Full Name: Courteney Bass Cox Arquette
•Occupation: Actress, Model. Courteney plays the perky, neurotic perfectionist Monica on the hit NBC sitcom Friends.
•Birthday: June 15, 1964
•Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama
•Family: Courteney has three siblings, Richard, Virginia, and Dottie. She is the fourth child of her parents Richard and Courteney who divorced when Cox was 10.
•Career Highlights:
As a teenager, Cox was Bruce Springsteen's dancing partner in Brian de Palma's video of Dancing in the Dark. She has been in several commercials including one for "Head and Shoulders," and she was the first woman to say "period" on tv (during a tampax commercial). Cox played the part of Michael J Fox's girlfriend Lauren in Family Ties, between 1986 and 1988.
Film:
Misfits of Science (1985)
Code Name: Foxfire (1985)
Masters of the Universe (1987)
Cocoon 2: The Return (1988)
Mr. Destiny (1990)
Curiosity Kills (1990)
Blue Desert (1991)
Shaking the Tree (1992)
Battling for Baby (1993)
Opposite Sex...and How to Live With Them (1993)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (1995)
Scream (1996)
Scream 2 (1997)
Commandments (1997)
The Runner (1999)
Scream 3 (2000)
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
The Shrink Is In (2001)
•Love Interests: Cox married Scream co-star David Arquette in June, 1999. (Read more about their marriage here). She is previously linked with actor Michael Keaton and Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz.
•Other Facts:
•Courteney originally read to play the part of Rachel, but felt that she was better suited to play Monica. Cox has said of her character, "She's obsessive, the one who has to be perfect and please everybody. I'm so similar to her it's frightening."
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Courteney was a cover girl for the 1995 issue of People Magazine's 50 most beautiful people in the world and was dubbed "TV's hottest babe" by Playboy magazine.
