36 Facts About Courteney Cox

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Courteney Bass Cox is an American actress and filmmaker.

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Courteney Cox gained international recognition for her starring role as Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends, for which she received seven Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, of which she won one.

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Courteney Cox owns the production company Coquette Productions, which was created by Cox and her then-husband David Arquette.

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Courteney Cox worked as a director on her sitcom Cougar Town, the television drama film TalhotBlond, and the black comedy drama film Just Before I Go.

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Courteney Cox is a daughter of businessman Richard Lewis Cox and Courteney Copeland.

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Courteney Cox has two older sisters, Virginia and Dorothy, and an older brother, Richard Jr.

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Courteney Cox's parents divorced in 1974 and her mother then married businessman Hunter Copeland.

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Courteney Cox worked at video game publisher Bethesda Softworks briefly in the 1980s.

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Courteney Cox was chosen from a casting call by director Brian De Palma to appear in the 1984 music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark", as the young woman pulled onstage at the St Paul Civic Center to dance with Springsteen.

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Courteney Cox later had a recurring role as Lauren Miller, the girlfriend of Michael J Fox's character Alex P Keaton in the NBC comedy series Family Ties.

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Courteney Cox played Jewel Jagger, the tough-as-nails assistant of Larry Burrows, in Mr Destiny.

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In 1994, Courteney Cox was asked to audition for the starring role of Rachel Green on a new sitcom, Friends; she was cast as Monica Geller instead.

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At first, the most famous cast member of the new show, Courteney Cox joined Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer for what became her most famous role, lasting for 10 seasons until 2004.

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Courteney Cox received further recognition and critical acclaim for her starring role as reporter Gale Weathers in the high-profile slasher horror film Scream, and its sequels Scream 2 and Scream 3.

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Courteney Cox's character was well known for her "snappy remarks and being brilliantly bossy".

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Courteney Cox met her future husband, David Arquette, who played her on-screen love interest, Dwight "Dewey" Riley, while filming the first Scream film.

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Courteney Cox hosted an episode of the variety sketch series Saturday Night Live in July 1995, and appeared in the crime thriller film The Runner.

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Courteney Cox had a cameo appearance in the big-budget remake The Longest Yard as Lena, the girlfriend of Paul Crewe, and co-starred with Tim Allen in the critically derided Zoom.

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Courteney Cox voiced the role of Daisy in the animated film Barnyard.

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Courteney Cox starred as Lucy Spiller, a cynical tabloid editor, in the FX television drama series Dirt, which premiered in 2007.

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In July 2008, Entertainment Weekly announced that Courteney Cox signed on to star in a three-episode arc for the television medical comedy series Scrubs.

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Courteney Cox went to executive produce the short drama film The Butler's in Love, directed by David Arquette.

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Courteney Cox guest-starred in a three-episode story arc on former Friends co-star Lisa Kudrow's web comedy series Web Therapy.

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Courteney Cox directed two episodes of the series' fifteen episodes that season.

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Courteney Cox reprised her role as Gale Weathers from the Scream trilogy for the sequel Scream 4.

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Courteney Cox made her directorial debut and had a cameo appearance in a Lifetime television drama film TalhotBlond, which premiered on the network on June 23,2012.

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In 2014, Courteney Cox directed and produced the black comedy film Just Before I Go, starring Seann William Scott and Elisha Cuthbert.

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In 2016, Courteney Cox starred in the independent drama film Mothers and Daughters, alongside Susan Sarandon, Mira Sorvino, and Sharon Stone.

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In 2019, she created and executive produced the Facebook Watch documentary series 9 Months with Courteney Cox, which focuses on "people from across the country of various race, religion, and class as they self-document their 9-month journey of pregnancy".

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Courteney Cox reunited with her Friends co-stars for a reunion special titled Friends: The Reunion, which was released on May 27,2021, on HBO Max.

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Courteney Cox reprised her role as Gale Weathers for the fifth Scream film, which was directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.

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Courteney Cox signed on to star alongside Greg Kinnear in the Starz horror comedy series Shining Vale, from creators Sharon Horgan and Jeff Astrof.

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Courteney Cox reprised her role as Gale Weathers for the sixth Scream film, which was directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.

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Courteney Cox married her Scream co-star David Arquette on June 12,1999, at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

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Courteney Cox revealed that she suffered from postpartum depression six months after the birth of her child.

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Courteney Cox began dating Snow Patrol band member Johnny McDaid in late 2013.