Friends -- All good things have to come to an end

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Jennifer Aniston's Biography:

Jennifer Aniston was born on February 11, 1969 in Sherman Oaks, California to Nancy and John Aniston (Victor Kiriakis on Days of Our Lives). Aniston, who is Greek, spent a year of her childhood living in Greece with her family but later, moved to New York when her father landed a role on the daytime drama, Love of Life. Aniston's parents separated when she was 9 years old. After the divorce, she was raised in New York City by her mother. Aniston was inspired to act after seeing the play Children of A Lesser God on Broadway. At 11, Aniston joined the Rudolf Steiner School's drama club. Aniston was, and still is, a very talented artist and at the young age of 11, one her paintings was displayed at an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. At 15, Aniston was accepted to New York's High School For The Performing Arts. In 1987, after graduating from high school, Aniston spent a year living at home with her mom. She did not want to go to college. Instead, she worked at a burger joint called Jackson Hole in Manhattan. During those burger-pushing days, Aniston won roles in the Off-Broadway productions of For Dear Life at New York's Public Theater and Dancing On Checkers Grave. Looking for more of a challenge, Aniston moved west where she met soon-to-be friend, Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing). During 1989, Aniston was cast in a handful of television shows. In 1993, Aniston won a part in Leprechaun. In those years, Aniston made a name for herself as an actress who would take risks and graciously accept criticism of herself and her work. Then, a pilot of a show called Friends Like Us came along. Aniston was originally tested for the role of Monica, but she told the producers that she felt much more comfortable with the Rachel character and they agreed. Life wasn't all easy for Aniston though. Before getting the role of Rachel Green on Friends, Aniston was told to lose some weight and she did. She lost 30 pounds. Now, as the girl everyone wants to look like, fame has proven to be a bit daunting for Aniston. Now, her passions for things like antiquing, hiking, and travelling have been halted, for the time being. She can no longer go out into public without being stopped for autograph requests or photos and finds the worst part of her newfound celebrity status is meeting a man. However, that doesn't seem to be a problem anymore because Jennifer Aniston is now married to actor, Brad Pitt.

Courteney Cox's Biography:

15 June 1964 Birmingham, Alabama Courteney is the youngest in a family of one brother and two sisters. Courteney's parents divorced when she was ten, and she stayed with her mother who later remarried. Upon graduation from Mountain Brook High School, Courteney went on to study architecture at Mount Vernon College in Washington. During summer holidays, Courteney would find herself in New York where she eventually signed with the Ford Agency as a model which segued into work in commercials for such companies as Maybelline, and Noxzema. It was only natural for her career to move into television and feature films, and she made her television debut in 1984 on the daytime soap As the World Turns. Later that year she was cast in Bruce Springsteen's video Dancing in the Dark. Fans remember it was Courteney who The Boss pulled onto the stage to dance with. Her first well known work came in 1987 when she got the role as Michael J. Fox's girlfriend on the hit TV series, Family Ties. Her feature film debut came with Maters Of The Universe, but she really hit the scene when she played opposite Jim Carrey in Ace Venture: Pet Detective, in 1994. She followed this success with the mega hit TV series, Friends. The result of becoming a household name, led her to nabbing a part in the boxoffice bonanza Scream, as well its two sequels, Scream 2, and Scream 3. On June 12, 1999, Courteney married fellow thespian, David Arquette.

Lisa Kudrow's Biography:

Critical Facts: Date of birth-July 30, 1963 Place of birth- Encino, CA Relations- husband Michel Stern, son Julian Murray Fanmail- c/o Endeavor 9701 Wilshire Blvd. 10th Floor Beverly Hills, CA 90212 CHANDLER is the smart-ass. Joey is the dummy. Monica is the neat-freak. Rachel is the bombshell. Ross is the nebbish. And Phoebe, she is the resident flake among this calculated mTlange of twentysomethings. As even the most TV-phobic among us know, the preceding personality parade represents the cast of NBC's smash sitcom Friends. The function of guitar-strumming massage therapist Phoebe Buffay is to provide some light-headed frivolity, an occasional musical interlude, and a dash of New Age nuttiness to an otherwise conventionally neurotic cast. But it turns out that Lisa Kudrow, the Vassar-educated actress who plays Phoebe, has little in common with her Friends counterpart. In fact, Kudrow is brainy, grounded, married — and safely into her thirties. Kudrow comes from intelligent stock. Her father, Lee Kudrow, is a doctor and one of America's foremost experts on headaches, and her older brother David (one of Kudrow's three siblings) is a neurologist. Mom, Nedra Kudrow, is a travel agent. Growing up in suburban Los Angeles, young Lisa seemed destined to follow in her father's footsteps. She was a bookworm in primary school, studied hard throughout high school, and then attended Vassar College in upstate New York to study biology. Kudrow, who shared a research credit on one of her father's studies, graduated in 1985, fully intending to become a medical researcher. That same year, however, comic Jon Lovitz, who is a good friend of David Kudrow, landed a role on Saturday Night Live. Lovitz's new job impressed Kudrow, and stirred acting impulses buried deep within her. You see, way back in sixth grade, Kudrow was known to throw a shawl or two around her shoulders and lip-synch to what else?- the soundtrack of Fiddler on the Roof. So impressive was Kudrow's portrait of the butcher's wife that her teacher arranged for her to perform her act in front of several classrooms. That rather Phoebe-esque phase looked for a time to be both the beginning and end of Kudrow's dramatic ambitions. But when Lovitz joined S.N.L., she was inspired to try acting again. Lovitz recommended that Kudrow audition for the Groundlings, the Los Angeles improvisational-comedy troupe that birthed his career as well as those of fellow yuksters Phil Hartman and Paul Reubens. After some acting lessons and several auditions, Kudrow was welcomed into the Groundlings' notorious brood. Not surprisingly, among her Groundlings sketch characters was a geeky professor who lectured about incomprehensible medical theories. By 1989, Kudrow had settled comfortably into the Los Angeles comedy scene, and so began auditioning for non-Groundlings gigs. After winning a role in a local production called The Ladies Room and parts in a few low-rent movies, she began making the rounds at the broadcast networks in hopes of earning a spot on a television show. Her first TV job of note was playing the girlfriend of Woody Harrelson's character on an episode of Cheers. Similar fleeting appearances on Coach, Newhart, and other series followed, and in 1993, Kudrow finally secured a recurring role as Mad About You's dippy waitress Ursula. History will cite Ursula as the actress's big break, because her skillful performance prompted NBC executives to encourage her to try out for a beefier position on another of the network's programs. Kudrow was passed over for the part of radio producer Roz on Frasier that part fell to the suitably snappy Peri Gilpin, and Kudrow instead won a place on Friends, which premiered in 1994. Because both Mad About You and Friends are NBC shows, Kudrow is able to portray both Ursula and Phoebe, whom the shows' producers decided to make twin sisters. Kudrow tapes Friends during the week in Burbank, and, when needed, she spends Friday afternoons in nearby Culver City to perform her part-time duties on Mad About You. It is, of course, the phenomenal success of Friends that made Kudrow a star and won her a 1995 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Capitalizing on her new-found notoriety, Kudrow snapped up a slew of movie roles, among them a small part in the Albert Brooks comedy Mother (1996) and co-starring assignments in Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (1997), The Opposite of Sex (1998), and Analyze This (1999). In her non-working hours, Kudrow plays tennis like a doctor's daughter and is happily married to advertising executive Michel Stern, with whom she has a son, Julian Murray. (Mr. Showbiz)

Matt LeBlanc's Biography:

Matt LeBlanc was born on July 25, 1967 in Newton, Massachusetts. As a kid, he was not very interested in acting. He preferred motorcycling. After receiving his first motorcycle at age 8, LeBlanc started participating in various amateur competitions with hopes of racing professionally. He soon ran into a roadblock: his mother, who forced him to find a different outlet for his talents. LeBlanc trained for a career in carpentry, but aspired to incorporate artistic elements to it. After graduating from high school, he set his sights on making a life for himself in New York City. By 1987, LeBlanc had obtained parts in national television commercials for such products as Levi's 501 jeans, Coca-Cola, and Doritos. He also appeared in a Heinz catsup spot that won the prestigious Gold Lion Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. In 1988, LeBlanc started formal acting training. Within a year, he landed a starring role in the television series "TV 101," and moved to Los Angeles. LeBlanc also guest-starred on the cable series "Red Shoe Diaries". LeBlanc has a dog named Lady. He also got married to model Melissa McKnight.

Matthew Perry's Biography:

TENNIS? Or acting? Those were the passions--and career options--that Matthew Perry held dear as a teenager. Tennis had been his favorite pastime since childhood (he was once the third-ranked junior doubles player in Canada), and acting is his father's profession. Perry caught the bug during a seventh-grade performance as Arriba Arriba Geneva in the dramatic classic The Life and Death of Sneaky Fitch. In 1984, acting eclipsed tennis in Perry's life: he retired his racquet after badly losing an important tournament. He would then spend a decade bopping between guest appearances on such seriously sorrowful sitcoms as Charles in Charge, Growing Pains, and Silver Spoons, before striking pay dirt as wisenheimer Chandler Bing on NBC's Gen-X jamboree Friends. We must point out that Chandler would be the first person to mock someone who had given up a tennis career to appear on an episode of Charles in Charge. Born in 1969 in small-town Massachusetts, Perry moved to Canada as a tot after his parents split up. His dad, John Bennett Perry, remained in the States to pursue his acting career, where he achieved a modicum of notoriety as the fresh-scented sailor on those Old Spice commercials. With her son in tow, Suzanne Perry settled in Ottawa, the city Matthew now calls his hometown, where she obtained employment as a political assistant, and, later, as press secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Perry attributes his noteworthy glibness--a trait on which he would build a career--to his quick-with-a-quote mother. By the age of fifteen, he was an accomplished tennis player with a budding desire to act, and both passions took him to Los Angeles, where his father lived. (Two years later, Suzanne followed her son to southern California with her second husband, TV-news anchor Keith Morrison, and their children.) In 1984, shortly after the tournament that squelched his tennis dreams for good, Perry landed his first professional acting assignment--an appearance on Scott Baio’s sitcom Charles in Charge. A few months later, Perry was "discovered" in true Hollywood fashion while cutting classes and hanging out in a restaurant. His waitress delivered the sixteen-year-old a napkin scribbled with the telephone number of director William Richert, who wanted to audition him for a movie. Though skeptical, Perry called Richert and later accepted a small part opposite River Phoenix in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988). Perry’s next milestone was graduating from high school, albeit with an underachiever’s marks. When his father pressured him to attend college, the two struck a deal: if Matthew couldn't find work as an actor within one year, he would enroll at the University of Southern California. Well, Perry certainly found acting jobs. Nothing steady, mind you, but work nonetheless. Just one week after graduation, he was offered the lead in a Fox sitcom called Second Chance, which had something to do with reincarnation and lame jokes. It was canceled promptly. Putting faith in Perry's abilities, Fox whipped together another sitcom, Boys Will Be Boys, around the would-be star. But it was also dead on arrival. Perry then morphed into what he calls Guest Star Guy, embarking on a series of one-episode stints on TV programs ranging from Michael Landon’s Highway to Heaven to Aaron Spelling’s Beverly Hills 90210. Name a show--any show--and Perry was on it. Who’s the Boss? Yes. Empty Nest? Yes. The Tracey Ullman Show? Yes. On a marginally grander scale, Perry co-starred on Valerie Bertinelli’s stillborn series Sydney in 1990, and the following year, he snagged a recurring part as Tracey Gold’s doomed boyfriend on Growing Pains. After so many strikeouts, Perry understandably wanted a break from sitcom hell. In 1993, he tapped into his savings and began writing his own TV comedy. One year later, he sold the pilot to Universal Television. Titled Maxwell’s House, Perry’s program was about a caffeinated cluster of six attractive twentysomethings who griped about their jobs, relationships, and generational malaise. Sound familiar? NBC thought so too when Perry and Universal pitched them the show. The network passed on Maxwell’s House because it was already developing a similar sitcom called--you guessed it--Friends. Although they didn’t want his program, NBC and the producers of Friends did want Perry, and they cast him as Chandler. As the legend goes, Friends debuted to immediate success on NBC’s fall 1994 schedule, and its six co-stars shot to international stardom. Like his castmates, Perry has capitalized on his sudden fame by spending hiatuses making movies. He hit the big screen in the date movie Fools Rush In, with Salma Hayek, in 1997, and in the comedy Almost Heroes, with the late Chris Farley, in 1998. On the personal front, the trappings of Friends’ success have provided Perry with a Porsche, a home in the Hollywood Hills, a nose job to soften his profile, and a brief fling with Friends guest star Julia Roberts. Would Chandler make fun of that, or what? (Mr. Showbiz)

David Schwimmer's Biography:

David was born on the 12th November 1966. He was raised in Beverly Hills where he quotes that his parents were rather strict. He says that he and his sister werent allowed to watch television apart from Saturday nights only. David has had numerous television roles including Blossom, LA Law, NYPD Blue and has had success in the box office with "The Pallbearer" whom he starred with Gwyneth Paltrow. He describes his character Ross Geller as a "90's guy, struggling with old fashioned values in a contemporary world."

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