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Hot-Lifestyle-News: The best source for quality free celebrity photos, news, biographies and wallpapers presents Jennifer Aniston. Jennifer Aniston was born the 11th of February, 1969, in Sherman Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles. Her Crete-born father, John (real name Anastassakis) had been brought to the US at age 10 when his parents opened a diner in Eddytown, Pennsylvania. He'd become an actor seeking work in LA (fellow Greek actor Telly Savalas w ... read full biography			Related Celebrity Pages: Angelina Jolie Photos

Jennifer Aniston Biography

Jennifer Aniston was born the 11th of February, 1969, in Sherman Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles. Her Crete-born father, John (real name Anastassakis) had been brought to the US at age 10 when his parents opened a diner in Eddytown, Pennsylvania. He'd become an actor seeking work in LA (fellow Greek actor Telly Savalas would be Jennifer's godfather) and win bit parts in the likes of 87th Precinct, Combat! and I Spy. Her mother was born in upstate New York, moving with her family to California where she'd work at Universal Studios, at one point signing autographs for Rock Hudson. Extremely good-looking, she eventually won parts in such fare as The Red Skelton Show and The Beverly Hillbillies, but lack of confidence in her ability caused her to give up acting.

Things were looking good for the Aniston family (Jennifer also had an older half-brother, John, 9 years her senior). From 1967 to 1970, John made good money playing Eric Richards in the series Days Of Our Lives, NBC's longest-running soap, concerning the trials and tribulations of the folks of a fictional Salem (he also appear in The Virginian and Mission: Impossible). It didn't last, however. When the part went, so did the good times. John worked as a door-to-door salesman, his only acting success being one small part in Savalas's Kojak. His wife won a few modelling contracts, but more money was needed. John considered entering the medical profession, but was too old to be taken in by any American university. Instead, when Jennifer was 5, he began his training in Athens, taking his family with him.

As said, young Jennifer was fascinated by art, but music played its part, too. At 12 she'd been obsessed by the then all-conquering Duran Duran and once spent a night outside a hotel, hoping for a glimpse of Simon Le Bon. By 14 she was dating a punk rocker from the East Village and shaved her hair up above her ears in a kind of modified mohawk. She wore many ear-rings and rubber bracelets and garbed herself exclusively in black. Looking back, she later reckoned she never liked punk music, preferring Van Morrison and Aerosmith, and was really still trying to unite her parents in concern for her.

Gradually she became recognised as a gifted comedienne. Not being able to impress with her looks, like so many of the other girls, she had instead begun to rely on making people laugh. And thankfully she was advised to not use this as an excuse to avoid going deep into characters. Graduating in 1987, she decided against college and worked as a waitress while auditioning and gaining experience off-Broadway in such stage productions as For Dear Life and Dancing On Chequer's Grave. She'd sneakily add a few extra productions to her CV when, in the summer of 1989, she began seeking auditions in Los Angeles while staying with her father.

While Muddling Through was on the shelf, she'd gone along to an audition for a new comedy series to be titled Friends Like These. Originally asked to play a character named Monica Gellar, she insisted on trying out for Rachel Green and stormed it, the Monica part going to Courteney Cox, original choice for Rachel. Along with Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc (whose character Joey would play Dr Drake Ramore in Days Of Our Lives) and Matthew Perry (he of the bitten bottom), they would play a group of young buddies in New York who drink coffee, engage in inconsequential chatter and make a mess of a long series of relationships that grow ever more incestuous. Unsurprisingly, its name now shortened to Friends, it was a massive hit. If Muddling Through had been picked up, Jennifer would have missed out.

Throughout the series' 10-year run, each of the cast members would rise to prominence for a while. Jennifer Aniston would be first, with her haircut being replicated on the heads of women everywhere. At first, Jennifer herself had hated it, vowing to wear a hat until she was allowed to change it. But the cut added to a success that was nothing short of phenomenal so she bit the bullet and ploughed on, intriguing much of the world with Rachel's on-off relationship with Monica's brother Ross, and many others. All the Friends would gradually perfect their styles as the show went on but, at the end of the day, it was Rachel - smart but ditzy, determined but undisciplined - who became the general favourite. No one had a bad word to say about Jennifer Aniston, other than to raise the possibility that, if she WERE just playing herself, she would never amount to a "serious" actress.

Things were not all bright, though. After Leprechaun, Jennifer had undergone an experience she wished she hadn't. Then weighing around 130 pounds she'd made the final audition for some show and was asked to turn up in leotard and tights. "That'll blow it for me", she joked to her agent, only to be told that, actually, he'd been meaning to ask her to lose weight. This she did - 20 pounds in a year, with the help of low fat diets, nutritionists, fitness gurus and the like. And it helped, but Aniston still curses the day she became body-conscious.

There was also the matter of love. Having earlier dated Charlie Schlatter, her Ferris Bueller co-star, Jennifer had just been enjoying her first "mature" relationship, with actor Daniel McDonald, but they'd split just before she got Friends. He'd gone off to New York and done well, being Tony-nominated for Steel Pier. Later Jennifer moved on to Counting Crows singer Adam Durvitz (an ex of Courteney Cox) and then Tate Donovan (an ex of Sandra Bullock) with whom she'd live for the two years up to March, 1998. Shortly after that, she'd meet her future husband, Brad Pitt.

Like the others, Aniston would use her downtime during Friends to attempt a film career. As said, Cox would luck out with the Scream series, but her co-stars did not fare so well. Schwimmer would appear in such nonsense as The Pallbearer and Breast Men, a brief show in Apt Pupil being his only respectable effort. LeBlanc suffered in Ed and Lost In Space while Perry endured Almost Heroes and Three To Tango before reverting to his Friends character in the Bruce Willis hit The Whole Nine Yards. Oddly, it was Kudrow, the unconscionably scatty Phoebe, who enjoyed the most varied and stable success, starring in the excellent comedy Romy And Michele's High School Reunion, the fascinating indie The Opposite Of Sex and the Robert De Niro hit comedy Analyse This. Yet, no matter how badly any of them did, Aniston did worse.

Like the others, Aniston would use her downtime during Friends to attempt a film career. As said, Cox would luck out with the Scream series, but her co-stars did not fare so well. Schwimmer would appear in such nonsense as The Pallbearer and Breast Men, a brief show in Apt Pupil being his only respectable effort. LeBlanc suffered in Ed and Lost In Space while Perry endured Almost Heroes and Three To Tango before reverting to his Friends character in the Bruce Willis hit The Whole Nine Yards. Oddly, it was Kudrow, the unconscionably scatty Phoebe, who enjoyed the most varied and stable success, starring in the excellent comedy Romy And Michele's High School Reunion, the fascinating indie The Opposite Of Sex and the Robert De Niro hit comedy Analyse This. Yet, no matter how badly any of them did, Aniston did worse.

All the while Friends kept getting bigger and many tricks were employed to keep the ratings up. For instance, when the show was suffering beside the reality TV of Survivor, Jennifer engaged in an onscreen kiss with Winona Ryder. The identity of the father of Rachel's child was another big one. If the producers needed more viewers they'd always involve Aniston more.

The furore surrounding the Pitt divorce would see Aniston's celebrity rise to ever greater heights. Onscreen, though, she was dutifully continuing her metamorphosis into a "serious" actress. In Derailed she'd play a businesswoman whose flirtation with fellow commuter Clive Owen develops into an affair. But, meeting at a dodgy hotel, the couple are violently interrupted by crook Vincent Cassel, who batters Owen and rapes Aniston. Then, having stolen their details, he begins to blackmail them, and their need for secrecy demands they seek an unusual solution to their problem. She'd follow this with another comedy, Rumour Has It, directed by Rob Reiner. Here she arrives back at her parents' for her wedding to Mark Ruffalo. Once home, though, she's shocked to discover that her family history was the inspiration for The Graduate and that both her mother and grandmother (Shirley Maclaine) have had affairs with local man Kevin Costner. Will Aniston now follow in that family tradition, and who's her real dad?

Aniston is going nowhere. Not only has she earned critical respect, but her famous loyalty (she was the only celebrity to visit Robert Downey Jr in Corcoran Jail, where he'd been beaten and choked) is sure to pay dividends, even in the nasty world of Hollywood. Whatever. She's certainly proved she's more than a simple haircut.

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