Jennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California on February 11, 1969. As a child, she spent a year in Greece with her family, after which they all moved to New York City. Her parents John Aniston and Nancy Dow divorced when Jennifer was only 9, and she was then raised by her mother. It was the tender age of 11 when Jennifer was able to experience acting for the first time. She had joined the Rudolf Steiner Schools Drama Club, which is the very same school that had developed her very passionate love for the arts. Afterwards, she studied at the New York's School of Performing Arts. After graduating from the school, she starred in a number of off-Broadway plays such as For Dear Life, and Dancing on Checkers Grave.
Aniston moved to Hollywood to pursue her career, but it did not come easy. She landed a role on the television series entitled Molloy, and in a TV movie called Camp Cucamonga, but Molloy was short-lived and Camp was barely given any attention. She starred in another series afterwards called Ferris Bueller, which was a TV adaptation of the 1986 John Hughes hit Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The series was quickly cancelled. After two more failed comedy shows, Jennifer Aniston was almost ready to give up acting altogether. This was when the role of Rachel Green came up in the NBC sitcom Friends. Although she had originally wanted to audition for the role of Monica Geller, Courtney Cox was deemed better suited for the role and thus Aniston auditioned for the role of Rachel.
Thus began the next ten years of Jennifer Aniston's life. Friends ran for ten seasons from 1994-2004, and by the last season, each of the cast members were earning one million dollars per episode. That means that in the 17-episode 10th season alone, the cast of Friends was able to make 17 million dollars. This is the show that gained Aniston her worldwide fame, along with her five other co-stars. It is also the show that won her the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. But despite her fame and fortune afforded to her by Friends, the time of the show had to come to an end, and Jennifer moved on to concentrating on her film career.
She had begun appearing in movies all the way back in 1992 when she starred in the movie Leprechaun. Though the movie was slaughtered by critics, it has since then developed a devoted cult following. Taking four years off, she made another movie in 1996 with Edward Burns and Cameron Diaz entitled She's the One, and she was the star of her own movie by 1997 in the film entitled Picture Perfect with Kevin Bacon and Jay Mohr. Ever since then, Aniston has been making more and more movies and gaining even more worldwide fame than even before. Her latest movie entitled Just Go With It starring across seasoned comedian Adam Sandler was released in early of 2011.