Courteney Cox
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Courteney Cox was born on June 15, 1964. She is an American actress, film producer and former model, best known for her role as Monica Geller on the sitcom Friends. She has also starred in Dirt, Scrubs and the Scream trilogy. Courteney is the fourth child of Richard and Courteney Cox. She has one brother, Richard, two sisters and nine half-siblings.
Courteney’s parents divorced when she was ten. She stayed with her mother who married businessman Hunter Copeland (*1918) in 1976. Her father, a building contractor, moved to Florida where he remarried in 1975. The final break-through to a star she achieved in 1994 with the hit tv-series "Friends" where she is playing "Monica Geller".
The show’s producers originally envisioned her in the role of Rachel but Courteney convinced them to give her the other role. Her biggest success on the big screen so far was the movie "Scream" (1996) which made more than $100 million in the US. After the low budget movie "Commandments" (release 5/97) she continued the success with the sequel of Scream. It was released December 12, 1997 and made almost $40 million at its opening weekend.
Since Friends, Cox has primarily concentrated on her family but has starred in the independent film November (2005), which had a limited theatrical release, co-starred with Tim Allen in the critically derided Zoom and cameoed in the big budget remake of The Longest Yard, as the girlfriend of Adam Sandler’s character. Cox later said her breasts were digitally enhanced to portray her role as the wife of a quarterback. She has recently supplied her voice for the animated film Barnyard.
A Friends reunion film was rumored to be released within the next 18 months following the success of Sex and the City: The Movie but this has been denied by Warner Bros. and others. Since 2007, Cox has starred as Lucy Spiller, a cynical tabloid editor, in Dirt, a television drama for the FX network. Cox and her husband, David Arquette, are the executive producers of the series.
According to Cox, the series was canceled after the second season in 2008. In July 2008, Entertainment Weekly announced that Cox had signed on to star in a three episode arc for the television series Scrubs. In August 2008, it was announced that there will be a fourth film in the Scream series, and that they want the original actors to reprise their roles. On October 30, 2008, TV Guide reported that Cox will be starring in a pilot for a new single-camera comedy series on ABC called Cougar Town. Cox will be playing a newly single 40-year-old mother. In 2009 Cox joined the cast of Scrubs for three episodes after the show moved to ABC.
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