Birth name: Courteney Bass Cox
Birth place: Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Birth date: June 15, 1964
Profession: Actress, Film Producer, Model
Year active: 1984–present
Most Recent Role: Dr. Taylor Maddox on ‘Scrubs’

As a kid Courteney Cox was rebellious and a very difficult, especially after her parents Courteney and Richard Lewis Cox got divorced and she had to live with her step father. Cox spent most of her childhood in Mountain Brook, Alabama, a wealthy suburb of Birmingham. There she attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was famous as a cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer. After completing her graduation she took admission at Mount Vernon College, in order to study architecture and interior design. Though only after a year she dropped out of college to pursue a career in modeling, but designing is still her passion and she keeps doing that even today.

Her modeling assignment was for the Ford Modeling Agency. She has also appeared on the covers of magazines like Tiger Beat and Little Miss. She has modeled for brands like Maybeline, Noxema, New York Telephone Company and Tampax. While she still modeling she started taking acting lessons, because that was what she really wanted to do. In 1984 she got her first acting assignment, though her major acting break came with video ‘Dancing in The Dark’. Nothing much was happening in her life until 1994, when she was chosen for the role of Monica in the series ‘Friends’. In the series she played the role of Monica for ten years and the success came along with that. She and other co-stars are the highest paid TV actresses of all time with $1 million-per-episode for the last two seasons of Friends.

Besides ‘Friends’ she has had a notable film career. She has been a part of The Scream Trilogy, where her bitchy role was well appreciated. She has also worked in movies like ‘The Runner’, ‘3000 Miles to Graceland’ and ‘The Shrink Is In.’

As far as her personal life is concerned, Courteney is married to David Arquette and has a daughter, by the name Coco Riley Arquette. The couple has been married for nine years now.

Coming to her future career prospects, soon she will join the cast of ‘Scrubs’ for three episodes. She will also be seen in a new series called ‘Cougar Town’, where Courteney will be playing the role of a newly single 40-year-old mother.