Jennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow.

The producers of the show originally wanted Aniston to audition for the role of Monica Geller, but Courteney Cox was considered to be better suited to the role.

Thus, Aniston was cast as Rachel Green.

The program was successful and Aniston, along with her co-stars, gained world-wide reputation among television viewers.

Aniston was a guest star on the Season 2 premiere of ABC's sitcom Cougar Town, playing a psychiatrist.

In 2006, Aniston appeared in the low-budget drama Friends with Money, which was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival and received a limited release.

Aniston noted that she was inspired to direct by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who also directed a short film in 2006.

On December 25, 2008, Marley & Me, in which Aniston starred alongside Owen Wilson, was released.

In 2001, Aniston was in Melissa Etheridge's music video for " I Want To Be In Love ".

Aniston worked for over a year on a new perfume, which was released on July 21, 2010, at Harrods in London.

Original plans called for the perfume to be named Lolavie by Jennifer Aniston, but to avoid confusion with a similarly named perfume, the name was changed to simply Jennifer Aniston.

During this period there was intense speculation in the media that Pitt had been unfaithful to Aniston with his Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star, Angelina Jolie.

Aniston revealed that her divorce prompted her to reach out to her mother, Nancy, from whom she was estranged for nearly a decade.

Aniston has also stated she was devastated by the death of her longtime therapist, whose work helped make her separation from Pitt easier.

Aniston said her relationship with Pitt, which she does not regret, was " seven very intense years together " and that " it was a beautiful, complicated relationship.

In August 2012, it was announced that Aniston and Theroux were engaged.

Aniston has had two septoplasties to correct her deviated septum — one which was incorrectly done in 1994 and the second in January 2007.

Aniston was also included in the annual Star Salary Top 10 of trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter for 2006.

According to Forbes, in October 2007, Aniston was the top-selling celebrity face of the entertainment industry.

Under the category of the most sought after body shape Aniston was voted in the top three alongside Gisele Bündchen and Penélope Cruz.

Her most recent stage appearance was at the sixth annual 24 Hour Plays alongside Jennifer Aniston, Rosie Perez, and Lili Taylor, in which six writers, six directors, twenty-four actors, and production crews have twenty-four hours to write, direct, and perform six ten-minute plays.

The actors were given the salary of the least-paid cast member, meaning Aniston and Schwimmer had their salaries reduced.

The cast remained good friends after the series ' run, most notably Cox and Aniston, with Aniston being godmother to Cox and David Arquette's daughter, Coco.

Leonard Green ' a recurring role on the hit comedy Friends where his character is the father of main cast member Rachel Green played by Jennifer Aniston.

In May 2010, Sudeikis joined the cast of the 2011 Seth Gordon comedy Horrible Bosses, which also starred Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Charlie Day, and Jason Bateman.

Aniston gained worldwide recognition in the 1990s for portraying Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends, a role which earned her an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Aniston has two half-brothers, John Melick, her maternal older half-brother, and Alex Aniston, her younger paternal half-brother.

As a child, Aniston lived in Greece for one year with her family.

After the string of canceled shows, along with her appearance in the critically derided 1992 horror film, Leprechaun, Aniston reportedly considered giving up acting.

According to the Guinness World Book of Records ( 2005 ), Aniston ( along with her female costars ) became the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $ 1 million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.

On July 16, 2009, Aniston received an Emmy nomination in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on 30 Rock.

In 1995, Aniston and her Friends co-star Matthew Perry shot a 60-minute instructional video for the release of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 95.

On April 14, 2007, Aniston received GLAAD's Vanguard Award for her contributions to increased visibility and understanding of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Aniston dated her Ferris Bueller TV costar Charlie Schlatter in 1990, and dated musician Adam Duritz in 1995.

After her divorce, Aniston began a relationship with actor Vince Vaughn, with whom she co-starred in The Break-Up.

Aniston is the godmother of Coco Riley Arquette, the daughter of her good friends, actors Courteney Cox and David Arquette.

In 2007, Forbes rated Aniston as one of the top 10 richest women in entertainment and estimated her net worth to be about $ 110 million.

Although Aniston disliked the hairstyle she wore during her first two years on Friends, " The Rachel " became and remains very popular among women.

This issue became the second highest selling issue for the magazine ; the first was the Jennifer Aniston cover after her divorce.

The pilot introduces six friends who live and work in New York City ; Monica ( Courteney Cox ) sleeps with a wine seller after their first date but is horrified to discover he tricked her into bed ; her brother Ross ( David Schwimmer ) is depressed after his lesbian ex-wife moves her things out of their apartment ; Monica's old schoolfriend Rachel ( Jennifer Aniston ) moves in with Monica after running out of her wedding ; and their friends, Joey, Chandler and Phoebe ( Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow ) offer them each support and advice.

A deal was eventually struck and, within three days of first auditioning, Aniston got the role.

Soap Opera Digest debuted in November 1975, co-founded by Angela Shapiro and Jerome Shapiro and featuring actors John Aniston, Ron Tomme, Audrey Peters, Birgitta Tolksdorf, Jerry Lacy, and Tudi Wiggins of Love of Life on its first cover.

Leprechaun is a 1993 horror comedy film written and directed by Rick James and starring Warwick Davis and Jennifer Aniston in her first feature film role.

Their first releases in 2005 included the dramatic thriller Derailed ( starring Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel and Clive Owen ), the offbeat comedy-drama Transamerica ( starring Felicity Huffman ) the computer-animated family film Hoodwinked, the World War II – era comedy-drama Mrs. Henderson Presents ( starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins ) and the caper comedy The Matador ( starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear ).