Jennifer Aniston, who was born on February 11th, 1969, is a well-known American actress, film director, and producer. She attained global recognition in the 1990s for her role as Rachel Green in the TV show Friends, which earned her several awards such as an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Apart from this, Aniston has also had a successful career in Hollywood, with films such as She’s the One, Office Space, The Good Girl, Bruce Almighty, The Break-Up, Marley Me, Just Go with It, and Horrible Bosses. She even received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in February 2012.
Born in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, Aniston is the daughter of actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Her father is Greek, while her mother has Scottish, Irish, and a small amount of Greek ancestry. Aniston has two half-brothers – John Melick and Alex Aniston. As a child, she lived in Greece for a year with her family before moving to New York City. In New York, Aniston attended the Rudolf Steiner School and later graduated from Manhattan’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music Art and Performing Arts. To support herself, Aniston worked several part-time jobs, including being a telemarketer, waitress, and bike messenger.
Aniston has also made several guest appearances on television shows, including Dirt, 30 Rock, and Cougar Town. She received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in 30 Rock. Aniston’s movies have grossed more than $1 billion in the United States and over $1.7 billion worldwide, with Just Go with It and Horrible Bosses being some of her recent successful films. In Just Go with It, Aniston plays the role of a plastic surgeon’s office manager who poses as his wife. In Horrible Bosses, she plays a sexually aggressive dentist who harasses one of the employees.
Jennifer Aniston co-starred with Paul Rudd in the 2012 movie Wanderlust, which was about a married couple who join a commune after losing their money and deciding modern life is not for them. The script was written by Rudd, Ken Marino, and David Wain and directed by Wain, and produced by Judd Apatow. Aniston will star alongside Jason Sudeikis in We’re the Millers, a comedy about a drug dealer with a fake family, expected to start filming in the summer of 2012 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Aniston has been consistently included on Forbes’ Celebrity 100 list since 2001, topping the list in 2003. In 2007, Forbes estimated her net worth to be around $110 million. Aniston has also been recognized as one of the most beautiful and best-dressed women by People and GQ magazines. Although she disliked her hairstyle during the first two years of Friends, “The Rachel” remains popular among women. In 2011, two Hollywood plastic surgeons carried out a survey among their patients to determine the most sought-after body parts of the rich and famous, and Aniston was voted in the top three for the most sought-after body shape, alongside Gisele Bündchen and Penélope Cruz.