Jennifer Aniston
Born on February 11th 1969 in Sherman Oaks, California


Jennifer grew up around show business, her mother and father were both actors and so was her god father Telly Savalas. Jennifer attended a school where she was encouraged to learn about the arts and it was here where she not only developed and interest in drama and acting but also became a talented artist.


Jennifer then attended the Fame School in New York (formally known as the High School of Performing Arts). After graduation she appeared in Broadway production of 'For Dear Life' and 'Dancing on Checker's Grave'. After two years, Jennifer headed for Hollywood where she worked on several television shows that were not successful.

In 1994, Jennifer landed the role of Rachel Green in Friends a comedy series that was to become arguably the best comedy series ever. Rachel is a ditsy, spoiled waitress who has a passion for clothes and gossip. The character spawned a million hairstyles as women world wide tried to copy her look.

During filming for Friends, Jennifer also managed to make some films. She is a diverse actress and her parts have all been vastly different from Rachel. She made the film 'She's The One' during her weekends off from making Friends and went on to star in 'Til There Was You', 'Dreams For An Insomniac', 'Picture Perfect' and 'The Object Of My Affection'.

On July 29th 1999 Jennifer married Brad Pitt after months of will they won't they speculation? The ceremony was closely a guarded secret and was monitored heavily by security to prevent any press invading their privacy.





Courteney Cox Arquette
Born 15th June 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama

Courteney Cox was born into a large family and had a good Southern upbringing. Cox spent one year at Mount Vernon College in Washington D.C. studying architecture but decided it wasn't for her. Her next plan was to head for New York to become a model. Unfortunately at only 5'5" she was a little too short to get much work.


Instead of modelling, she ended up working for her stepfather's nephew, Ian Copeland, who was a music agent in New York. She started to date Ian who encouraged her to odel and to dabble in acting. Cox finally landed a contract with the Ford modelling agency. She felt like she was on the up and started voice coaching lessons to lose her Southern accent and acting classes to get her over stage fright.


Shoots for the covers of teen magazines led to commercials for Maybelline and Tampax and those led to small parts on television and finally for the big budget Bruce Springsteen Video that sent her on the road to fame.

Cox took on several roles in poor television programmes before landing the part of Lauren on Family Ties with Michael J Fox. During filming, Cox met and started to date Michael Keaton, a relation ship that lasted five and half years.


Several years and many parts in small films later, Cox got a part in the hit film 'Ace Ventura Pet Detective'. Soon after she landed the role of Monica Gellar in Friends.

Monica is the 'Neat Freak', she has ways of doing things and everything must be perfect at all times. She is a little over bearing and sometimes is a little too controlling. Deep down Monica is a hopeless romantic just waiting to find her ideal man.

Since Friends, Cox has starred in the Scream trilogy as a ruthless television reporter. During filming of the first Scream, Cox met and fell in love with David Arquette whom she married in June 1999.






Lisa Kudrow
Born July 30th 1963 in Encino, California

Lisa's father is a doctor, her brother a neurologist and her mother a travel agent. Lisa herself attended Vassar College and has a degree in Biology. Lisa had intended to become a medical researcher but when her brothers friend got a slot on Saturday Night Live, Lisa began to think about acting. Lisa promptly auditioned for the Groundlings, an improvisational comedy troupe from Los Angeles. After some acting lessons and a number of auditions, Lisa was in.


By 1989, Lisa started to audition for parts outside of the Groundlings. She made small appearances in a number of big comedy programmes before landing the part of Ursula, a dippy waitress on Mad About You. That was the part that got her noticed and she was encouraged to try for the part of Roz on Frasier. She didn't get this part but did get the part of Phoebe on Friends.


Friends and Mad About You are both NBC shows so the producers decided to make Ursula and Phoebe twins. Lisa there fore stars in both shows. She records friend through the week and when required she works on Mad About You on Friday afternoons.


Phoebe Buffay is a cookie, guitar playing massage therapist who brings quirkiness to the cast. She has very strong morals and likes to stick to them although sometimes she finds it quite difficult. She is very kind and even gave birth to triplets for her brother and his wife.


Lisa's fame has led to a number of parts in movies like 'Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion' and 'Analyse This'. When she is not acting, Lisa plays tennis and is wife to advertising executive Michael Stern and mother to Julian Murray.







Matthew Perry
Born 19th August 1969 in Williamstown, Massachusetts
Matthew basically had two choices of career path from a very young age. He had a passion for tennis and acting. He had always loved tennis and was ranked as the third best junior doubles champion in Canada but in seventh grade he caught the acting bug. Matthew played in 'The Life And Death Of Sneaky Fitch' in 1984 and decided he loved acting.

He finally gave up tennis after he lost badly in an important tournament, moved to Los Angeles and started making small appearances on sitcoms like 'Charles In Charge' and 'Growing Pains'. However it wasn't long before Matthew was discovered and landed a part playing next to River Phoenix in 'A Night In The Life Of Jimmy Reardon'.

Next rung on the career ladder was the lead part in the sitcoms 'Second Chance' and 'Boys Will Be Boys' both of which failed. Matthew was in need of some work by this point and took several one-episode arts on series like 'Highway To Heaven' and 'Beverly Hills 90210'.

After all these failed sitcoms and mediocre parts, Matthew decided to take some time out and write a good sitcom himself. He wrote a script called 'Maxwell's House' about a group of six, twenty something's who drink a lot of coffee and talk about jobs and relationships. Sounds pretty familiar and when Matthew plugged his script to NBC, it was turned down because they were already developing the rather similar 'Friends'. Lucky for Matthew, he was soon cast as Chandler.

Chandler is the sensible career man of the show, although his character is as sarcastic as they come and is constantly making jokes.

As we all know, Friends was an instant success and like other members of the cast, Matthew has been given the opportunity to act in some pretty big movies like 'Fools Rush In' and 'The Whole Nine Yards' with some pretty big actors.





David Schwimmer
Born 12th of November 1966 in New York City
David was educated first at Beverly Hill High where he realised his passion for acting. He very much saw himself as a man of the theatre and took parts in several productions during his time there.


David next headed for Northwestern University in Chicago where he planned to either become a doctor or a lawyer (following in the legal footsteps of his parents). It wasn't long before David realised he would far rather act than do anything else and went on to graduate in theatre and speech.


With his qualifications David co-founded Chicago's Looking Glass Theatre Company, which he remains passionate about. David's first appearance on television came in 1989 in the television movie 'A Deadly Silence' an experience he didn't enjoy.


Between plays David took parts in 'The Wonder Years', 'LA Law' and 'NYPD Blue' amongst other projects. By the time the Friends audition came along, David was well and truly fed up with sitcoms since he had been cast in the hugely unsuccessful 'Monty'. He was sceptical about the audition but went along anyway.


David got the part of Ross Gellar, a nerdy but loveable palaeontologist who seems to have no luck in relationships, not even with his pet monkey, Marcel. Audiences loved Ross all the same, perhaps relating to his sometimes child like behaviour.


David was now in the situation where he had become quite the sought after actor and during the first friends hiatus he had 30 movies scripts to choose from for his next acting job. David chose 'The Pallbearer' which also starred Gwyneth Paltrow before acting in 'Kissing A Fool' and 'Apt Pupil'.


However, David was concerned that he would always be cast in Ross type roles and when the offers next came around he decided to direct and take only a small part in his next movie 'Since You've Been Gone' which also starred some Looking Glass actors.





Matt Le Blanc
Born 25th of July 1967 in Newton, Massachusetts
At the age of eight Matt had decided he wanted to be a motorbike racer but his mother was dead against the idea and encouraged him to become a carpenter instead. In fact, before Matt became a star he sold his own furniture to earn a living.

A friend suggested he try modelling as a career so Matt moved to New York and by 1987 he was seen all over the world in television commercials. His best known was for Levi 501's but he has also worked for Heinz Ketchup, Coca Cola and Doritos.

In 1988 Matt began formal acting training and a year later he got the starring role in 'TV 101'. He moved to Los Angeles where he took parts in programmes like 'Top Of The Heap', 'Vinnie and Bobby' and the movie 'Anything To Survive'.

Since the success of Friends, Matt has had some great parts in movies like 'Lost In Space' and 'Ed' but is likely to remain best known for playing Joey Tribbiani in Friends. The hapless out of work actor who loves food and ladies always seems to miss auditions. Joey is a loyal friend and has become increasingly sensitive through the series.