Jennifer Aniston - The Picture Encyclopedia of Cultural Images

Jennifer Aniston - The Picture Encyclopedia of Cultural Images

Jennifer Aniston is an American actress most known for her role as Rachel Green in the sitcom Friends. She is also famous for her marriage to Bard Pitt.

Jennifer Aniston was born in 1969, her parents were both actors. His father, John Aniston starred in the TV series The Days of our Lives, for which the family moved to Los Angeles in 1987. Here, Aniston attended acting school, then started working on her acting career, but received only minor roles in unsuccessful shows and movies before Friends.

Jennifer Aniston was cast to the role of Rachel Green in the sitcom Friends in 1994, which she played until the end of the show in 2004. It gave a huge boost to her career, and also an opportunity to show her talent in major Hollywood movies. In the last seasons of Friends, Aniston earned 1 million dollars for each episode.

The movie career of Aniston is somewhat less spectacular. She starred in quite a few movies, but failed to achieve a real place among the stars of the big screen. Jennifer Aniston’s first real movie role was in Leprechaun (1993), she got lead role in this not very successful horror-comedy. After the success of Friends, she received a role in Office Space (1999), a romantic comedy, and later on, in Bruce Almighty (2003) as co-star of Jim Carrey. Lately, she starred in Derailed (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005), but besides these, she did not have many roles in movies.

Jennifer Aniston is also famous for her marriage to Brad Pitt, mainly because their entire relationship, including their divorce, was widely publicized in the media. The couple married in 2000, and they divorced in 2005. Various speculations are surrounding the divorce, some more marketable ones including Pitt’s relationship with Angelina Jolie. Currently, Aniston is dating actor Vince Vaughn.

As for the future of Jennifer Aniston, it is questionable whether another major breakthrough is to be expected in her career. She has been starring in more significant movies lately, but none of these exceeded the success of Friends, and for the audience Jennifer Aniston will always remain Rachel Green. There are also unconfirmed rumors about the resurrection of Friends with the original cast.

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