Jennifer Aniston
Rachel Green for ten seasons, an Emmy winner and one of the highest-paid actresses in the world.
Jennifer Joanna Aniston, born February 11, 1969, is an American actress who rose to international fame playing Rachel Green on Friends from 1994 to 2004, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. The daughter of actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow, she has also won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards and has consistently ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses.
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Jennifer Joanna Aniston
- Born
- 11 February 1969
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Actress, producer
- Years active
- 1987–present
- Parents
- John Aniston, Nancy Dow
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Background
Her first major film role was the 1993 horror comedy Leprechaun; after Friends she starred in comedies including Office Space, Bruce Almighty, The Break-Up, Marley & Me, Just Go with It, Horrible Bosses, We're the Millers and Murder Mystery, which together grossed over $1.6 billion worldwide, and in the independent films The Good Girl, Friends with Money and Cake. In 2019 she returned to television producing and starring in the Apple TV+ drama The Morning Show, which brought her a Screen Actors Guild Award. She co-founded the production company Echo Films and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was married to Brad Pitt from 2000 to 2005 and to Justin Theroux from 2015 to 2018, and in 2021 took part in Friends: The Reunion with the rest of the main cast.
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