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  People - 25 Most Intriguing People 2002


When she was sent the script for the indie drama The Good Girl, which called for a sullen, stringy-haired, very un-Rachel-like store clerk, the Friends star was certain a mistake had been made. "Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!"

Jennifer Aniston told her agent. As it turned out, Hollywood's glowing star did dreary exceptionally well.

So well that talk of an Oscar nod was included in her many rave reviews. But Aniston, 33, did more than take her biggest dramatic leap this year; she also did her best comedic work yet. In September she took home a lead-actress Emmy to keep the mantel warm. It was a crowning achievement for an actress once so unsure of her skills that she confesses, "There was a part of me that felt like, 'If I'm a waitress for the rest of my life, then I'll be a waitress.' " Who knew she'd become the special of the day?

"What makes her extraordinary is that she can do emotional stuff in a funny way, and funny stuff in a way that feels so moving," says Friends executive producer David Crane. Adds costar Matthew Perry: "I don't know of anything she's not capable of."

As Friends winds down, Aniston is eagerly testing more waters. Up next: playing opposite Jim Carrey in this spring's Bruce Almighty. "I've always known she was amazing," says her husband of two years, Brad Pitt, 39, with whom she has just moved into a $13.5 million 1930s mansion in Beverly Hills.

"I don't think anything blossomed in her this year that wasn't there already. It just seems like the rest of the world is waking up to what has been there all along."



 

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