival:
Actress of the Year
2002: Teen Choice Award: Choice TV
Actress- Comedy, Friends
2002: Aftonbladet TV Prize, Sweden:
Best Foreign TV Personality- Female, Friends
2003: Golden Globe Award: Best
Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy, Friends
2003: People's Choice Award: Favorite
Female Television Performer, Friends
2003: Teen Choice Award: Choice TV
Actress- Comedy, Friends
2003: Teen Choice Award: Choice Movie
Actress- Drama/Action Adventure, The Good Girl
2003: Aftonbladet TV Prize, Sweden:
Best Foreign TV Personality- Female, Friends
2004: Logie Awards: Most Popular
Overseas Star, Friends
2004: People's Choice Award: Favorite
Female Television Performer, Friends
2004: Teen Choice Award: Choice TV
Actress- Comedy, Friends
2004: Aftonbladet TV Prize, Sweden:
Best Foreign TV Personality- Female, Friends
2006: Teen Choice Award: Choice Movie
Chemistry (shared with Vince Vaughn), The Break-Up
2007: People's Choice Award: Favorite
Female Movie Star
2007: GLAAD Media Awards: Vanguard
Award
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