From IMDB.com
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. Courteney was the archetypal Daddy's
girl, and therefore was understandably devastated when,
in 1974 her parents divorced, and her father moved to
Florida.
She became a rebellious teen, and did not make things
easy for her mother, and new step-father, New York businessman
Hunter Copeland. Now, she is great friends with both.
She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was
a cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer.
In her final year, she received her first taste of
modelling. She appeared in an advert for the store,
Parisians. Upon graduation, she left Alabama to study
architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon College.
After one year she dropped out to a pursue a modelling
career in New York, after being signed by the prestigious
Ford Modelling Agency. She appeared on the covers of
teen magazines such as Tiger Beat and Little Miss, plus
numerous romance novels. She then moved on to commercials
for Maybeline, Noxema, New York Telephone Company and
Tampax.
While modelling she attended acting classes, as her
real dream and ambition was to be an actress. In 1984
she landed herself a small part in one episode of _"As
The World Turns" (1956)_ as a young debutante named
Bunny.
Her first big break however, was being cast by Brian
De Palma in the infamous Bruce Springsteen video 'Dancing
in The Dark'. In 1985 she moved to LA to star alongside
Dean Paul Martin in _"Misfits of Science"(1985)_
.
It was a flop, but a few years later she was chosen
out of thousands of hopefuls to play Michael J. Fox's
girlfriend, psychology major Lauren Miller in "Family
Ties" (1982). In 1989 Family Ties ended, and Cox
went through a lean spell in her career, featuring in
unmemorable movies such as Mr. Destiny (1990) with Michael
Caine.
Fortunes changed dramatically for Cox, when in 1994,
she starred alongside Jim Carrey in the unexpected hit
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), and a year later
she was cast as Monica Geller on the hugely successful
sitcom "Friends" (1994).
It was this part that turned her into an international
superstar and led to an American Comedy Award nomination.
In 1996 Cox starred in Wes Craven's horror/comedy Scream
(1996). This movie grossed over $100 million at the
box office, and won Cox rave reviews for her standout
performance as the wickedly bitchy and smug TV reporter
Gale Weathers.
She went on to play this character twice more, as Scream
became The Scream Trilogy. Not only did her involvement
in this movie lead to critical acclaim, but it also
led to her meeting actor husband David Arquette. He
played her on screen love interest Dewey, and life imitated
art as the two fell in love for real.
Their wedding took place in San Francisco, at the historic
Grace Cathedral atop Nob Hill, on June 12th, 1999. Joined
by 200 guests, including Cox's film star friends Liam
Neeson and Kevin Spacey, the happy couple finally became
Mr and Mrs Arquette.
From Biography.com
Actress. Born June 15, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama.
She studied architecture for a year at Mount Vernon
College, became a model in New York City, then took
a range of parts in films and television (most notably
Family Ties), and became well known through her role
as Monica Geller in the acclaimed television series
Friends (1994-- ). Roles in feature films began with
Down Twisted (1986), and include Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
(1994), Scream (1996) , and Commandments (1997).
From AllMovieGuide.com
At age 21, Alabama-born actress Courteney Cox
made her series TV debut as a teen-aged juvenile delinquent
with a genius IQ in the sci-fi series Misfits of Science.
Both the series and Cox's role were soon forgotten,
but she enjoyed a longer run starting in 1986 as Lauren
Miller, Alex Keaton's (Michael J. Fox) girlfriend, on
the popular sitcom Family Ties. Cox replaced Tracy Pollan,
who left the series but married Fox in real life; in
Cox's own real life she became the longtime companion
of another Keaton, this one an actor who first name
is Michael. After appearing in several films, notably
the Jim Carrey vehicle Ace Ventura Pet Detective (94),
Cox was cast as New York career woman/neatness freak
Monica Geller on the instant-hit 1994 TV comedy Friends.
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At
age 21,Alabama-born actress Courteney Cox made her series
TV debut as a teen-aged juvenile delinquent with a genius
IQ in the sci-fi series Misfits of Science. Both the series
and Cox's role were soon forgotten, but she enjoyed a
longer run starting in 1986 as Lauren Miller, Alex Keaton's
(Michael J. Fox) girlfriend, on the popular sitcom Family
Ties. Cox replaced Tracy Pollan, who left the series but
married Fox in real life; in Cox's own real life she became
the longtime companion of another Keaton, this one an
actor who first name is Michael. After appearing in several
films, notably the Jim Carrey vehicle Ace Ventura Pet
Detective (94), Cox was cast as New York career woman/neatness
freak Monica Geller on the instant-hit 1994 TV comedy
Friends.