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Jennifer Aniston
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Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American
film and television actress. She became famous in the mid 1990s for playing
the role of Rachel Green in the popular US sitcom Friends, a role for which
she won both an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
She has starred in several Hollywood films, often alongside a member of the
Frat Pack. While most of her film roles have been in comedies such as Bruce
Almighty, Office Space, Rumor Has It, and the romantic comedies Along Came
Polly and The Break-Up, she has also appeared in films from other genres,
such as the crime thriller Derailed.
Aniston's marriage to actor Brad Pitt and their subsequent divorce received
widespread media coverage.
Early life
Jennifer Aniston was born on February 11, 1969 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles,
California, and grew up in New York City. She is the daughter of the actor
John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow. Aniston's father is a Greek American,
born Yannis Anastassakis, on the island of Crete, Greece, while her mother
was born in New York City of English and Scottish descent. Aniston has two
half-brothers, John Melick (older) and Alex Aniston (younger). Aniston's
godfather was the actor Telly Savalas, her father's best friend. She lived
in Greece for one year as a child with her family, and they later relocated
to New York City. Her father has appeared in the soap operas Days of Our
Lives, Love of Life and Search for Tomorrow.[ Aniston attended the New York
Rudolf Steiner School and graduated from Manhattan's Fiorello H. LaGuardia
High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. She worked in Off Broadway
productions such as For Dear Life and Dancing on Checker's Grave. During
this time, she supported herself with several part-time jobs, including
working as a telemarketer and bike messenger. In 1989, she moved to Los
Angeles, California.
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Career
Aniston moved to Hollywood and was cast in her first television role in
1990, starring as a regular on the short-lived series Molloy and in the TV
movie Camp Cucamonga. She also co-starred in Ferris Bueller, a television
adaptation of the 1986 hit movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.[The series,
however, was quickly canceled. Aniston then appeared in two more failed
television comedy shows, The Edge and Muddling Through, and guest-starred on
Quantum Leap, Herman's Head, and Burke's Law. After the string of canceled
shows, along with her appearance in the critically derided 1992 horror film,
Leprechaun, Aniston considered giving up acting. Aniston's plans changed,
however, after auditioning for Friends, a sitcom that was set to debut on
NBC's 1994-1995 fall line-up. The producers of the show originally wanted
Aniston to audition for the role of Monica Geller, but she persuaded them
that she was better suited for the role of Rachel Green. She was cast in the
role and played the character from 1994 until the show ended in 2004.
The program was successful and Aniston, along with her co-stars, gained wide
renown among television viewers. Her hairstyle at the time, which became
known as the "Rachel", was widely copied. Aniston received a salary of one
million dollars per episode for the last two seasons of Friends, as well as
five Emmy nominations (two for Supporting Actress, three for Lead Actress),
including a win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. According
to the Guinness World Book of Records (2005), Aniston (along with her female
costars) became the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $1
million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.
In 1994, Microsoft invited Aniston, along with Friends co-star Matthew
Perry, to shoot a 30-minute promotional advertisement for their new
operating system, Windows 95. She gained critical acclaim for her
performances in The Object of My Affection (1998), a comedy drama about a
girl who falls for a gay man, and in the low-budget 2002 film, The Good
Girl, directed by Miguel Arteta, playing an unglamorous cashier in a small
town. The latter film opened in relatively few theaters - under 700 in total
- taking $14M in the U.S. box office. In late 2005, Aniston appeared in two
major studio films, Derailed and Rumor Has It.
In addition to her career as a TV actress, Aniston has enjoyed a successful
film career. Her biggest box office success to date was her appearance in
2003's Bruce Almighty, in which she played the girlfriend of title character
Jim Carrey. Aniston then starred in the 2004 film, Along Came Polly opposite
Ben Stiller. In 2006, Aniston appeared in the low-budget drama, Friends with
Money, which was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival, received a
limited release. Aniston's next film, The Break-Up, which was released
on June 2, grossed approximately $39.17 million during its opening weekend,
despite lukewarm reviews.
In 2007, Aniston guest starred in an episode of Courteney Cox Arquette's
series Dirt. Aniston played Arquette's snobby rival Tina Harrod. In
addition to acting, Aniston has also directed a hospital emergency room-set
short film named Room 10, starring Robin Wright Penn and Kris Kristofferson;
Aniston has noted that she was inspired to direct by actress Gwyneth Paltrow,
who directed a short film in 2006.
Forbes listed Aniston as the 10th richest woman in the entertainment
industry for the year 2007. She is behind such powerhouses as Oprah Winfrey,
J. K. Rowling, Madonna, Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez and is ahead of
Britney Spears,
Christina Aguilera and the Olsen twins. Aniston's net worth
is approximately $110 million. Aniston was also included in the annual Star
Salary Top 10 of trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter for 2006. According
to Forbes in October 2007, Aniston was the top-selling celebrity face of the
entertainment industry. In 2008, Aniston landed the seventeenth spot on
Forbes Celebrity 100 list based on "earnings and fame." Forbes listed
Aniston's earnings as $27 million.In august 2008 she had dinner in a Beverly
Hills' restaurant with Woody Allen and his wife: he's in fact interested on
her for a romantic film that'll be released in autumn 2009.
Jennifer Aniston will be appearing in the third episode of season 3 of NBC's
30 Rock.
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Personal life
Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002Aniston
has previously dated musician Adam Duritz, and was engaged to actor Tate
Donovan. Her high-profile relationship with actor Brad Pitt was frequently
publicized in the press. She married Pitt on July 29, 2000, in a lavish
Malibu wedding. For years their marriage was considered the rare Hollywood
success. However, when Pitt showed up to the Ocean's Twelve premiere without
Aniston, rumors that their relationship was on the rocks began. In early
January 2005, the couple was seen vacationing in the Caribbean with her
Friends co-star Courteney Cox and her husband, actor David Arquette, and
photos on the beach showed them kissing and affectionate. On January 7, 2005
they announced their separation.
Rumors that Pitt had fallen for actress Angelina Jolie began when they were
shooting the film Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Jolie and Pitt both denied any claims
of adultery, with Jolie declaring in an interview in 2005, To be intimate
with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not
something I could forgive, said Jennifer Aniston. I could not look at myself
in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would
cheat on his wife."Pitt and Aniston were seen together publicly after
announcing their separation, even at a dinner party for Aniston's
thirty-sixth birthday in February, and friends of the couple had declared
they were reconciling. Aniston, however, filed for divorce on March 25, 2005
A divorce was finalized on October 2, 2005.
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Media reports speculated that the split was due to Aniston's refusal to have
children; t-shirts were sold after their separation with the phrase "I'll
Have Your Baby, Brad!". Aniston denied that this was the cause of their
split in an August 2005 Vanity Fair interview, stating, "I've never in my
life said I didn't want to have children... I've always wanted to have
children, and I would never give up that experience for a career." Aniston
also revealed that her divorce prompted her to reach out to her mother, from
whom she was estranged for nearly a decade. They initially became estranged
when Nancy talked about her daughter on a television show and later wrote a
book titled From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir (1999).
She has also stated that she was devastated by the death of her longtime
therapist, whose work helped to make the separation from Pitt easier.
Aniston has said that her relationship with Pitt, which she does not regret,
was "seven very intense years together" and that "it was a beautiful,
complicated relationship." Since the couple's divorce, Aniston has been
romantically linked to actor Vince Vaughn, British model Paul Sculfor and
singer John Mayer.
In August 2006, Aniston denied rumors that she was engaged to Vaughn or that
the actor had proposed. In October 2006, gossip magazine Us Weekly
quoted sources from Vaughn that the couple had broken up. In December 2006,
representatives for both Aniston and Vaughn confirmed that they had indeed
split up a few weeks before when Aniston visited Vaughn in London.
The intense media scrutiny of Aniston's private life continued. It was
reported in April 2008 that singer John Mayer and Aniston were an item. A
few weeks later, Mayer hinted the rumours were true when he told reporters
"listen, this is not a scandal, this is not an issue, this is not a problem,
this needs no spin control."
On August 13, 2008, the U.K.'s Daily Mirror reported that Aniston was
"dumped" by Mayer after the pair initially decided to spend some time apart
before making the break official earlier this week. However, according to
USmagazine.com, reports that Mayer had dumped Aniston were not true and that
it was she who dumped him. A relationship expert tells USmagazine.com that
Mayer's pride and ego was the reason he has been telling people he dumped
Aniston.
Aniston has had two septoplasties to correct her deviated septum; — one
which was incorrectly done in 1994 and the second in January 2007.
Septoplasty is a surgical operation that helps alleviate a common condition
that can lead to breathing difficulty and trouble sleeping.
Aniston is also a supporter of Friends of El Faro, a grassroots non-profit
that helps raise money for Casa Hogar Sion -- an orphanage in Tijuana,
Mexico.
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