Jennifer Aniston's Life
Background Jennifer Joanna Aniston was born on February 11, 1969, in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California. She is an American actress, film director, and producer. Her first television series was Molloy in 1990, but her film career began in the horror film Leprechaun in 1993. She gained worldwide recognition in the 1990s for describing Rachel Green on the television show Friends from 1994 to 2004, a role which earned her an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2012, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Additionally, Men's Health magazine voted Aniston as the "Sexiest Woman of All Time".
Early Life Part 1 Jennifer Aniston parents were , two well known actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Her father is Greek and a native of Crete, while her mother was born in New York City. One of her great-grandfathers was an Italian immigrant, and her mother's other ancestry is Scottish, Irish, and a small amount of Greek. Jennifer has two half-brothers, John Melick, her older half-brother, Alex Aniston. Jennifer godfather was actor Telly Savalas , one of her father's best friends.
Early Life Part 2 As a child, Jennifer lived in Greece for a year with her family, they then moved to Eddystone, Pennsylvania, then to New York. When Jennifer was six, she began attending the Rudolf Steiner School, Waldorf educational school that applied the Rudolf Steiner philosophy. During that time, Jennifer's father and mother got divorced when she was about nine years old. After Jennifer discovered acting at the age of eleven while attending Rudolf Steiner. Jennifer enrolled and graduated at the Manhattan's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High, School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she joined the school's drama society.
Career Beginnings
Jennifer worked on Broadway productions such as For Dear Life and Dancing on Checker's Grave. In order to support herself Jennifer worked in several part-time jobs, which included working as a telemarketer, waitress, and bike messenger. In 1989, Jennifer appeared on The Howard Stern Show, as a spokesmodel for Nutrisystem. Jennifer was cast in her first television role in 1990, starring as a regular on the short-lived series Molloy. She then co-starred in Ferris Bueller, a television adaptation of the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and like Molloy also quickly canceled. Jennifer then appeared in two more failed television comedy series, The Edge and Muddling Through. Other roles included the 1993 horror film Leprechaun, the TV movie Camp Cucamonga, and guest roles on Quantum Leap, Herman's Head, and Burke's Law.
Television breakthrough and rising film career 1 The head of NBC entertainment encouraged Jennifer to continue acting, and a few months later helped cast her for Friends. The producers of the show originally wanted Jennifer to audition for the role of Monica Geller, but Courteney Cox was considered to be better suited to the role. Jennifer was cast as Rachel Green. She played the character of Rachel from 1994 until the show ended in 2004. The program was successful and Jennifer, along with her co-stars, gained world-wide reputation among television viewers. Jennifer received a salary of $1 million per episode for the last two seasons of Friends, as well as five Emmy nominations including a win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. According to the Guinness World Book of Records in 2005, Jennifer became the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $1 million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.
Television breakthrough and rising film career 2 Following a four-year hiatus from cinema, Jennifer returned to film work in 1996, when she performed in the ensemble cast of the independent films Dream for an Insomniac, and She's the One. Jennifer's first starring vehicle was the film Picture Perfect in 1997, in which she starred opposite Kevin Bacon and Jay Mohr. While the film received mixed reviews, Jennifer's performance was more warmly received, with many critics suggesting that she had screen presence.
Television breakthrough and rising film career 3 In 1999, she starred in the cult film Office Space for director Mike Judge. She gained critical acclaim for her performances in The Object of My Affection in 1998, a comedy-drama about a woman who falls for a gay man (played by Paul Rudd), and in the low-budget 2002 film The Good Girl, playing an unglamorous 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.
2003–09: Film career boom Part 1 Jennifer played in 2004 the film Along Came Poly opposite Ben Stiller. In late 2005, Jennifer appeared in two major studio films, Derailed and Rumor Has It‌.In 2006, Jennifer appeared in the low-budget drama Friends with Money, which was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival and received a limited release. Jennifer's next film, The Break-Up, which was released on June 2, grossed approximately $39.17 million during its opening weekend, despite lukewarm reviews. In 2006, Aniston directed a hospital emergency room-set short film called Room 10, starring Robin Wright Penn and Kris Kristofferson as part of Glamour's Reel Moments film series. Jennifer noted that she was inspired to direct by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who also directed a short film in 2006.
2003–09: Film career boom Part 2 On December 25, 2008, Marley & Me, in which Jennifer starred Owen Wilson, was released. It earned a total of $51.7 million over the four-day weekend and placed #1 at the box office, a position it maintained for two weeks. The total worldwide gross was $242,717,113.
Her next film in wide release, He's Just Not That Into You, where she starred opposite Ben Affleck, opened in February 2009. The movie made $178,390,243 globally and ranked at #1 at the United States box office for its opening weekend. On July 16, 2009, Jennifer received an Emmy nomination in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on 30 Rock.
2010–present: Enduring film success In March 2010, Jennifer appeared in The Bounty Hunter, which co-starred Gerard Butler. While the film received scathing reviews from critics, it was a success, garnering over $130 million worldwide.
By June 20, 2010, Jennifer's movies had made more than $1 billion in the United States and over $1.7 billion worldwide. The movie Just Go with It, with Adam Sandler, was released on Valentine's Day weekend in 2011. The story is about a plastic surgeon, played by Sandler, who asks his office manager, played by Aniston, to pose as his wife, to prove his honesty to his much younger girlfriend, played by Brooklyn Decker.
2011–present: Enduring film success In 2011, Jennifer played in the comedy movie Horrible Bosses. The film focuses on a trio of employees who plot to murder their titular tyrannical supervisors. Aniston played one of the bosses, a sexually aggressive dentist who harasses Charlie Day's character. In 2012, Aniston appeared in Wanderlust with Paul Rudd. The movie was about a married couple who join a commune after losing their money and deciding modern life is not for them. Jennifer played with Jason Sudeikis the movie We're the Millers, filmed in summer 2012 in Wilmington, North Carolina and in the state of New Mexico. The film, a comedy about a drug dealer with a fake family, was released on August 7, 2013, receiving mixed reviews from critics. We're the Millers received $269 million against a budget of $37 million.
Other Work Aniston has appeared in various commercials and music videos throughout her career. In 1996, she was in Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers music video for "Walls". In 2001, Aniston was in Melissa Etheridge's music video for "I Want To Be In Love". Aniston worked for over a year on a new perfume, which was released on July 21, 2010, at Harrods in London. Original plans called for the perfume to be named Lolavie by Jennifer Aniston, but to avoid confusion with a similarly named perfume, the name was changed to simply Jennifer Aniston. In an interview following the launch, Aniston said that she would also like to create a fragrance for men.
Philanthropy Jennifer is a supporter of a non-profit organization that helps raise money for Casa Hogar Sion, in Tijuana, Mexico. She has appeared in many TV commercials for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, which she supports. She also hosted September 2008's Stand Up to Cancer show. In the "It Can't Wait" campaign to free Burma, Jennifer directed and starred in a video. Jennifer donated $500,000 to Doctors Without Borders, Haitian health care provider Partners in Health and AmeriCares. In 2013, she was named the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) ambassador for the Saks Fifth Avenue Key To The Cure campaign, which raises funds for the EIF Women's Cancer Research Fund to support research into the detection, treatment, and cures for women's cancers.
Personal life Part 1: Jennifer has previously dated musician Adam Duritz, and was engaged to the actor Tate Donovan. Her high-profile relationship was with the actor Brad Pitt. She married Brad on July 29, 2000. For a few years, their marriage was considered the rare Hollywood success. But on January 7, 2005 they announced their separation. A divorce was finalized on October 2, 2005. During this period there was intense speculation in the media that Pitt had been unfaithful to Aniston with his Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star, Angelina Jolie.
Personal life Part 2 : In August 2006, Jennifer was engaged to Vince Vaughn. By October 2006, the couple had broken up. In April 2008, it was reported that singer John Mayer and Aniston were an item. They broke up in August 2008 but got back together in October. In March 2009, they had broken up for the second time. Aniston has been having a relationship with actor Justin Theroux since May 2011. In January 2012, Aniston and Theroux purchased a home in Los Angeles's Bel-Air neighborhood for roughly $22 million. On August 12, 2012, Aniston and Theroux announced their engagement.