The Real Rachel
Swot up on your fave FRIEND Jennifer Aniston
because she's worth it.
* Jennifer was born in Sherman Oaks,
California, and brought up in New York City. She also spent a year of her
childhood living in Greece but nowadays Jen lives in Los Angeles - that's
when she's not visiting boyfriend Brad Pitt's ranch in Austin, Texas.
* Jennifer's first acting experience
was aged 11, at the Rudolph Steiner School's drama club. She then moved
on to New York's High School of the Performing Arts to study drama. After
graduating she won her first television role in a comedy show called Molloy,
back in 1989. Five sitcoms followed then Jen was invited to audition for
FRIENDS.
* Jennifer admits to being the class
clown at drama school and was thrown out of class for trying to make her
classmates laugh during serious scene rehearsals.
* Her least favourite school subject
was PE One day when her school basketball team was a player short Jen had
to stand in as a last minute replacement. Unfortunately as she ran onto
the court, Jen tripped and sprained her ankle!
* Jennifer has a real life group
of 12 FRIENDS in Los Angeles that she's known since she moved there ten
years ago. She says they're like her own special L.A family and that they
help keep her feet on the ground.
* According to Jennifer, Matt Perry
is the funniest FRIEND, thanks to his remote controlled rude noise machine!
Jennifer says Matt's always catching out the rest of the cast with his
crazy practical jokes.
* Although Jennifer has one of the
most famous hairstyles in the world she used to suffer hair hell. She had
curly while all her pals had straight and Jen wished she could be the same.
* Jennifer says what she looks for
in a boyfriend is, "Kindness, good manners and a good sense of humour"
Let's hope Brad measures up!
* Jennifer met Brad for the first
time in May last year but only admitted whom her new boyfriend was at the
beginning of 1999 after one newspaper claimed the couple had secretly married!
* We've heard that the most horrible
rumour Jennifer's ever heard about her was that she'd had cosmetic surgery!
* Modest Jen hates watching her
own movies because she reckons her head looks way too big!
* Workaholic Jennifer's favourite
way to spend a night in is in front of her computer returning e-mails,
while she munches her way through a bag of yummy tortilla chips with yummy
dips.
* Romantic Brad recently sent Jen
a huge bunch of flowers! The note attached read: "Without you I am nothing.
Love is wonderful." No wonder she's mad about him!
* FRIENDS studio bosses couldn't
believe it when Jennifer interrupted a high level meeting to answer an
emergency telephone call. It turns out Brad wanted the recipe for mousakka
so he could prepare dinner. He figured Jennifer's Greek family background
made her an expert!
* Jennifer's the youngest and only
unmarried FRIENDS girl! She was 30 on February 11th. Courteney Cox is 35
and was married to her SCREAM co-star David Arquette in June. Lisa Kudrow
is 34 and married French advertising whiz Michael Stern in 1995. Lisa had
a son, Julian last year.