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Courteney Cox
was born on June 15 in 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama. She
is the youngest of four children. Cox was close to her
father, a building contractor, and had a typical
mother-daughter relationship with her mom. When Cox was
10, her parents divorced after 19 years of marriage. Cox
stayed with her mother, brother and two sisters, but
blamed her mother for the divorce. She thought her dad
was the most fun person in the world and wished secretly
that things were back to the way they were before her
parents split. Cox matured and finally realized that her
parents didn't belong together forever. Both her father
and mother have since remarried, and Cox now considers
her mother her best friends.
Cox attended Mountain
Brook High and worked afternoons at a pool supply store.
She later saved enough money from that job to buy her
own car when she was 16 - a blue Datsun 210. Cox also
participated in the usual teenage activities like
cheerleading, tennis, and swimming.
In 1982, Cox graduated
from high school and then began to study architecture at
Mt. Vernon college in Washington. Near the end of her
first and last year of college, Cox met Ian Copeland,
her stepfather's nephew. They worked together for a New
York City music agent. Though Cox and Copeland were 15
years apart, a romance formed.
At that time, Cox
wanted to be a model, so Copeland suggested she pursue
it, but also try acting. Cox did ads for Noxema and
Maybelline and also, had a small soap role on As the
World Turns. When Copeland found Cox blossoming into
her choice of career, the two called it off.
It wasn't until 1984
that Cox gained mational attention as the girl Bruce
Springsteen pulled on stage to dance with at end of his
Dancing in the Dark video. The job paid $350, but
the exposure was enough to springboard Cox to other work
in the industry.
In 1985, Cox was in the
NBC series Misfits of Science, which was dropped
in four months. That same year, Cox was cast as Lauren,
Michael J. Fox's girlfriend on Family Ties. The
end of Family Ties brought Cox to a standstill in
her career. She did several motion pictures after, but
it wasn't until 1994 when she got her next big break.
Cox was cast as Jim Carrey's boss in Ace Ventura: Pet
Detective. Soon after, Cox won the part of Monica
Geller on Friends.
From this point on, Cox
is looking towards the future. Success has been a
long-time for this thirtysomething young woman, rightly
deserved and for Cox, richly rewarded. Cox is married to
actor, David Arquette, whom she co-starred with in the
Scream movies. |
