Though she would spend most of her youth in New York, Jennifer Aniston was born Jennifer Joanna Aniston in Sherman Oaks, California, on February 11, 1969. She spent one year of her childhood at the age of 5 in Greece, the country where her father is from. Well connected to the business from the beginning – her father is veteran Days of Our Lives star John Aniston; her godfather is none other than Telly Savalas – Jennifer did not discover her own penchant for acting until attending the Rudolf Steiner School drama club at 11.
Aniston has also nurtured a big-screen career, often alternating between small, independent films like Office Space and 2002's The Good Girl and big-budget productions like the Jim Carrey vehicle Bruce Almighty. Recent films include 2004's Along Came Polly opposite Ben Stiller, Derailed and Rumor Has It. In 2006, she continued her mix of filmmaking styles with the ensemble production Friends with Money, which opened at Cannes, and the blockbuster romantic dramedy The Break-Up.
In her effort to find a way out from the gloom situation, Jen boldly entered the audition for a pilot show of a new NBC sitcom called "Friends" set to debut in fall 1994. Initially plotted to do the test for the role of Monica Geller, she instead persuaded the series' producers to give her a try for that of Rachel Green and satisfyingly left such a deep impression on them that they eventually agreed ...
