1. Courteney Bass Cox was born on June 15,1964 and is an American actress and filmmaker.
40 Facts About Courteney Cox
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Courteney Cox rose to international prominence by playing Monica Geller in the NBC sitcom Friends and Gale Weathers in the horror film franchise Scream.
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Courteney Cox's accolades include a Screen Actors Guild Award, nominations for two Emmy Awards a Golden Globe Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Courteney Cox owned the production company Coquette Productions, which she founded with her then-husband, David Arquette.
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Courteney Cox has directed the television drama film TalhotBlond, the black comedy drama film Just Before I Go, and executive produced the game show Celebrity Name Game.
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Courteney Cox was born June 15,1964, in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised there.
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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 1993, Courteney Cox co-starred in the short-lived CBS sitcom The Trouble with Larry, alongside Bronson Pinchot and Perry King.
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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 ten 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 ex-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 Daisy the Cow 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 participated in the Celebrity Escape Room special to raise $150,000 for Red Nose Day.
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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 again reprised her role as Gale Weathers for the sixth Scream film, which she executive produced.
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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.
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In 2020, Courteney Cox said that she did not remember much about the episode plots of Friends and that she had begun binge-watching the show.