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 Courteney Cox was born on June 15th, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, into an affluent Southern family. She is the daughter of Courteney (Bass) and Richard Lewis Cox (1930-2001), a businessman. She was the baby of the family with two older sisters (Virginia and Dottie) and an older brother, Richard, Jr. She was raised in an exclusive society town, Mountain Brook, Alabama. Courteney was the archetypal daddy's girl, and therefore was understandably devastated when, in 1974, her parents divorced, and her father moved to Florida.She became a rebellious teen, and did not make things easy for her mother, and new stepfather, New York businessman Hunter Copeland. Now, she is great friends with both. She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was a cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer. In her final year, she received her first taste of modeling. She appeared in an advert for the store, Parisians. Upon graduation, she left Alabama to study architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon College. After one year she dropped out to a pursue a modeling career in New York, after being signed by the prestigious Ford Modelling Agency. She appeared on the covers of teen magazines such as Tiger Beat and Little Miss, plus numerous romance novels. She then moved on to commercials for Maybeline, Noxema, New York Telephone Company and Tampax.While modeling, she attended acting classes, as her real dream and ambition was to be an actress. In 1984, she landed herself a small part in one episode of As the World Turns (1956) as a young d��butante named Bunny. Her first big break, however, was being cast by Brian De Palma in the Bruce Springsteen video "Dancing in The Dark". In 1985, she moved to LA to star alongside Dean Paul Martin in Misfits of Science (1985). It was a flop, but a few years later, she was chosen out of thousands of hopefuls to play Michael J. Fox's girlfriend, psychology major Lauren Miller in Family Ties (1982).In 1989, Family Ties (1982) ended, and Cox went through a lean spell in her career, featuring in unmemorable movies such as Mr. Destiny (1990) with Michael Caine. Fortunes changed dramatically for Cox, when in 1994, she starred alongside Jim Carrey in the unexpected hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), and a year later she was cast as Monica Geller on the hugely successful sitcom Friends (1994). It was this part that turned her into an international superstar and led to an American Comedy Award nomination. In 1996 Cox starred in Wes Craven's horror/comedy Scream (1996) . This movie grossed over $100 million at the box office, and won Cox rave reviews for her standout performance as the wickedly bitchy and smug TV reporter Gale Weathers. She went on to play this character again in each of the three sequels. Not only did her involvement in this movie lead to critical acclaim, but it also led to her meeting actor husband David Arquette. He played her on-screen love interest Dewey, and life imitated art as the two fell in love for real. Their wedding took place in San Francisco, at the historic Grace Cathedral atop Nob Hill, on June 12th, 1999. Joined by 200 guests, including Cox's film star friends Liam Neeson and Kevin Spacey, the happy couple finally became Mr. and Mrs. Arquette.
Bio:
Courteney Cox was born on June 15th, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, into an affluent Southern family. She is the daughter of Courteney (Bass) and Richard Lewis Cox (1930-2001), a businessman. She was the baby of the family with two older sisters (Virginia and Dottie) and an older brother, Richard, Jr. She was raised in an exclusive society town, Mountain Brook, Alabama. Courteney was the archetypal daddy's girl, and therefore was understandably devastated when, in 1974, her parents divorced, and her father moved to Florida.She became a rebellious teen, and did not make things easy for her mother, and new stepfather, New York businessman Hunter Copeland. Now, she is great friends with both. She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was a cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer. In her final year, she received her first taste of modeling. She appeared in an advert for the store, Parisians. Upon graduation, she left Alabama to study architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon College. After one year she dropped out to a pursue a modeling career in New York, after being signed by the prestigious Ford Modelling Agency. She appeared on the covers of teen magazines such as Tiger Beat and Little Miss, plus numerous romance novels. She then moved on to commercials for Maybeline, Noxema, New York Telephone Company and Tampax.While modeling, she attended acting classes, as her real dream and ambition was to be an actress. In 1984, she landed herself a small part in one episode of As the World Turns (1956) as a young d��butante named Bunny. Her first big break, however, was being cast by Brian De Palma in the Bruce Springsteen video "Dancing in The Dark". In 1985, she moved to LA to star alongside Dean Paul Martin in Misfits of Science (1985). It was a flop, but a few years later, she was chosen out of thousands of hopefuls to play Michael J. Fox's girlfriend, psychology major Lauren Miller in Family Ties (1982).In 1989, Family Ties (1982) ended, and Cox went through a lean spell in her career, featuring in unmemorable movies such as Mr. Destiny (1990) with Michael Caine. Fortunes changed dramatically for Cox, when in 1994, she starred alongside Jim Carrey in the unexpected hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), and a year later she was cast as Monica Geller on the hugely successful sitcom Friends (1994). It was this part that turned her into an international superstar and led to an American Comedy Award nomination. In 1996 Cox starred in Wes Craven's horror/comedy Scream (1996) . This movie grossed over $100 million at the box office, and won Cox rave reviews for her standout performance as the wickedly bitchy and smug TV reporter Gale Weathers. She went on to play this character again in each of the three sequels. Not only did her involvement in this movie lead to critical acclaim, but it also led to her meeting actor husband David Arquette. He played her on-screen love interest Dewey, and life imitated art as the two fell in love for real. Their wedding took place in San Francisco, at the historic Grace Cathedral atop Nob Hill, on June 12th, 1999. Joined by 200 guests, including Cox's film star friends Liam Neeson and Kevin Spacey, the happy couple finally became Mr. and Mrs. Arquette.
Tivia:
Gave up smoking with husband David Arquette shortly before their wedding in 1999. Admits to having smoked since she was age 13.She was paid $350 for her role as the "surprised" girl pulled from the crowd to dance with Bruce Springsteen in his 1984 music video "Dancing in the Dark".Was six months pregnant, with her daughter Coco, when she completed filming on the final season of Friends (1994).She was the inspiration to the running gag of the Carlton Dance on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990). The Carlton Dance was a parody of her dance during Bruce Springsteen's music video "Dancing in the Dark".Had eight miscarriages between 2001-2010 during her marriage to David Arquette. Her first miscarriage happened in 2001, before her daughter Coco was born; the next seven miscarriages happened after Coco's birth. The eighth miscarriage happened in August 2010.Her Friends (1994) co-star Jennifer Aniston is the godmother of her daughter Coco. Jennifer is also best friends with Courteney.Originally offered the role of Rachel but she preferred Monica on Friends (1994).Was the first person to ever say "period" on American television, in a Tampax commercial.Her daughter's name Coco came from a compromise between her and husband David Arquette. Because of her Southern roots she wanted to name her daughter Courteney Cox, as her mom is Courteney Cox and so is she. However, David is half Jewish and it is against Jewish tradition to name a child after a living person. So the name came from the nickname Courteney's friends had for her mother while Courtney was growing up. They called her Mama Coco.Is the only regular Friends (1994) cast member to not receive either an Emmy or a Golden Globe nomination for their work on the show; she later received her first Golden Globe nomination for Cougar Town (2009).She can play the piano and drums.Had a six-year relationship with actor Michael Keaton (1989-1995).Helped donate reward money to the "Natalie Holloway" investigation, having attended the same high school as Natalie.Was originally turned down for her role in Scream (1996), portraying Gale Weathers, due to the producers not believing she could portray someone "bitchy" as she was starring on Friends (1994) at the time, portraying "nice" Monica. However, she continued lobbying for the role and ultimately got the role.On June 26, 2014, Courteney announced she is engaged to Snow Patrol band member, John McDaid. They have been in a relationship since December 2013. Her friend, Ed Sheeran, introduced him to her.Announced in September 1999 that her new legal and professional surname would be Courteney Cox Arquette. As a result the cast and producers of her sitcom Friends (1994) also added "Arquette" to their own names in the opening credits of the 1999 season's premiere episode. She later returned to her maiden name professionally.Her wedding ring was engraved with the words "A deal is a deal".Her hosting of the 1995 airing of Saturday Night Live (1975) began with a reenactment of her "Dancing in the Dark" video appearance, with Adam Sandler copying Bruce Springsteen.After the birth of her daughter, started to train in Karate. As of 2009, she holds a brown belt.Went into labor on her fifth wedding anniversary, June 12, 2004, and gave birth to her daughter the next day, two days before her 40th birthday.Alfonso Ribeiro credits Courtney Cox for his infamous dance, "The Carlton". While working on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990), he did an exaggerated version of Cox's "Dancing in the Dark" dance, whenever his Carlton Banks character was excited or celebrating.Gave birth to her first child at age 39 (albeit two days before her 40th birthday), a daughter Coco Riley Arquette (aka Coco Arquette), on June 13, 2004. Child's father is her then-husband, David Arquette.Good friends with Laura Dern, Sheryl Crow and Ellen DeGeneres.Her ex-husband, David Arquette, played "Malcolm" in the Friends (1994) episode, The One with the Jam (1996), on October 3, 1996. He played a stalker and mistakenly stalked fellow friend, "Phoebe". This was the first time Courtney and David were seen together on television, even though they were not a couple at the time.Worked at video game developer/publisher Bethesda briefly in the 1980s.Gets proposed to twice by characters played by actor Matthew Perry. First in Friends (1994) and later in Cougar Town (2009).Is one of three actors - along with David Arquette and Neve Campbell - to appear in all four Scream films.Was named the "Hottest Babe" by Playboy magazine (1995).Her estranged husband, David Arquette, filed for divorce from her on June 8, 2012 after 12 years of marriage and 1 year and 7 months of separation.She likes to buy houses, renovate them, and then sell them for profit. [This is known as "flipping" for houses and is the subject of a number of home-improvement television shows].Distant cousin of M?tley Cr��e frontman Tommy Lee. They are both descendants of the same English Bass family. Distant cousin of Friends (1994) co-star and on-screen husband Matthew Perry. Both descend from the English Baldwins. Other cousins include Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Matt Bomer and Valerie Bertinelli.Returned to work four months after giving birth to her daughter Coco in order to begin filming The Longest Yard (2005).Underwent laser eye surgery to correct her vision from 20/400 (1999).Along with Jennifer Aniston, they are the only central members of the Friends (1994) cast to have received an actual acting Razzie nomination. Courtney was nominated for Worst Supporting Actress for the film 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001). Jennifer Aniston was nominated for Worst Actress for the films, The Switch (2010) and The Bounty Hunter (2010). The other cast members (except for Matthew Perry) have received nominations in categories such as Worst Screen Couple and Worst New Star.On June 25, 2004, Courteney announced she and husband David Arquette are launching a production company called Coquette.Studied architecture at Mount Vernon College for a year.Dated singer Adam Duritz. Duritz wrote the song "Monkey" for Courteney (from the Counting Crows album "Recovering the Satellites") (1997).She starred on the comedy show, Friends, with co-star Christina Pickles playing her on-screen mother, Judy Gellar. Both actresses previously starred together in the movie, Masters of the Universe. Courteney Cox playing Julie, and Christina Pickles playing the Sorceress.Is a huge fan of the rock band Foo Fighters.She has English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, German, and distant Swedish, ancestry.Participated in the third Munchkin's Project Pink annual breast cancer awareness campaign to raise money for breast cancer research. The project consists of the donation of celebrity-decorated and autographed bath ducks, put up for auction. (October 2008)In the mid-1980s, she hosted a television show called This Week's Music (1984).Drives a Jaguar and a silver Porsche Carrera.Has her own lipstick called "Cece" by Cargo.She appeared in Bruce Springsteen's video for Dancing In The Dark when she was a teenager. She was in the front row with her friends when Bruce offered Courtney his hand, pulled her up on stage, and started dancing with her.Lives in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California.Dropped out of Mount Vernon College after one year to pursue an acting and modeling career.Has three dogs: Ella, Rags and Mr. McBarker (Mac for short). The latter is, rather unfortunately, a female.Best known by the public for her starring role as Monica Geller-Bing on Friends (1994).In 1984, she worked at F.B.I. (Frontier Booking International), a concert booking agency in New York run by Ian Copeland (brother of Stewart Copeland of The Police) and a relative of hers. |
| Name: |
Courteney Cox |
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Actress,Producer,Director (IMDB) |
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All World |
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Actress,Producer,Director |
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Actress,Producer,Director |
| Model rank: |
113 |
| Last update: |
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| Height: |
5' 5' (1.65 m) |
| Biography: |
Courteney Cox was born on June 15th, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, into an affluent Southern family. She is the daughter of Courteney (Bass) and Richard Lewis Cox (1930-2001), a businessman. She was the baby of the family with two older sisters (Virgi |
| Trivia: |
Gave up smoking with husband David Arquette shortly before their wedding in 1999. Admits to having smoked since she was age 13.She was paid $350 for her role as the "surprised" girl pulled from the crowd to dance with Bruce Springsteen in his 1984 music video "Dancing in the Dark".Was six months pregnant, with her daughter Coco, when she completed filming on the final season of Friends (1994).She was the inspiration to the running gag of the Carlton Dance on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990). The Carlton Dance was a parody of her dance during Bruce Springsteen's music video "Dancing in the Dark".Had eight miscarriages between 2001-2010 during her marriage to David Arquette. Her first miscarriage happened in 2001, before her daughter Coco was born; the next seven miscarriages happened after Coco's birth. The eighth miscarriage happened in August 2010.Her Friends (1994) co-star Jennifer Aniston is the godmother of her daughter Coco. Jennifer is also best friends with Courteney.Originally offered the role of Rachel but she preferred Monica on Friends (1994).Was the first person to ever say "period" on American television, in a Tampax commercial.Her daughter's name Coco came from a compromise between her and husband David Arquette. Because of her Southern roots she wanted to name her daughter Courteney Cox, as her mom is Courteney Cox and so is she. However, David is half Jewish and it is against Jewish tradition to name a child after a living person. So the name came from the nickname Courteney's friends had for her mother while Courtney was growing up. They called her Mama Coco.Is the only regular Friends (1994) cast member to not receive either an Emmy or a Golden Globe nomination for their work on the show; she later received her first Golden Globe nomination for Cougar Town (2009).She can play the piano and drums.Had a six-year relationship with actor Michael Keaton (1989-1995).Helped donate reward money to the "Natalie Holloway" investigation, having attended the same high school as Natalie.Was originally turned down for her role in Scream (1996), portraying Gale Weathers, due to the producers not believing she could portray someone "bitchy" as she was starring on Friends (1994) at the time, portraying "nice" Monica. However, she continued lobbying for the role and ultimately got the role.On June 26, 2014, Courteney announced she is engaged to Snow Patrol band member, John McDaid. They have been in a relationship since December 2013. Her friend, Ed Sheeran, introduced him to her.Announced in September 1999 that her new legal and professional surname would be Courteney Cox Arquette. As a result the cast and producers of her sitcom Friends (1994) also added "Arquette" to their own names in the opening credits of the 1999 season's premiere episode. She later returned to her maiden name professionally.Her wedding ring was engraved with the words "A deal is a deal".Her hosting of the 1995 airing of Saturday Night Live (1975) began with a reenactment of her "Dancing in the Dark" video appearance, with Adam Sandler copying Bruce Springsteen.After the birth of her daughter, started to train in Karate. As of 2009, she holds a brown belt.Went into labor on her fifth wedding anniversary, June 12, 2004, and gave birth to her daughter the next day, two days before her 40th birthday.Alfonso Ribeiro credits Courtney Cox for his infamous dance, "The Carlton". While working on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990), he did an exaggerated version of Cox's "Dancing in the Dark" dance, whenever his Carlton Banks character was excited or celebrating.Gave birth to her first child at age 39 (albeit two days before her 40th birthday), a daughter Coco Riley Arquette (aka Coco Arquette), on June 13, 2004. Child's father is her then-husband, David Arquette.Good friends with Laura Dern, Sheryl Crow and Ellen DeGeneres.Her ex-husband, David Arquette, played "Malcolm" in the Friends (1994) episode, The One with the Jam (1996), on October 3, 1996. He played a stalker and mistakenly stalked fellow friend, "Phoebe". This was the first time Courtney and David were seen together on television, even though they were not a couple at the time.Worked at video game developer/publisher Bethesda briefly in the 1980s.Gets proposed to twice by characters played by actor Matthew Perry. First in Friends (1994) and later in Cougar Town (2009).Is one of three actors - along with David Arquette and Neve Campbell - to appear in all four Scream films.Was named the "Hottest Babe" by Playboy magazine (1995).Her estranged husband, David Arquette, filed for divorce from her on June 8, 2012 after 12 years of marriage and 1 year and 7 months of separation.She likes to buy houses, renovate them, and then sell them for profit. [This is known as "flipping" for houses and is the subject of a number of home-improvement television shows].Distant cousin of M?tley Cr��e frontman Tommy Lee. They are both descendants of the same English Bass family. Distant cousin of Friends (1994) co-star and on-screen husband Matthew Perry. Both descend from the English Baldwins. Other cousins include Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Matt Bomer and Valerie Bertinelli.Returned to work four months after giving birth to her daughter Coco in order to begin filming The Longest Yard (2005).Underwent laser eye surgery to correct her vision from 20/400 (1999).Along with Jennifer Aniston, they are the only central members of the Friends (1994) cast to have received an actual acting Razzie nomination. Courtney was nominated for Worst Supporting Actress for the film 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001). Jennifer Aniston was nominated for Worst Actress for the films, The Switch (2010) and The Bounty Hunter (2010). The other cast members (except for Matthew Perry) have received nominations in categories such as Worst Screen Couple and Worst New Star.On June 25, 2004, Courteney announced she and husband David Arquette are launching a production company called Coquette.Studied architecture at Mount Vernon College for a year.Dated singer Adam Duritz. Duritz wrote the song "Monkey" for Courteney (from the Counting Crows album "Recovering the Satellites") (1997).She starred on the comedy show, Friends, with co-star Christina Pickles playing her on-screen mother, Judy Gellar. Both actresses previously starred together in the movie, Masters of the Universe. Courteney Cox playing Julie, and Christina Pickles playing the Sorceress.Is a huge fan of the rock band Foo Fighters.She has English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, German, and distant Swedish, ancestry.Participated in the third Munchkin's Project Pink annual breast cancer awareness campaign to raise money for breast cancer research. The project consists of the donation of celebrity-decorated and autographed bath ducks, put up for auction. (October 2008)In the mid-1980s, she hosted a television show called This Week's Music (1984).Drives a Jaguar and a silver Porsche Carrera.Has her own lipstick called "Cece" by Cargo.She appeared in Bruce Springsteen's video for Dancing In The Dark when she was a teenager. She was in the front row with her friends when Bruce offered Courtney his hand, pulled her up on stage, and started dancing with her.Lives in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California.Dropped out of Mount Vernon College after one year to pursue an acting and modeling career.Has three dogs: Ella, Rags and Mr. McBarker (Mac for short). The latter is, rather unfortunately, a female.Best known by the public for her starring role as Monica Geller-Bing on Friends (1994).In 1984, she worked at F.B.I. (Frontier Booking International), a concert booking agency in New York run by Ian Copeland (brother of Stewart Copeland of The Police) and a relative of hers. |
| Trademarks: |
Black hair and blue eyes |
| Quotes: |
It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate... I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
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I get so bored! I had a treadmill... I gave it to my mom. I had a stairmaster... gone. I had a recumbent bike... I don't know where that is. So I hate exercise except for Pilates.
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I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.
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A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.
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I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies - my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like Fargo (1996). |
| Salaries: |
Friends: The Reunion (2021) - $2,500,000
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Scream 4 (2011) - $7,000,000
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Cougar Town (2009) - $100,000 /episode (2009-10)
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November (2004) - $150,000
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3000 Mil |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Director |
| Others works: |
(1985) Print ad/TV commercial: Noxzema skin cream.
TV commercial: Maybelline.
(1984) TV commercial: Tampax.
TV commercial: The New York Telephone Co.
(1989) Stage: Starred in "King of Hearts" at The Tiffany Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.
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| Spouse: |
David Arquette (June 12, 1999 - May 28, 2013) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Children: |
Coco Arquette |
| Parents: |
Courteney Bass
Richard Lewis Cox
Hunter Copeland |
| Relatives: |
Dottie Pickett (Cox) (Sibling)
Virginia Cox (Sibling)
Richard Cox (Sibling)
Jennifer Kristin Cox (Cousin)
Valerie Bertinelli (Cousin)
Enzo Rossi (Niece or Nephew)
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