Jennifer Aniston Biography

Jennifer AnistonJust like Rachel, the character she played on Friends, Jennifer Aniston was a waitress before becoming a prime time television icon. Although she has had her share of personal troubles in the past year, Aniston has held on to the positive attitude and sunny personality that has made her one of Hollywood's sweethearts.Jennifer Aniston was born on February 11, 1969, in Sherman Oaks, California. She began her formal acting training early, spending her high school years as a drama student at the New York High School of the Performing Arts. After her graduation in 1987, Jennifer appeared in off-Broadway productions, as well as the short-lived sitcoms The Edge and Molloy.Aniston's big break came in 1994, when she successfully landed the part of Rachael Green in the television show Friends, which was originally called Friends Like These. The show would become one of the most successful sitcoms of all time. Friends was on the air for ten years, and each of the actors eventually commanded one million dollars per episode for their appearances.Although Aniston is perhaps best known as Rachael Green, she has also appeared in many successful films such as The Good Girl, Office Space, and the hit comedy The Breakup. Her film career shows no sign of slowing down. In 2006 she also appeared with the British actor, CLive Owen, in Derailed. Now she is set to produce and act in several upcoming films, including The Senator's Wife.Jennifer's Friends co-stars are also her pals in real life. She is the godmother of Courteney Cox and David Arquette's child. Cox acted alongside Aniston in Friends, as the obsessive Monica Geller. She was also good friends with Matthew Perry, another Friends co-star, and even offered to be his personal trainer in his publicized weight loss struggle.Jennifer married movie star Brad Pitt in July of 2000, and the pair was quickly named one of Hollywood's power couples. Pitt is a highly sought after actor whose hit movies have included Fight Club and Ocean's Eleven. This perfect union ended in divorce in October of 2005 amidst allegations that Pitt was having an affair with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar Angelina Jolie. Since the divorce, Pitt and Jolie have given birth to a daughter and are quite open about the status of their relationship. Jennifer seems to be handling the end of her marriage and tabloid coverage remarkably well. She has been very private about both the divorce and the infidelity allegations.Aniston was also rumored to be romantically involved with Vince Vaughn, who was her co-star in The Breakup. Unlike Pitt, however, she was not so open about her relationship status; even though Vaughn and Aniston had been spotted together in places like Malibu, they insisted that they were just friends for quite some time. Now the two have gone public about their relationship, though the rumors have not stopped. The two were rumored to be engaged, and then to have broken up. The rumors and speculations, whether the two are open or private about their realtionship, seem unlikely to end.

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