Courteney Cox
Born: 15th June 1964
Where: Birmingham, Alabama
A whisper-thin, raven-haired beauty of TV and film, Courteney first registered with audiences when she was plucked from the crowd by Bruce Springsteen in the Brian De Palma-directed video for Dancing in the Dark.
Work for the prestigious Ford Modelling Agency and appearances in a few high profile commercials led to a bit part on the soap As the World Turns.
This was followed by a regular role in the short-lived primetime series Misfits of Science.
Courteney then joined the cast of the hit sitcom Family Ties for the final two seasons as the brainy girlfriend of Alex P.
Keaton, played by Michael J. Fox.She made the leap to the big screen, appearing in the little-seen caper film Down Twisted and the children's sci-fi epic Masters of the Universe, and Cocoon: The Return.
Cox finally achieved small screen stardom as the neurotic aspiring chef Monica Geller, serving as the anchor of the ensemble, in the hit sitcom Friends.
She displayed her dramatic prowess as a blind rape victim in the made-for-cable movie Sketch Artist II: Hands that See before becoming the first of the "Friends" to score a big screen hit with Wes Craven's Scream in 1996.
