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Biography

Courteney Bass Cox was born on June 15, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Courteney is the fourth child of Richard and Courteney Cox. She has one brother, two sisters, and nine half-siblings. Courteney's parents divorced when she was ten. She stayed with her mother who married businessman Hunter Copeland in 1976. Her father, a building contractor, moved to Florida where he remarried in 1975.

After graduating from Mountain Brook High School in Birmingham (1982) she began to study architecture/interior decoration at Mount Vernon College in Washington.
Courteney went to New York in her summer holidays and was subsequently signed by the Ford modeling agency. After some shoots for magazines such as Teen Beat and Young Miss, and for romance-novel covers she started working in television commercials for Maybelline, Noxzema and the New York Telephone Company, among other sponsors.

Courteney made her acting debut in 1984 on the daytime soap "As the World Turns", and later that same year, she was cast by Brian de Palma in Bruce Springsteen's music video "Dancing in the Dark". After the video (which no doubt opened doors for her future career), Courteney hosted a music show called "This Week's Music".

Her first well known work as an actress was done in 1987 when she was cast as the bright, perky girlfriend of Michael J. Fox on "Family Ties".
Following the series, she did several feature films which had disappointing box office performance.
Courteney had her first success as a movie actress when she appeared in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" alongside Jim Carrey.
Her stage work includes "King of Hearts" at the Tiffany Theatre in L.A, (1989).

Courteney's final break-through to a stardom was achieved in 1994 with the hit tv-series "Friends" in which she play "Monica Geller". The show's producers originally envisioned her in the role of Rachel but Courteney convinced them to give her the other role.

Her biggest success on the big screen so far was the movie "Scream" (1996) which made more than $100 million in the US. After the low budget movie "Commandments" (release May '97) she continued the success with the sequel of Scream (Scream 2"). It was released December 12, 1997 and made almost $40 million in its opening weekend.

Since summer 1998 Courteney got engaged to David Arquette whom she met during the shooting of Scream. They married on June 12, 1999.

Filmography

Alien Love Triangle (2002) .... Alice
Scream: The E! True Hollywood Story (2002) (TV) .... Herself/Gale Weathers
NBC 75th Anniversary Celebration (2002) (TV) .... Herself
NBC 75th Anniversary Special (2002) (TV) .... Herself
Get Well Soon (2001)
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) .... Cybil Waingrow
Friends: The Stuff You've Never Seen (2001) (TV) .... Herself/Monica Geller
Shrink Is In, The (2000) .... Samantha
Scream 3 (2000) (as Courteney Cox Arquette) .... Gale Weathers

51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, The (1999) (TV) .... Monica Geller
Runner, The (1999) .... Karina
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler (1999) (TV) .... Herself
1998 MTV Movie Awards (1998) (TV) .... Presenter
Commandments (1997) .... Rachel Luce
Scream 2 (1997) .... Gale Weathers
Scream (1996) .... Gale Weathers
1995 MTV Movie Awards (1995) (TV) .... Host
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (1995) (TV) .... Emmy O'Connor
... aka Feel for Murder, A (1995) (TV)
... aka Sketch Artist II (1995) (TV)
"Friends" (1994) TV Series (also as: Courteney Cox Arquette) .... Monica Geller-Bing
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) .... Melissa Robinson
"Trouble with Larry, The" (1993) TV Series .... Gabriella Easden
Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them, The (1992) .... Carrie Davenport
Battling for Baby (1992) (TV) .... Katherine
Blue Desert (1991) .... Lisa Roberts
... aka Silent Victim (1991) (UK)
Shaking the Tree (1990) .... Kathleen
Mr. Destiny (1990) .... Jewel Jagger
Curiosity Kills (1990) (TV) .... Gwen

Bruce Springsteen: Video Anthology 1978-1988 (1989) (V) .... Bruce´s fan in the clip 'Dancing In The Dark'
"Till We Meet Again" (1989) (mini) TV Series .... Marie-Frederique 'Freddy' de Lancel
... aka "Judith Krantz's 'Till We Meet Again'" (1989) (mini) (USA: complete title)
Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer (1989) (TV) .... Jacquie Kimberly
I'll Be Home for Christmas (1988) (TV)
Cocoon: The Return (1988) .... Sara, St. Petersburg Oceanographic Inst.
Down Twisted (1987) .... Tarah
If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987) (TV) .... Hana Wyshocki
Masters of the Universe (1987) .... Julie Winston
"Family Ties" (1982) TV Series .... Lauren Miller (1987-1989)
Code Name: Foxfire (1985) (TV)
... aka Slay It Again, Sam (1985) (TV)
"Misfits of Science" (1985) TV Series .... Gloria Dinallo
Misfits of Science (1985) (TV) .... Gloria Dinallo
"As the World Turns" (1956) TV Series .... Bunny (1984)