Jennifer Aniston

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American actress, best known as "Rachel," the sexy waitress on the immensely popular television comedy show, "Friends," which premiered in 1994. The daughter of actor John Aniston, a star on the daytime soap "Days of Our Lives," and his actress-model wife, Jennifer and her brother Alexander grew up in a show business environment. Her godfather, the noted actor Telly Savalas, encouraged her to pursue her dream of being a "star." Most of her youth was spent in New York, although her family lived in Greece for a year. When she was nine years old, her parents’ marriage ended in divorce. At age 11, she joined the Rudolf Steiner School drama club, where she studied the creative arts, and during that same year, one of her paintings was displayed at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jennifer later attended New York’s High School of the Performing Arts. After her graduation in 1987, she began working off-Broadway on productions like "For Dear Life" and "Dancing on Checker’s Grave" before making her television debut in 1989 in the show "Molloy." Although she had small parts on several short-lived television shows and made guest appearances on others, she had little luck in Hollywood until her agent advised her to shed 30 pounds. Her weight loss apparently made a difference, because soon thereafter she won the role on "Friends." Aniston has made a relatively successful transition to the big screen and has appeared in several romantic comedies including "She’s the One," 1996, "Picture Perfect," 1997, and "The Object of My Affection," 1998. Jennifer dated a fellow actor, Brad Pitt (b. 12/18/1963, Shawnee, OK) for 2 1⁄2 years before they were married on 7/29/2000 in Malibu, California. According to a trusted source who was in attendance but who wishes to remain anonymous, Aniston and Pitt were pronounced "man and wife" at 7:02 PM in Malibu, CA. Aniston's mother, who penned a tell-all book titled "From Mother and Daughter to Friends," was not invited to the ceremony. Aniston won a Golden Globe award as best actress in a TV comedy in January 2003, hobbling up with a broken toe to accept the award. In 2003, she was also named Forbes magazine's top-rated celebrity. On January 23, 2004 she and the rest of the cast of top-rated series "Friends" filmed their last episode to be aired in May 2004. On January 7, 2005, the actress and her husband of four years, Brad Pitt, announced their separation. Two months later, on March 25, 2005, she officially filed for divorce in Los Angeles. She and Vince Vaughn became an item shortly after her separation from Pitt but they announced their split in autumn of 2006. Aniston has been in a relationship with actor, director and screenwriter Justin Theroux since May 2011. In January 2012, Aniston and Theroux purchased a home in Los Angeles's Bel-Air neighborhood for roughly $22 million. On August 12, 2012, Aniston and Theroux announced their engagement. Link to Wikipedia biography