Jennifer Aniston Bio

After floundering on short-lived TV shows and being stalked on screen by a crazed Leprechaun, Jennifer Aniston has become our best ‘Friend.’ The actress, born on February 11, 1969, in Sherman Oaks, California, is the daughter of soap star John Aniston. She caught the acting bug at a young age and at the age of 20 landed her first role on the TV series Molloy. It wasn’t until 1994, when Jennifer signed on to play rich girl turned barista 'Rachel Green' on a little sitcom called Friends that everyone know her name. Her hairstyle, ‘The Rachel,’ was the biggest thing since Farrah Fawcett’s feathered ‘do and her performance on the show led to an Emmy Award in 2002. Jennifer’s five-year marriage to Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt was splashed all over the headlines and her subsequent divorce and relationships with Vince Vaughn and John Mayer were also widely covered in the media. Jennifer, unlike some of her other Friends co-stars, successfully made the leap to the big screen starring alongside Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty and Ben Stiller in Along Came Polly. Jennifer’s fans don’t want this friendship to ever end.

Here are some more fun facts:

• Aniston was normally chosen to play Monica in Friends, but the producers decided that she was better suited for the role of Rachel. The part of Monica went to Courtney Cox.

• She had two nose surgeries to correct her deviated septum, one in 1994 and one in 2007.

• She dislikes Chinese, Indian, and Greek food (coincidently, she is half-Greek).