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Cox was raised in an exclusive society town, ]. She attended ], where she was a ], ] player and ]. Upon graduation, Cox went to study ] and ] at ]. She dropped out after one year to pursue a ] career, after being signed by the ] in ]. While modeling, she also took acting classes, and acquired a Northern accent. Cox was raised in an exclusive society town, ]. She attended ], where she was a ], ] player and ]. Upon graduation, Cox went to study ] and ] at ]. She dropped out after one year to pursue a ] career, after being signed by the ] in ]. While modeling, she also took acting classes, and acquired a Northern accent.


===Career===
Cox first came to prominence in the 1984 ] for ]'s "]" (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 "]" on U.S. ] in its physiological sense, in a 1985 advertising campaign for ] brand tampons.<ref>{{cite web | title=IMDB.com | work=Courteney Cox - Biography | url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001073/bio | accessmonthday=March 2 | accessyear=2007}}</ref> Her early film roles include '']'' (]) and '']'' (]). Cox's early television work include a starring role in the short-lived television series '']'' (]), and later a recurring role (1987 - 1989) on the ] '']'' as the last girlfriend of ] (]). Cox also appeared as Meryl, ]'s girlfriend/pretend wife on the hit TV ] '']'' in ].


After appearing in the ] comedy '']'' (]), Cox found fame playing ] on the hit TV series '']'' (1994-2004). This was the role for which she would become most famous. The six principal cast members, including Cox, became household names due to the mass popularity and success of the show. However, she was the only principal member of the show's cast not to be nominated for an ].

During her time on Friends, Cox appeared in the highly successful and high-profile ] films '']'' (]), '']'' (]), and '']'' (]). It is whilst filming the first of this ] that she would meet her husband ]. Although she starred in several other films during her time on '']'' none achieved the same level of success as the show. Such films include '']'', '']'' and ''The Shrink is In''. In late 2003, Cox produced the ] series ''Mix It Up''. The lifestyle show received low ratings and was not renewed for a second season.

After her ''Friends'' role, Cox was producer ]'s first choice to be offered a starring role as ] on '']''. But due to the actress's pregnancy, she was unavailable for the part, therefore, giving the role to ]. A couple of years later, Cox signed a deal with ] (formerly ]), to star in her own series.

Since '']'', Cox has primarily concentrated on her family but has starred in the ] '']'' (]), which had only a limited theatrical release, co-starred with ] in the critically derided '']'' and cameoed in the big budget remake of '']'', as the girlfriend of ]. She has recently supplied her voice for the animated film '']''.

As of 2007, Cox plays Lucy Spiller, a tabloid editor, in '']'', a ] drama for the ]. Cox and her husband, David Arquette, are the executive producers of the series.<ref>{{cite web | title=IMDB.com | work="Dirt" (2007) - Full cast and crew | url=http://imdb.com/title/tt0496275/fullcredits | accessmonthday=March 2 | accessyear=2007}}</ref>


===Personal life=== ===Personal life===

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Courteney Cox Arquette
BornCourteney Bass Cox
Height5 ft 5 in (165 cm)
SpouseDavid Arquette (1999-present) 1 Child

Courteney Bass Cox Arquette (born Courteney Bass Cox on June 15, 1964) is an American actress and former fashion model, best known for her role as Monica Geller in the long-running television series Friends. She now plays Lucy Spiller, an executive editor of a tabloid magazine, on the popular drama Dirt on FX Networks.

Biography

Early life

Cox was born in Birmingham, Alabama to an affluent Southern family: her late father, Richard L. Cox, was a businessman and her mother, also named Courteney (née Bass), was a housewife. Cox has two older sisters (Dottie Pickett and Virginia Cox), one older brother (Richard, Jr.) and nine half-brothers and half-sisters. Her parents divorced in 1974, and her father eventually wound up in Panama City, Florida where he would open a company called Cox Pools, while Cox grew up with her mother and her stepfather, New York businessman Hunter Copeland.

Cox was raised in an exclusive society town, 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 for Women. She dropped out after one year to pursue a modeling career, after being signed by the Ford modeling agency in New York City. While modeling, she also took acting classes, and acquired a Northern accent.


Personal life

Cox's previous relationships include the late Ian Copeland and a long term relationship with actor Michael Keaton. Cox also dated Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz, and appeared in their music video for song A Long December in 1997. (Duritz has also dated Cox's "Friends" co-star, Jennifer Aniston.)

She met actor David Arquette on the set of Scream; the couple married on June 12, 1999 in an Episcopalian ceremony held at the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA. Both Arquette and Cox had the sentence A deal's a deal inscribed on their wedding rings. While Cox has occasionally used her full married name, "Courteney Cox Arquette", professionally, she continues to be generally known simply as "Courteney Cox."

On June 13, 2004, she gave birth to their first child, daughter Coco Riley Arquette. The child was originally to be named after her mother as Courteney Cox Arquette, however her husband's family objected to this on the grounds that naming a child after a living relative goes against Jewish tradition. Coco is a nickname Cox's friends gave her mother when she was a child. Cox's close real life friend and "Friends" co-star, Jennifer Aniston, is the baby's godmother.

Filmography

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Footnotes

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  3. "Moono.com". Jennifer Aniston is Coco Arquette's godmother. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessmonthday= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

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