Jennifer Aniston was born on February 11, 1969, in Sherman Oaks, California. She began her formal acting training early, spending her high school years as a drama student at the New York High School of the Performing Arts. After her graduation in 1987, Jennifer appeared in off-Broadway productions, as well as the short-lived sitcoms The Edge and Molloy.

Aniston’s big break came in 1994, when she successfully landed the part of Rachael Green in the  Friends, which was originally called Friends Like These. The show would become one of the most successful sitcoms of all time. Friends was on the air for ten years, and each of the actors eventually commanded one million dollars per episode for their appearances.

Although Aniston is perhaps best known as Rachael Green, she has also appeared in many successful films such as The Good Girl, Office Space, and the hit comedy The Breakup. Her film career has showed no sign of slowing down. In 2006 she also appeared with the British actor, Clive Owen, in Derailed. She went on to produce and act in several films, including The Senator’s Wife.

Jennifer’s Friends co-stars are also her pals in real life. She is the godmother of Courteney Cox and David Arquette’s child. Cox acted alongside Aniston in Friends, as the obsessive Monica Geller. She was also good friends with Matthew Perry, another Friends co-star, and even offered to be his personal trainer in his publicized weight loss struggle.

Jennifer married movie star Brad Pitt in July of 2000, and the pair was quickly named one of Hollywood’s power couples. Pitt was a highly sought after actor whose hit movies included Fight Club and Ocean’s Eleven.