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| Born | Courteney Bass Cox |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) |
| Spouse | David 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
- Down Twisted (1987)
- Masters of the Universe (1987)
- Cocoon: The Return (1988)
- Mr. Destiny (1990)
- Blue Desert (1991)
- Shaking the Tree (1992)
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
- Scream (1996)
- Commandments (1997)
- Scream 2 (1997)
- The Runner (1999)
- Scream 3 (2000)
- 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
- The Shrink Is In (2001)
- Get Well Soon (2001)
- Alien Love Triangle (2002)
- November (2004)
- The Longest Yard (2005)
- Barnyard (2006) (voice)
- Zoom (2006)
Upcoming:
- The Tripper (2007)
Television work
- As the World Turns (cast member in 1984)
- Code Name: Foxfire (1985)
- Misfits of Science (1985-1986)
- Murder, She Wrote (guest star: "Death Stalks the Big Top" Parts 1&2 (1986))
- Sylvan in Paradise (1986)
- If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987)
- Family Ties (cast member from 1987-1989)
- Till We Meet Again (1989)
- Seinfeld (guest star on March 17, 1994)
- Friends (cast member from 1994-2004)
- Dirt (2007-present)
Footnotes
- "EW.com". Workplace Romance - Courteney Cox.
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External links
- Courteney Cox at IMDb
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- Combustible Celluloid interview (April 26, 2005)
- Mr. Showbiz interview (February, 2001)
- Courteney Cox at Tv.com
- Dr. Drew interview (2000)
- collection of interviews (1995-1999)
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