Biography

Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) best known as Jennifer Aniston. she won an , Emmy award, a Golden Globe award and a Screen Actors Guild award. She is probably best known for her performance as Rachel in the comedy shows called Friends.

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Aniston has success in comedy and drama film as She´s The One ,Bruce Almighty, Rumor Has It, The Break Up and Marley and Me.

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Early life

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Jennifer was born in Sherman Oaks California, and grew up in New York City.Her father is the actor John Aniston and her mother is the actress Nancy Dow.Her father is a Greek American and her mother is a Italian Scottish. She has a two half-brothers.John Melick (older) and Alex Aniston (younger). Aniston’s godfather was the actor Telly Savalas, her father’s best friend.

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Aniston attended the New York Rudolf Steiner School and graduated from Manhattan’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. She worked in Off Broadway productions such as For Dear Life and Dancing on Checker’s Grave. She supported herself with several part-time jobs, including working as a telemarketer and bike messenger. In 1989, she moved to Los Angeles, California.

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Career

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Aniston moved to Hollywood and was cast in her first television role in 1990, starring as a regular on the short-lived series Molloy and in the TV movie Camp Cucamonga.

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She also co-starred in Ferris Bueller, a television show of the 1986 hit movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The series, however, was quickly canceled. Aniston then appeared in two more canceled television comedy shows, The Edge and Muddling Through, and guest-starred on Quantum Leap, Herman’s Head, and Burke’s Law.

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After the string of canceled shows, along with her appearance in the critically derided 1992 comedy horror film, Leprechaun, Aniston considered giving up acting. Aniston’s plans changed, however, after auditioning for  the  sitcom Friends,  that was set to debut on NBC’s 1994–1995 fall line-up.

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The producers of the show  wanted Aniston first to  audition for the role of Monica Geller, but Courtney Cox was discovered to be best actress for the part of Monica. Thus, Aniston was cast as Rachel Green. She played the character of Rachel for 10 yers from 1994 until the show ended in 2004.

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The program was successful and Aniston, along with her co-stars, gained wide renown among television viewers. Her hairstyle in that time, which became known as the “Rachel”, was widely copied.Aniston received a salary of one million dollars per episode for the last two seasons of Friends, as well as five Emmy nominations (two for Supporting Actress, three for Lead Actress), including a win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

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According to the Guinness World Book of Records (2005), Aniston (along with her female costars) became the highest paid TV actress in the world with her $1 million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.

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Jennifer Aniston was cast in a Heineken commercial which was later banned due to branding issues. Later, in 1994, Microsoft invited Aniston, along with Friends co-star Matthew Perry, to shoot a 30-minute promotional advertisement for their new operating system, Windows 95.

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She gained critical acclaim for her performances in The Object of My Affection (1998), a comedy drama about a girl who falls for a gay man, and in the low-budget 2002 film, The Good Girl, directed by Miguel Arteta, playing an  cashier in a small town. The latter film opened in relatively few theaters—under 700 in total—taking $14M in the U.S. box office. In late 2005, Aniston appeared in two major studio films, Derailed and Rumor Has It

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In addition to her career as a TV actress, Aniston has enjoyed a successful film career. Her biggest box office success to date was her appearance in 2003’s Bruce Almighty, in which she played the girlfriend of  Jim Carrey.

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Aniston then starred in the 2004 film, Along Came Polly opposite Ben Stiller. In 2006, Aniston appeared in the low-budget drama, Friends with Money, which was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival, received a limited release.

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Aniston’s next film, The Break-Up, which was released on June 2, grossed approximately $39.17 million during its opening weekend, despite lukewarm reviews.

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In 2007, Aniston guest starred in an episode of Courteney Cox Arquette’s series Dirt. Aniston played Arquette’s snobby rival Tina Harrod.

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In addition to acting, Aniston has also directed a hospital emergency room-set short film named Room 10, starring Robin Wright Penn and Kris Kristofferson. Aniston has noted that she was inspired to direct by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who directed a short film in 2006.

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Forbes listed Aniston as the 10th richest woman in the entertainment industry in the year 2007. She is behind such powerhouses as Oprah Winfrey, J. K. Rowling, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez and is ahead of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and the Olsen twins.

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Aniston’s net worth is approximately $110 million. Aniston was also included in the annual Star Salary Top 10 of trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter for 2006. According to Forbes in October 2007, Aniston was the top-selling celebrity face of the entertainment industry. In 2008, Aniston landed the seventeenth spot on Forbes Celebrity 100 list based on “earnings and fame. Forbes listed Aniston’s earnings as $27 million.

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Aniston appeared in the third episode of Season 3 of NBC’s 30 Rock playing Liz Lemon’s old college roommate who stalks Jack Donaghy.

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Aniston appears naked in a series of photographs that are published on the cover and inside pages of the January 2009 issue of GQ. She tells the magazine that she feels more comfortable today than she did in her twenties or early thirties. “I’m healthier. I’m more at peace in my mind and with my body,” Aniston says,
Aniston at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival

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On December 25, 2008, Marley & Me, in which Aniston starred alongside Owen Wilson, was released. It set a record for the largest Christmas Day box office ever with $14.75 million in ticket sales.It earned a total of $51.7 million over the four-day weekend and placed number 1 at the box office, a position it maintained for two weeks. As of February 15, 2009 its total world wide gross was $161,608,269.

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Her next film in wide release, He’s Just Not That into You, opened in February 2009. The movie made $27.5 million, ranking number 1 at the box office in its opening weekend. While the film received mixed reviews, Aniston along with Jennifer Connelly, and Ben Affleck are often praised by critics as being the stand-outs in the film.

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She has finished Love happens and that film will be released on the 18 of September 2009. She is acting in the film called Bounty

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As of 2009, Aniston’s movies have grossed $900,618,847 in the United States.

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Personal life

Aniston dated her Ferris Bueller costar Charlie Schlatter in 1990. She began a relationship with Daniel MacDonald in 1991. They broke up in 1994 shortly before she was cast in Friends. She briefly dated musician Adam Duritz in 1995.From 1995 to 1998, she was romantically involved with actor Tate Donovan and the couple were reportedly engaged.

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In 1998, she began dating actor Brad Pitt and married hm on July 29, 2000, in a lavish Malibu wedding. For years their marriage was considered the rare Hollywood success. However, the couple announced their separation on January 6, 2005.

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Pit became involved with actress Angelina Jolie, though Pitt has denied cheating on Aniston with her. Pitt and Aniston were seen together publicly after announcing their separation, even at a dinner party for Aniston’s birthday, and friends of the couple had declared they were reconciling.

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Aniston, however, filed for divorce on March 25, 2005. It was finalized on October 2, 2005. Media reports speculated that the split was due to Aniston’s refusal to have children with him. Aniston denied that this was the cause of their split in an August, 2005 Vanity Fair interview, stating, “…I’ve always wanted to have children, and I would never again give up that experience for a career.”

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Aniston revealed that her divorce prompted her to reach out to her mother, Nancy, from whom she was estranged for nearly a decade. They initially became estranged when Nancy talked about her daughter on a television show and later wrote a book entitled, From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir (1999).

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Aniston has also stated she was devastated by the death of her longtime therapist, whose work helped make her separation from Pitt easier. Aniston said her relationship with Pitt, which she does not regret, was “seven very intense years together” and that “it was a beautiful, complicated relationship.”

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Following her divorce, Aniston began a relationship with actor Vince Vaughn, with whom she costarred in The Break Up. Relationship troubles were reported in September 2006, followed by a confirmed split in December of that year.

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She briefly dated male model Paul Sculfor for a few months in 2007. In April 2008, she began dating singer John Mayer. The couple had broken up after a seven-month courtship in August, but resumed the relationship in October, before splitting again in March 2009.

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Aniston has had two septoplasties to correct her deviated septum—one which was incorrectly done in 1994 and the second in January 2007. Septoplasty is a surgical operation that helps alleviate a common condition that can lead to breathing difficulty and trouble sleeping.[

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She is the godmother of Coco Riley Arquette, the daughter of her good friends, actors Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette.

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Philanthropy

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Aniston is a supporter of many charity foundations. She is a supporter of Friends of El Faro, a grassroots non-profit organization that helps raise money for Casa Hogar Sion—an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico and has appeared in many TV commercials for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital of whom she is a big supporter.

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She made a guest appearance on Oprah’s Big Give show to support the cause and donated money to help. Aniston hosted September 2008’s Stand Up to Cancer show. In the “It Can’t Wait” campaign to free Burma, Aniston directed and starred in a video.

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On April 14, 2007, Aniston received GLAAD’s Vanguard Award for her contributions to increased visibility and understanding of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

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