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The youngest of four children raised in Birmingham, Ala., Cox is a former model who signed with the Ford modeling agency shortly after finishing high school. Soon, the stunning brunette (Cox was People magazine's 1995 cover girl for the "50 Most Beautiful People" issue) was appearing on magazine covers and in television commercials. In 1984, Cox made her acting debut on the daytime drama "As the World Turns," but got her first big break later that year when she was cast by director Brian DePalma to portray the young fan whom Springsteen pulls out of the crowd in the music video "Dancing in the Dark." |
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| Cox enjoys remodeling and decorating homes in her spare time, and insists she is nothing like her compulsive character, Monica, in real life.Courteney got engaged to David Arquette earlier this year, in October to be more precise. And June 12th the gigantic ball dropped. The Scream co-stars became husband and wife. The ceremony was held at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco among friends and Friends. |
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Courteney made her acting debut in 1984 on the daytime soap ''As the World Turns'', and later that same year, she was casted by Brian de Palma for Bruce Springsteen's video 'Dancing in the Dark'. After the video, which probably opened Courteney some doors for her acting career later, Courteney hosted a music show called 'This Week's Music'. She also worked in 1984 at F.B.I. (Frontier Booking International) a concert booking agency in New York run by Ian Copeland (brother of Stewart of the Police) and a cousins of Cox's. |
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| Her first well-known work as an actress she did in 1987 when she was cast as the bright, perky girlfriend of Michael J. Fox on 'Family Ties'.Following the series, she did several feature films which had disappointing box office performance. Courteney had her first success as a movie actress when she appeared in 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective' together with Jim Carrey.Her stage work includes 'King of Hearts' at the Tiffany Theater in L.A., where she starred with Michael Spound (1989). |
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The final break-through to a star she achieved
in 1994 with the hit tv-series 'Friends' where she is playing 'Monica Geller'.
The show's producers originally envisioned her in the role of Rachel but
Courteney convinced them to give her the other role. In 1995 Courteney
co-hosted the 'MTV Movie awards'. Her biggest success on the big
screen so far was the movie 'Scream' (1996) which made more than $100 million
in the US.
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| After the low budget movie 'Commandments' (release 5/97) she continued the success with the sequel of Scream ('Scream 2'). It was released December 12, 1997 and made almost $40 million at its opening weekend.Since summer 1998 Courteney is engaged with David Arquette whom she met during the shooting of Scream. She married him on June 12, 1999. |
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