1. Fact File – Jennifer Aniston
Age: 50
Born: February 11th 1969 in Sherman Oaks, California, U.S
Occupation: Actress, Film Producer and Businessperson
Years active: 1987-Present
Net worth: $200 Million (May 2017)
Spouses: Brad Pitt (Married 2000, Divorced 2005)
Justin Theroux (Marriage 2015, Separated 2018)
Parents: John Aniston (Father) Nancy Dow (Mother)
Aniston gained worldwide recognition for portraying Rachel Green on the television sitcom
Friends in 1992 to 2004, a role which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe
Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. The character was widely popular during the airing
of the series and was later recognized as one of the greatest female characters in American
television.
Aniston has played the female protagonist in a number of comedies. Her box office hits
include Bruce Almighty, 2003, The Break-Up, 2006, Marley & Me, 2008, Just Go with It,
2011, Horrible Bosses, 2011, and We’re the Millers, 2013.
Each of which have grossed over US$200 million in worldwide receipts. Her most critically
acclaimed roles included the role of Olivia in Friends with Money, 2006, The Good Girl,
2002, for which she was nominated for an independent spirit award for best female lead,
and the drama Cake, 2014, for which she received nominations for the Golden Globe Award
and the Screen Actors Guild Award for best actress. Her other films include Along Came
Polly, 2014, and He’s Just Not That into You, 2009. In 2008 she co-founded the production
company Echo Films.
Aniston is one of the highest payed actresses in Hollywood, and as of 2017 her net worth is
estimated to e $200 million. She has also been included in magazine lists of the world’s most
beautiful women.
As a child, Aniston moved to New York City. Despite her father’s television career, she was
discouraged from watching TV, though she found ways around the prohibition. When she
was six, she began attending a Waldorf School. Her mother and father split up when she
was nine years old.
Having discovered acting at the age of 11 at the Waldorf school, she enrolled in and
graduated from Manhattan’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and
Preforming Arts, where she joined the school’s drama society.