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Birth Name: |
Courteney Bass Cox |
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Birth Date: |
June 15, 1964 |
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Birth Place: |
Birmingham, Alabama, USA |
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Height: |
5' 5'' |
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Sex: |
F |
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Nationality: |
American |
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Profession: |
Actress, Producer, Model |
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Education: |
Mountain Brook High School |
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Mount Vernon College, Washington
D. C. (majored in Architecture; dropped out within a year) |
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Husband/Wife: |
David Arquette (actor; meeting
on the set of their 1996 movie Scream; married on June 12,
1999) |
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Relationship: |
Ian Copeland (manager; brother
of musician Stewart Copeland of the rock band the Police;
Cox's stepcousin), Michael Keaton (actor; together from 1989
to July 1995) |
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Father: |
Richard Cox (contractor;
divorced Cox's mother 1974; remarried 1975) |
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Mother: |
Courteney Copeland (remarried
1976) |
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Sister: |
Virginia Cox (older), Dottie
Pickett (née Cox; born 1962) |
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Brother: |
Richard (older) |
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Step Father: |
Hunter Copeland (businessman) |
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Sister in law: |
Rosanna Arquette, Richmond
Arquette, Patricia Arquette and Alexis Arquette |
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Daughter: |
Coco (born on June 13, 2004) |
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Claim to fame: |
As Monica Geller in Friends |
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Courteney Bass Cox was born June 15, 1964
in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.Courteney is the fourth child of Richard
(born in 1930) and Courteney (*1934) Cox. She has one brother,
Richard, two sisters (Virginia respectively Dottie Pickett) and nine
half-siblings. Courteney's parents divorced when she was ten. She
stayed with her mother who married businessman Hunter Copeland (*1918)
in 1976. Her father, a building contractor, moved to Florida where he
remarried in 1975.After graduation from the Mountain Brook High School
in Birmingham (1982) she began to study architecture/interior
decoration at the Mount Vernon College in Washington. In the summer
holidays she went to New York where she was subsequently signed by the
Ford modeling agency. After some shoots for magazines like Teen Beat
and Young Miss, and for romance-novel covers she started working in
television commercials for Maybelline, Noxzema and the New York
Telephone Company, among other sponsors.
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. 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 Theatre
in L.A., where she starred with Michael Spound (1989).
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. 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. |
