STATS: Real Name: Courteney Cox Occupation: Actress Birthday: June 15, 1964 Birth Place: Birmingham, AL Sign: Cancer Contact Address: Courteney Cox c/o FRIENDS 300 Television Plaza Building 136, Room 251 Burbank, CA 91505

A bit about Courteney Courteney Bass Cox was born June 15, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Her parents, Richard and Courteney Cox divorced when little Courteney was 10. She stayed with her mother who remarried as did her father. After graduation from the Mountain Brook High School in Birmingham (1982) she began to study architecture/interior decoration at the Mount Vernon College in Washington. In the summer holidays she went to New York where she was subsequently signed by the Ford modeling agency. After some shoots for magazines like Teen Beat and Young Miss, and for romance-novel covers she started working in television commercials for Maybelline, Noxzema and the New York Telephone Company, among other sponsors. Her first well known work as an actress she did in 1987 when she was cast as the bright, perky girlfriend of Michael J. Fox on "Family Ties". Following the series, she did several feature films which had disappointing box office performance. Courteney had her first success as a movie actress when she appeared in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" together with Jim Carrey. Her stage work includes "King of Hearts" at the Tiffany Theatre in L.A., where she starred with Michael Spound (1989). The final break-through to a star she achieved in 1994 with the hit tv-series "Friends" where she is playing "Monica Geller". The show's producers originally envisioned her in the role of Rachel but Courteney convinced them to give her the other role. In 1995 Courteney co-hosted the "MTV Movie Awards". Her biggest success on the big screen so far was the movie "Scream" (1996) which made more than $100 million in the US. Courteney's most recent movie was "Commandments" (release 5/97). Her current movie is the sequel of Scream ("Scream 2"). It was released December 12, 1997 and made almost $40 million at its opening weekend. Courteney Cox's Links My Homage to Courteney Cox Comletely Courteney Courteney Coxs House Of Veneration Why Courteney Cox is the Best Friend Courteney's Hobbies Courteney likes: Buying houses and fixing them up. Playing the Drums. Courteney does Yoga. Appearing in video clips.(She appeared in Counting Crows, A Long December, and Bruce Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark.