Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Joanna Aniston is an American actress, producer, and businesswoman. She rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends. Aniston has since played starring roles in numerous dramas, comedies and romantic comedies. Her biggest box office successes include Bruce Almighty, The Break-Up, Marley & Me, Just Go with It, Horrible Bosses, and We’re the Millers. She returned to television in 2019, producing and starring in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show.

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Summary Jennifer AnistonJennifer Joanna Aniston is an American actress, producer, and businesswoman. She rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends. Aniston has since played starring roles in numerous dramas, comedies and romantic comedies. Her biggest box office successes include Bruce Almighty, The Break-Up, Marley & Me, Just Go with It, Horrible Bosses, and We’re the Millers. She returned to television in 2019, producing and starring in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show, for which she won another Screen Actors Guild Award. She is divorced from actor Brad Pitt, to whom she was married for five years, and is separated from actor Justin Theroux, whom she married in 2015. She has been included in numerous magazines’ lists of the world’s most beautiful women. Her net worth is estimated to be US$200 million, and she is the recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was born in Los Angeles, California, to Greek-born actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow. Her mother’s ancestry includes English, Irish, Scottish, and a small amount of Greek. Her father’s godfather was actor Telly Savalas, one of her father’s best friends. As a child she moved to New York City. She discovered acting at age 11 at the Waldorf school, and enrolled in Manhattan’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.

She performed in The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hansberry and Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov. She starred as a teenager going to summer camp in the made-for-television film Camp Cucamonga, and as a spoiled daughter followed by a vengeful leprechaun in the horror film Leprechaun. She appeared in Ferris Bueller, a television adaptation of the 1986 film Ferris bueller’s Day Off; both series were quickly canceled. In 1988, she had an uncredited minor role in the critically panned sci-fi adventure film Mac and Me. The next year she appeared on The Howard Stern Show as a spokesmodel for Nutrisystem, and moved back to Los Angeles. She obtained her first regular television role on Molloy in 1990, and appeared in television comedy series, The Edge and Mling Through. She also appeared in two more failed television series, Quantum Leap, Herman’s Head, and Quantum Leap: Depressed, and Little Depressed. In 1994, Aniston was originally cast as a spot for Monica Geller on Friends, but Courteney Cox was deemed more suitable. The producer originally wanted Aniston to audition for the role of Rachel Green, a role that was set to debut on NBC’s 1994–1995 fall lineup. She later played a role in Office Space, The Good Girl, Friends with Money, Cake, and Dumplin’.