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- NAME: Courteney Cox Arquette
- OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Television Actress
- BIRTH DATE: June 15, 1964 (Age: 47)
- EDUCATION: Mount Vernon College
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Birmingham, Alabama
- ZODIAC SIGN: Gemini
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Courteney Cox is an actress best known for her role on the hit television series Friends.
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Synopsis
Courteney Cox was born on June 15, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama. She studied architecture at Mount Vernon College,
but dropped out to pursue a modelling in New York City. Cox's big break came when she was cast by Brian De Palma in the Bruce Springsteen video "Dancing in the Dark." Her best known role is Monica Geller on the hit television series Friends. Cox is married to actor David Arquette.
Profile
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 Craven's Scream and its sequel (1996, 1998), and Commandments (1997). Cox earned a Golden Globe nomination for her role as a divorced forty-year in the television series Cougar Town.
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.
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