Courteney Cox was born in Birmingham, Alabama on June 15th, 1964, being the youngest of four children. Courteney was very close with her father, and wished things could just go back to the way they were when her parents divorced when she was ten, after 19 years of marriage Courteney and he siblings stayed with her mother.

Courteney went to a Public High School in Birmingham: Mountain Brook High. She was a normal teen. She spent her afternoons at the local pool supply store earning some extra cash, as well as playing tennis, swimming, and cheerleading. She graduated in 1982.

From there she went to collage and studied architecture at Mt. Vernon College in Washington. She still likes to remodel homes and things of that sort. The a friend of hers, Ian Copeland, suggested she go into acting and helped her out. She shot some shoots for magazines like Teen Beat and Young Miss, and for romance-novel covers. Courteney's first roles included ads for Noxzema and Maybelline.

The in 1985 she appeared in the series Misfits of Science on NBC. The show was not a hit and was canceled after four months. That was not the end of it that year because later she landed a role on Family Ties, as Lauren, Michael J. Fox's girlfriend. When the show stopped, so did her career at the time.

The next big break would come in 1994 when she landed a part on Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Soon after that, she got casted on Friends, as Monica Gellar. Friends was a hit and led her to bigger and better things such as the Scream trilogy and 3000 Miles to Graceland.