When he was a teenager, his physique caught the attention of the prestigious Ford agency and the rest is history
The spirit of Friends is still valid. Not only because Matthew Perry died seven months ago, but because this Saturday, his friend Courteney Cox turns 60. Problematic teenager and compulsive smoker, His attractive physique caught the attention of the prestigious Ford agency., who did not hesitate to hire her as the image of several brands. At the same time, she was studying acting in New York.
As almost all international media have reported, four decades ago her professional life changed forever when Brian de Palma (83) selected her for the video clip Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen (74) for which he received $350. The song was included on the album Born in the USAwhich marked the singer’s consecration and Courteney’s launch as an actress.
Her first big break in a series was when she played the girlfriend of Michael J. Fox (63) in comedy family entanglements (1982-1989) in the last two seasons. and it came Jim Carrey (62), the most important comedian of the 90s, alongside whom he starred Ace Ventura (1994). She became a star. That same year she would star Friends (1994-2004), one of the most iconic television series whose protagonists set a historic challenge by being the first to negotiate a salary of a million dollars per episode.
In 1996, her character of Gayle Weathers in the franchise scream It was crucial for his personal life to take on another direction since during filming he fell in love with David Arquette (52) -plays Agent Dewey-, belonging to the Arquette acting dynasty.
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They were married in San Francisco at Grace Cathedral on June 12, 1999 in the presence of 200 guests, including the actors Kevin Spacey (64) and Liam Neeson (72). In June 2004, his only daughter was born, Coconut (20), which was the high point of happiness for the couple since they had been wanting to be parents for some time. As the interpreter confessed in an interview on NBC News: “It was strange because everyone in my family has children. Nobody has a problem. I thought that would be my case. I remember one time I had a miscarriage and Rachel – her character on Friends – was giving birth. It was at the same time. “It was terrible having to be funny.”
The little girl’s godmother is Jennifer Aniston (54), one of Courteney’s closest friends, whom she affectionately calls Cocolicious. Against all odds, the Arquettes divorced amicably in 2013 – they had been living apart for two years before – so that their daughter would suffer as little as possible. The actor remarried actress Christina McLarty with whom he has two other children, Charlie and Augustus. Over the years, the North American interpreter has confessed that “now I have learned to set limits but before, when she was a child or teenager, “I wish I were a firmer mother.”
From 2009 to 2015 she was once again the queen of the small screen with the series Cougar Town, where his daughter made her acting debut. A year before ending this sitcom she started dating the singer Johnny McDaid from the band Snow Patrol, with whom she got engaged in June 2014. The funny thing about it is that they later canceled the engagement, but they are still a couple.
The actress lives in Malibu in a 9 million dollar mansion with stunning views of the ocean with her boyfriend and daughter. During her marriage to David Arquette she also lived in this town in a beachfront house whose starting price was $33.5 million. On her official Instagram account, Cox frequently makes funny videos in the garden of her residence. highly applauded by his followers.
In recent days, Courteney Cox has been trending topics because, forty years after the video clip Dancing in the Dark with Springsteen, has recreated the dance from the scene in which she goes to a concert and he asks a girl from the audience to dance who is none other than Cox herself. On this occasion, both are already world stars.
