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Courteney Cox was born on June 15th, 1964 into
an affluent Southern family. Her father Richard L Cox (1930-2001) was a
business man married to her mother Courteney. She was the baby of the
family with two older sisters (Virginia and Dottie) and an older brother
Richard Jnr. She was raised in an exclusive society town, Mountain Brook,
Alabama.
Cox first came to prominence in the 1984
music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" (in
which she was the pulled-on-stage-girl who danced onstage with Springsteen
for 26 seconds). Cox is also notable for being the first person to use the
word "period" on U.S. television in its physiological sense, in
a 1985 advertising campaign for Tampax brand tampons. Her early film roles
include Masters of the Universe (1987) and Cocoon: The Return (1988).
After appearing in the Jim Carrey comedy Ace
Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Cox found fame playing Monica Geller on the
hit TV series Friends (1994-2004). This was the role for which she would
become most famous. During her time on Friends, Cox appeared in the highly
successful and high-profile Hollywood films Scream (1996), Scream 2
(1997), and Scream 3 (2000). It is whilst filming the first of this
trilogy that she would meet her husband David Arquette.
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