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Even today's biggest stars have grown up from nobodies, and this time we will learn about the story of Courteney Cox, who played Monica in "Friends" and was the only one of the six who was not nominated for an Emmy.
Encountered family changes at an early age
Courteney was born on June 15, 1964, in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, to a family of six. She was the youngest in Cox's family, and in addition to her, she had two older sisters and an older brother.
Young Courtney
When she was only 10 years old, her parents divorced, and her remarried mother brought her five step-siblings. Despite this, Courtney has always been haunted by her parents' divorce and pointed the finger at her mother, Courtney Cowbenland.
With my mother
Since childhood, I have had a dream of architecture
As a child, Courtney's dream was not to be an actress, but to be an architect. After graduating from high school, she attended Mount Vernon University (now part of the University of Washington) in Washington, D.C., to study architecture.
However, she soon found out that she didn't have the life to study architecture, so she dropped out of school and switched to modeling and acting. Of course, she hasn't completely given up on her dream of being an architect, so when her own house needs to be renovated, she will also be a hands-on client, not just a hands-on shopkeeper.
A model turned actor
Prior to Friends, Courteney had a variety of careers, including a game publisher clerk, model, and commercial actress. When she shot a commercial for Tampax tampons in 1984, she was the first girl in American history to say the word "big aunt" in a television commercial.
A Tampax tampon advertisement shot in his early years
She later appeared in Bruce Springsteen's music video "Dancing in the Dark". In order to show his face on this music video, the competition can be described as extremely fierce. When the director-elect asked Courtney about her acting experience, she also told the truth: "I only spent two days on the crew of the long-lived TV series "Earth Turns", but your decision will change all that."
In Bruce Springsteen's music video
Indeed, the casting director's decision changed Courtney's career forever, and she later appeared in the music video for rock group Counting Crows, "Long December," and in a number of TV series. She is best known for her role as Michael Brown in the sitcom "Family Bond". J. Fox's girlfriend Lauren Miller.
Play as Michael M. J. Fox's girlfriend
In addition to showing her face in the TV series, Courteney has not been idle in the field of film. She has played roles in "He-Man, the Giant of the Universe", "The Superman Secret Service", "Sky Cocoon" and "Detective Plane Head", which are familiar to Chinese audiences.
Team up with Dragoner in He-Man, the giant of the universe
Styling from The Incredibles
Play as a female scientist in Skycoon
Starred in Jim Carrey's famous comedy "Detective Plane Head"
Mao then recommended himself to play Monica
In a blink of an eye, in 1994, when the creators were looking for an actor to play Rachel Green, they thought of Courtney. Yes, the crew initially gave Courtney the role of Rachel, but then it was discovered that she was actually Monica herself.
Create a classic Monica image in Friends
Interestingly, it was actually Courtney who recommended herself, and she was actually more suitable to play Monica. Because she found a fit with herself in this role, for example, they are equally determined and independent, which is significantly different from the image of girls portrayed on most television.
The eldest sister in and out of the play
Due to Monica's personality, Courtney has become a patriarch-like character in the six. As a result of the success of Friends, temptations abound, and all Cortney has to do is unite them and work towards a common goal. As the saying goes, if everyone works together, its profit will be golden!
Screaming Queen Metamorphosis Town Milf
During the filming of Friends, Courteney also played the role of Gail Waiters in the horror thriller series Scream. Although the tone of the film itself is completely different from "Friends", the character of Gale and Monica have many things in common. They are all strong and determined, believing that where there is a will, there is a way.
Become a generation of screaming queens
I think that's one of the reasons why Scream will find Courtney. From 1996 to 2023, Courtney's "Scream" career has been 27 years long.
In television, with the end of "Friends", Courteney opened two new series, "Gossip" and "Mature Womantown" in 2006 and 2009, respectively. Unlike the former, which ended after a season, "Mature Town" aired simultaneously on NBC and CBS until 2015.
Playing the editor-in-chief of the magazine in "Rumors", the scale of the episode is very large
The more successful town
After "Mature Woman Town", Courtney's acting career seems to have reached a bottleneck, and it seems to have become the norm for her to shoot one shot at another in the field of television and film. It wasn't until 2022 that she once again had a resident role in the new drama "Flash Valley".
Styling from the horror comedy "Flash Valley".
Directorial debut and personal life
In addition to the role of an actor, Courtney, who has already made a lot of money through "Friends", began to enter the field of directing. For her directorial debut "Before I Go" in 2015, in order to solve the initial funding problem, she paid $1.5 million out of her own pocket, so that the film has a good cast team, and also creates conditions for more funding injection in the later stage.
Director's debut "Before I Go"
Although Courteney and ex-husband David Arquette divorced in 2012, ending their 13-year marriage, they have maintained a good post-divorce relationship, such as raising their only daughter Coco together. David was also involved in the filming of Courtenay's Before I Left.
With her daughter and ex-husband
After the divorce, she began dating Snow Patrol member Johnny McDade, and got engaged in 2014. But they broke off their engagement soon after, but the two are still a couple.
With new love Johnny McDade
From plastic surgery maniacs to plain faces
Rumors that she and Jennifer Aniston had cosmetic surgery are no longer news. Obviously, their delicate faces are inseparable from the help of technology and ruthlessness! When she was still filming "Friends", she underwent facial filler surgery.
However, in 2019, she announced that she would not only stop renovating her face, but also remove the implants that had already been implanted. She once admitted that she first started cosmetic surgery because she was dissatisfied with her appearance, but when she realized that the surgery had almost changed her into a different person, she began to face the reality of her aging and embrace her true self.
Plastic surgery has indeed gone too far
End
After the end of Friends, fans had hoped that the series would one day be rebooted, but today, with the aging of the show's original cast and, in particular, the passing of Matthew Perry, that hope has become extravagant. The 2021 HBO Max Friends: Reunion special is the only official reunion and the last.
There will never be six more framed photos of them
However, from another point of view, fans of "Friends" are lucky, because it is very likely that the rebooted series will not reach the heights of the original, and it is better to let the golden sign of "Friends" maintain its perfection and innocence.