Courteney Cox Biography and Profile

Biography

Nama : Courteney Cox
Birth Name : Courteney Bass Cox
Birth Date : 06/15/1964
Birth Place : Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Height : 5' 5"
Sex : F
Nationality : American
Occupation : Actress
Father : Richard Lewis Cox
Mother : Courteney Copeland
Spouse : David Arquette (actor, since June 12, 1999)
Relation : Ian Copeland (manager), Adam Duritz (singer), Michael Keaton (actor, 1989-1995)
Claim Fame : As Monica Geller on TV series "Friends" (1994 - 2004)

Courteney Cox Arquette (born June 15, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA) is an American actress. (While she has occasionally used her full married name professionally, she continues to be generally known simply as "Courteney Cox".) She was born into an affluent Southern family and was raised in Mountain Brook, Alabama. She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was a cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer. Upon graduation, Cox went to study architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon College. She dropped out after one year to a pursue a modelling career after being signed by the Ford Modelling Agency in New York. While modelling, she also took acting classes.

After coming to prominence in the Bruce Springsteen music video Dancing in the Dark (1984), she appeared in several movies including Masters of the Universe (1988), Cocoon: The Return (1988) and Blue Desert (1991).

Cox had a starring role in the short-lived TV series, Misfits of Science (1985) and later had a recurring role (1987 - 1989) on the television series Family Ties (1982 - 1989).

Cox is best known for playing Monica Geller Bing on the hit TV series Friends (1994 - 2004). Cox has also appeared in many Hollywood films including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1998), Scream 3 (2000) and 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001). She met actor David Arquette on the set of Scream and the couple married on June 12, 1999. In June 2004 she gave birth to a baby girl, Coco Arquette.