Jennifer Aniston - Biography

 
An Emmy and Grammy award winning American actress, Jennifer Aniston started appearing in stage production since the late 1980s. It was the hugely popular television sitcom by name Friends that won her the golden Globe and the Emmy award and also made her popular in the public.

Early Life

Jennifer Aniston was born on 11th February, 1969 in Sherman Oaks, California. She grew up in New York City. Jennifer Aniston is the daughter of Greek-American actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow. Jennifer’s graduation took place at Manhattan’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Arts and Performing Arts. Jennifer’s desire to become an actress grew since the days she was working for Off-Broadway productions. During this time, she also supported herself by doing part-time jobs, working as a telemarketer and also a bike messenger.

Career

It was in the year 1990 Jennifer Aniston started appearing as a”nutri-system” girl on The Howard Stem Radio System Show. After this Jennifer Aniston moved to Hollywood to cast in her first television show on the series Molly. Though she appeared in a number of televisions shows, most of them were unsuccessful. After all these failures, Jennifer Aniston almost decided to give up her acting profession.

After succeeding in the auditioning for the TV sitcom Friends, she changed her decision of giving up acting. Though producers wanted her to do the role of Monica Geller but instead she persuaded them saying that she would better suit for the role of Rachel Green. She cast in the role and played the character of Rachel Green from the year 1994 until 2004, the year which the show ended. It became a great success. The Guinness Book of World Record also states that Jennifer Aniston is the highest paid TV actress. Her pay check is about $1 Million for a single episode.

Jennifer Aniston also did some promotional videos for Microsoft and Windows95. In the year 2003, Jennifer Anniston featured in a film called Bruce Almighty. This was her biggest box office hit. The film’s gross revenue is almost 243 million dollars in the United States box office. Its worldwide revenue was almost double this amount. In the year 2006, Anniston was voted as the ‘Best Dressed Actress’ by the People’s Magazine. The same magazine also labeled her as “the natural”.

Personal Life

Jennifer Anniston dated musician Adam Duritz and got engaged to Tate Donovan. She also dated actor Paul Rudd for a brief period. After this, in the year 2000, Jennifer Anniston married actor Brad Pitt. The couple separated in the year 2005 and then Jennifer officially filed for divorce.

According to the media reports, the main reason for the break-up between Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt was due to Jennifer’s denial of having children. After separating from Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston became close with actor Vince Vaughn. But she later refused about their relationship, when rumors came out about both of them in the year 2006. Later representatives of the couple said that they have split a few weeks ago in London.

Written by on June 24th, 2007 at 1:26 am    

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