Jennifer Aniston
American actress (born 1969) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jennifer Aniston (born February 11, 1969)[2] an American actress and cultural icon of the 1990s who rose to international fame for playing the spoiled girl next door, Rachel Green on the classic sitcom Friends (1994-2004). One of the highest paid television actresses in Hollywood, She has won two Screen Actor Guild Awards, a Primetime Emmy and a Golden Globe award. Her iconic hairstyle "the Rachel haircut", character development made her the breakout star of Friends.**
Romantic Comedies (2004-2012)**
After the conclusion of Friends, Aniston transitioned into a film career, starring in classic romantic comedies throughout the mid 2000s , including movies like Office Space, The Break-Up, He's Just Not That Into You, Marley and Me, Just Go With It and Horrible Bosses (2011). She also secured an Emmy nomination as a guest actress on 30 Rock in 2009.
**Resurgence in Career and Permanent Return to Television (2016-Present)**
In the late 2010s, Jennifer Aniston re-established herself as an A-list actress in television by executively producing acclaimed shows such as Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere starring Kerry Washington and Apple TV+'s The Morning Show alongside Reese Witherspoon and Billy Crudup. In The Morning Show, she played the lead role of a veteran news anchor, Alex Levy, who is trying to navigate the changing news media landscape after a public scandal and her relationship with her co-anchor. For her work, she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Female Actor in a Drama Series (2020) and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She also earned nominations for her work as an executive producer. The Morning Show has been renewed for a fourth and final season.
Her work in television made Forbes rank her as the 10th highest paid television actress in Hollywood alongside Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh, and Julia Louis Drefyus.
In 2019, she was awarded the SAG-AFTRA Patron award for her philanthropic work. Her best friend Reese Witherspoon and Friends co-stars paid tribute to her.
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Early life
Jennifer Aniston was born on February 11, 1969,[2] in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California.[3] She is the daughter of John Aniston and Nancy Dow.[3] Her father is Greek and a native of Crete, while her mother was born in New York City. Dow died of a stroke in May 2016. One of her maternal great-grandfathers was an Italian immigrant,[4] and her mother's other ancestry is Scottish, Irish, and a small amount of Greek.[5] Aniston has two half-brothers, John Melick, her maternal older half-brother, and Alex Aniston, her younger paternal half-brother.[3] Aniston's godfather was actor Telly Savalas, one of her father's best friends.[3]
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Personal life
She was married to Brad Pitt from 2000 until they divorced in 2005.[1] They acted together in the episode "The One with the Rumor" on Friends. She began a relationship with Justin Theroux in 2011. The couple married in 2015 in Bel Air, Los Angeles.
On February 15, 2018, Aniston and Theroux announced that they were separating after two years of marriage and seven years as a couple.[6]
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