Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Joanna Aniston is an American actress born on February 11, 1969. She is best known for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends, for which she earned an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. As of 2023, she has consistently ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses. Aniston is also a co-founder of the production company Echo Films, established in 2008, and holds a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Aniston was born in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow, and raised in New York City. She discovered acting at age 11 while attending a Waldorf school and later attended Manhattan's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she joined the drama society. Before securing regular acting work, she performed in off-Broadway productions and worked jobs as a telemarketer, waitress, and bike messenger.

Aniston's early television roles included the series Molloy and Ferris Bueller in 1990, as well as the 1993 horror comedy film Leprechaun. Her international breakthrough came when she was cast as Rachel Green on Friends, playing the role from 1994 to 2004. For her performance, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy.

During and following her tenure on Friends, Aniston built a prolific career in film. She starred in independent features such as The Good Girl (2002), Friends with Money (2006), and Cake (2014). She also led a series of successful major studio comedies, including Office Space (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), The Break-Up (2006), Marley & Me (2008), Just Go with It (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011), We're the Millers (2013), Dumplin' (2018), and Murder Mystery (2019).

In addition to acting, Aniston directed the short film Room 10 in 2006. In 2019, she returned to regular television work as a star and executive producer of the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show, earning a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role.