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Courteney Cox Biography

in full Courteney Cox Arquette

(1964–)

Related Works

Television
1994–4 Friends
Films

1986 Down Twisted
1987 Masters of the Universe
1988 Cocoon: The Return
1990 Mr Destiny
1991 Blue Desert
1992 Shaking the Tree
1993 The Opposite Sex and How to Live With Them
1994 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1996 Scream
1997 Commandments
1998 Scream 2
2000 Scream 3
2002 Alien Love Triangle
2004 November
2006 Barnyard (voice)
2006 Zoom

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Actress, born on June 15, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. The youngest of four children born to Richard L. and mother Courteney. Her parents split in 1974 and she lived with her mother and step-father Hunter Copeland. As a child, she was athletic and was an avid swimmer and tennis player. She studied architecture for a year at Mount Vernon College, dropped out to pursue a modelling in New York City, then took a range of parts in films and television.

Cox's big break came when she was cast by Brian De Palma in the Bruce Springsteen video "Dancing in the Dark." In 1985, she moved to Los Angeles and landed the role of Lauren Miller — Michael J. Fox's girlfriend on the hit series Family Ties. Cox is perhaps best known for her role as Monica Geller in the acclaimed television series Friends (1994- ). The series made her an international superstar.

Roles in feature films began with Down Twisted (1986), and include Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) co-starring with Jim Carrey, Wes Carven's Scream and its sequel (1996, 1998), and Commandments (1997).

Courteney Cox dated actor Michael Keaton from 1990-95. She married actor David Arquette on June 12, 1999, and the couple welcomed a baby girl in June 2004.