Jennifer Joanna Aniston was born February 11th 1969 in Los Angeles, California to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Because of her parents acting careers, Jen often traveled and spent a year living in Greece, her fathers home country.
She attended Rudolf Steiner school, where her interest to acting was found. at the age of 9, Jen's parents received a divorce, and Jen enrolled in Manhattan's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she continued in her love of drama.
In 1989, at the age of 20, Aniston appeared in several Off-Broadway productions, and worked several part-time employments such as waitress, telemarketer and bike messenger.
Between the years 1990-93 Jen appeared in several unsuccessful tv-shows. In midst of failure, she approached Television executive Warren Littlefield at a Los Angeles gas station, hoping for advice as to what she should do. He encouraged her to stay int he business, and only a few months later, Jennifer was casted to one of the most popular sitcoms in the world, Friends.
Her breakthrough career started in 1994, alongside cast mates Courtney Cox, Matthew Perry, Matt Leblanc, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow, all main characters on the hit show Friends.
Jen starred in the show for the whole whopping 10 seasons, and even achieved a Guinness World Record for the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $1 million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.
After finishing friends, Jen went on to star in several movies, including Marley & Me, Horrible Bosses and most recently, We're the Millers.
Jen starred in the show for the whole whopping 10 seasons, and even achieved a Guinness World Record for the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $1 million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.
After finishing friends, Jen went on to star in several movies, including Marley & Me, Horrible Bosses and most recently, We're the Millers.
