Birth name: Jennifer Joanna Aniston
Birth place: Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
Birth date: February 11, 1969
Profession: Actress
Year active: 1989–present
Most Recent Role: Herself on Live with Regis and Kelly

Most likely, if I call her by the name of Rachel Green, more people can relate to her. Jennifer is most famous for the role of Rachel on ‘Friends’, which she played for ten years. Rachel plays one of the friends in the series. Rachel plays the daughter of a rich father and after some encouragement from her friends she decides to earn for herself and later in the series works as a waitress, to support herself.

Jennifer Anniston was born to actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow. Her parents got divorced, when she was nine years old and she was raised by her mother, from then on. Acting was in her genes and she was exposed to acting by her father. Her father has appeared on soap operas like Days of our Lives, Love of Life and Search for Tomorrow. At the age of eleven Jennifer joined the Rudolf Steiner School’s drama club and ever since then she wanted to become an actress. She further took admission at New York’s High School of the Performing Arts, where she was a student of drama. In 1989, the actress moved to New York and started her acting career. The same year she was able to get a regular role on the series ‘Molloy’. But the series did not run for long. Till 1994, the actress appeared on a number of shows, but none of them were successful. That was the time when she thought of leaving acting. But then she was chosen for the role of Rachel in the hit series ‘Friends’ and everything changed for her from then on.

Besides television, Jennifer has also worked in a number of films. We have seen her in films like ‘The Good Girl’, ‘Bruce Almighty’, ‘Along Came Polly’ and ‘The Break up’. Her roles in all her movies were well appreciated. As for 2007, Jennifer is considered as the 10th richest woman in the entertainment industry. Jennifer and her co-stars were the highest paid TV actresses of all time with $1 million-per-episode for the last two seasons of Friends.

As far as her personal life is concerned, Jennifer was married to actor, Brad Pitt. But in 2005, the couple decided to end their marriage of five years after Aniston suspected Brad of cheating on her with his co-star Angelina Jolie. As per the news the actress after her divorce was seen dating Vince Vaughn and John Mayer.

Most recently the actress appeared on the third season of 30 Rock, where she did the role of Claire Harper. In future you will see her in movies like ‘He’s Just Not that Into You’ and ‘Traveling’.