Jennifer Aniston

At 55 years old, Jennifer Aniston has this physical status:

Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress, film producer, and businesswoman.

The daughter of actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow, she began working as an actress at an early age with an uncredited role in the 1987 film Mac and Me.

Her first major film role came in the 1993 horror comedy Leprechaun.

Since her career grew in the early 1990s, Aniston has been one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood.

Aniston rose to international fame portraying Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), for which she earned Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.

The character was widely popular while the series aired and was later described as one of the greatest female characters in American television history.

Aniston has since played starring roles in numerous comedies and romantic comedies.

Her box office successes 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 grossed over $200 million in worldwide box office receipts.

Her most critically acclaimed roles include such films as Office Space (1999), The Good Girl (2002), Friends with Money (2006), Cake (2014), and Dumplin' (2018).

She returned to television in 2019 producing and starring in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show. Aniston has been included in numerous magazines' lists of the world's most beautiful women.

Her net worth is estimated to be US$200 million.

She is the recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Aniston is also the co-founder of the production company Echo Films, established in 2008.

Divorced from actor Brad Pitt, to whom she was married for five years, Aniston is separated from actor Justin Theroux, whom she married in 2015.

Early life

Aniston was born on February 11, 1969, in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles to Greek-born actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow. One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Louis Grieco, was from Italy. Her mother's other ancestry includes English, Irish, Scottish, and a small amount of Greek. Her father's ancestry is from the Greek island of Crete. Aniston has two half-brothers: John Melick, her older maternal half-brother; and Alex Aniston, her younger paternal half-brother. Her godfather was actor Telly Savalas, one of her father's best friends.

Her family moved to New York City when she was a child. Despite her father's television career, she was discouraged from watching television, though she found ways around the prohibition. When she was six, she began attending a Waldorf school. Her parents divorced when she was nine.

Having discovered acting at age 11 at the Waldorf school, Aniston enrolled in Manhattan's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she joined the school's drama society, and where Anthony Abeson was her drama teacher. She performed in The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry and Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov.

Personal life

Aniston practices Hatha yoga and Budokan karate. In 2014, she spoke of her Transcendental Meditation practice. The following year, she revealed she has dyslexia, which had affected her education and self-esteem, and that after being diagnosed in her twenties, her outlook toward life changed. She stated, "I thought I wasn't smart. I just couldn't retain anything. Now I had this great discovery. I felt like all of my childhood trauma-dies, tragedies, dramas were explained."

Aniston donated to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and took part in a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign. She endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

Aniston met Brad Pitt in 1998, and their relationship was highly publicized. She married Pitt, after two years of dating, on July 29, 2000, in a lavish Malibu wedding. For a few years, their marriage was considered the rare Hollywood success. On January 7, 2005, they announced their separation, and finalized their divorce on October 2. During their divorce proceedings, news media speculated that Pitt had been unfaithful to Aniston with his Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie, with whom he began a relationship soon after the split. In the months following, the public's reaction towards the divorce was reported in the press, and "Team Aniston" and "Team Jolie" T-shirts appeared throughout the country. Aniston commented on the divorce in a January 2015 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, stating, "Nobody did anything wrong... It was just like, sometimes things [happen]."

In 2005, amid reports that their divorce was due to Aniston's refusal to have children with Pitt, Aniston said, "I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will! ... I would never give up that experience for a career." Aniston said the divorce prompted her to reach out to her mother, Nancy, from whom she had been estranged for nearly a decade. Nancy had talked about her daughter on a television show and written From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir (1999). Aniston said she had been devastated by the death of her longtime therapist, whom she credited for helping make her separation from Pitt easier. She said she did not regret her relationship with Pitt, describing it as "very intense" and "a beautiful, complicated relationship".

Aniston began a relationship with actor, director, and screenwriter Justin Theroux in May 2011. The following January, they purchased a home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles for roughly $22 million. They became engaged on August 10, 2012 and were married on August 5, 2015, at their estate. They separated at the end of 2017.

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Career

Aniston started working as a cook, waitress, and bike messenger in Off-Broadway productions such as For Dear Life and Dancing on Checker's Grave, and later supported herself with part-time jobs including a telemarketer, waitress, and bicycle messenger. She appeared in the critically praised sci-fi adventure film Mac and Me in 1988. She appeared on The Howard Stern Show as a spokesmodel for Nutrisystem and then moved to Los Angeles.

She appeared in Ferris Bueller, a television version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 1986, and was soon dismissed. In the horror film Leprechaun (1993), she appeared as a teen going to summer camp in the made-for-television film Camp Cucamonga (1990) as a spoiled daughter and a vengeful leprechaun. Leprechaun was her worst role in a 2014 retrospective by Entertainment Weekly, and Aniston herself has expressed skepticism over it.

Aniston appeared in two failed television comedy series The Edge and Muddling Through, as well as guest-starred in Quantum Leap, Herman's Head, and Burke's Law.

Aniston, who was distraught over her four failed television shows, confronted Warren Littlefield at a Los Angeles gas station, asking for protection. The head of NBC entertainment encouraged her to continue acting and a few months later, she appeared in Friends, a comedy series that would debut on NBC's 1994-1995 fall lineup. Aniston was supposed to appear in Monica Geller's role, but Courteney Cox was deemed more suitable, and Aniston was played as Rachel Green. She was also given a spot as a featured artist on Saturday Night Live, but Friends turned it down in favour of Friends. Rachel appeared on television until the show ended in 2004, when Aniston took a 15-year break from television to occasional guest appearances.

The program was a huge success, and Aniston, as well as her co-stars, gained worldwide fame. Her character was particularly well-received. She has five Primetime Emmy Award nominations (two for Supporting Actress and three for Lead Actress) as well as a Gold Award for Lead Actress. She was also nominated for two Golden Globe Awards in 2003 and named Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. Aniston (along with her female co-stars) became the highest-paid television actress of all time with her $1 million-per-episode paycheck during the final season of Friends, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. In polls and magazines, her character's relationship with Ross Geller, which was portrayed by David Schwimmer, was extremely popular among audiences; they were often voted television's favorite couple.

Aniston returned to film in 1996, following a four-year absence, when she appeared in the ensemble cast of romantic comedy She's the One. Picture Perfect (1997), her first film role, in which she played a struggling young advertising executive opposite Kevin Bacon and Jay Mohr, was her first film vehicle. It received mixed reviews and was only a modest commercial success; but Aniston's result was more warmly received, with several commentators claiming she had screen presence. In 1998, she appeared as a woman who falls for a gay man (played by Paul Rudd) in the romantic comedy The Object of My Affection, and in the cult film Office Space, she starred as a restaurant waitress.

In the dramedy Rock Star (2001), Aniston appeared alongside Mark Wahlberg and Dominic West. She appeared in The Good Girl, an independent cashier, who cheats on her husband. In North America, the film was a commercial success in limited release, grossing over $4 million. Roger Ebert, a film critic, said it was her breakthrough: she is a film critic.

Bruce Almighty (2003), where she played the girlfriend of a television field reporter (Jim Cary), has been Aniston's biggest commercial success in film (Jim Carney). It was the year's fifth-highest-grossing feature film, with a worldwide box office gross of $484 million. In the romantic comedy Along Came Polly (2004), which was number one at the North American box office, Aniston came next as the old classmate of a tightly wound newlywed; it later made $172 million worldwide.

Aniston, an obituary and wedding announcement writer in the romantic comedy Rumor Has It, appeared in 2005 as an alluring woman having an affair with an advertising executive in the drama Derailed, as well as as an obituary and wedding announcement writer. Both films were moderately successful in terms of box office appreciation. In the free drama Friends with Money (2006), which received limited access, Aniston played a single, cash-trapped woman serving as a maid.

Her next film, alongside Vince Vaughn, was The Break-Up (2006), in which she starred as one half of a couple going through a difficult split when both partners refuse to move out of the pair's recently acquired house. The device received mixed feedback, but it raised $39.17 million in the first weekend and $204 million globally. The A.V. vs. the A.V. "It's like watching the 'we were on a break' episode of Friends,' without the blessed relief of commercial breaks or the promise of Seinfeld around the corner, club founder Keith Phipps gave the film a scathing critique. "In an age of formulaic romantic films that bear no resemblance to reality, The Break-Up offers a refreshing flipside," CinemaBlend gave the film a positive review.

Aniston produced and produced Room 10, set in a hospital emergency room and starring Robin Wright and Kris Kristofferson in Glamour's Reel Moments film collection in 2006. She was inspired by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who also produced a short film this year. Aniston appeared in an episode of Dirt in 2007, portraying the rival of Courteney Cox's role in a 30 Rock episode, and as a woman who stalks Jack Donaghy. She was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series by the Primetime Emmy Award for the second year.

Marley & Me, a comedy starring Aniston and Owen Wilson as the owners of the titular dog, set a record for the largest Christmas Day box office ever with $14.75 million. It earned a total of $51.7 million over the four-day weekend and landed as the number one at the box office, a position it held for two weeks. The global sales total hit was $242.7 million. She's next film in wide release, He's Just Not That Into You (2009), in which she starred opposite Ben Affleck, grossing $178.8 million worldwide and ranked number one at the US box office for the first weekend. Though the film received mixed feedback, critics lauded Aniston, Affleck, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Jennifer Connelly as standouts in the film.

In the romantic comedy action film The Bounty Hunter (2010), Aniston appeared as the former wife of a bounty hunter (Gerard Butler). Critics panned the film, with The Hollywood Reporter describing "the mishmash" as a "completely unfunny adult cartoon." Nonetheless, it was a box office hit, with sales over $130 million around the world. A lukewarm box office reception welcomed her upcoming film, The Switch (2010), in which she starred with Jason Bateman as a 30-something single woman decides to have a child using a sperm bank. The film's opening weekend brought in what The Hollywood Reporter called "a dispiriting $8.4 million." The film received generally mixed praise, with metacritic revealing 13 out of a total of 30 critics having a positive verdict.

In 2010, Aniston appeared as a psychiatrist in ABC's season two premiere. Her announcement that she would appear on Cougar Town sparked a lot of excitement, and she was dubbed back to television. The A.V. "[her role] is a funny piece, and it shows how much Jennifer Aniston is made to be a TV actress," the club wrote. She appeared in Horrible Bosses as an office manager as the wife of a plastic surgeon in the romantic comedy Just Go with It, and as a sexually invasive dentist. Just Go With It and Horrible Bosses earned over $100 million in North America and $200 million around the world.

Aniston appeared in The Object of My Affection and also Friends as a married couple with a communal identity after losing their money and deciding that modern life is not for them. Judd Apatow wrote the script for Wanderlust, which was bought by Universal Pictures. Wanderlust received rave reviews, but the box office failed, grossing just $21 million worldwide against a $35 million budget. In We're the Millers (2013), Aniston starred as a struggling stripper who promises to pos as a wife for a drug deal. Critics generally dismissed the film, but it was a financial success, grossing $269 million against a budget of $37 million.

In Life of Crime (2014), a film version of Elmore Leonard's 1978 novel The Switch, Aniston played a stoic socialite who becomes the object of an ill-planned kidnapping plot. The film was released in limited theaters with high praise. "Aniston tops any of her latest appearances with a spirited turn that harkens back to her neurotic days on Friends," Catherine Shoard of The Guardian wrote about her appearance as "endearingly come." She has also appeared in Horrible Bosses 2 (2014).

Claire Simmons, an astringent woman who suffers with chronic pain, appeared in Cake (2014). The film received mixed reviews; however, Aniston's performance was praised, and some commentators dubbed "oscar-worthy." "It's definitely on most people's radar for being a rare dramatic turn for Jennifer Aniston," Gregory Ellwood of HitFix said. "Aniston makes you believe in Claire's pain," he added. This woman makes you believe that this character is at her lowest point, and that only she can get herself out of it. ... It's a complete job from start to finish, and she deserves the highest praise for it." Aniston was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, SAG Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress for her performance.

Aniston starred in the screwball comedy She's Funny That Way in 2015, which received mixed reviews and found limited success in theaters, but her presence was once more noticeable. Wesley Morris of Grantland referred to her as "one of the greatest screen comedians" in the film. ... The bulk of her scenes here are extraneous, but her vulgarity and tartness are so sharp that the film needs them. ... This isn't just Aniston that has the best stuff. It's her having the most fun with her natural abilities. In every way, she is amusing." According to Lou Lumenick of the New York Post, she was "one of the film's few bright spots."

In the romantic comedy Mother's Day (2016), directed by Garry Marshall and opposite Julia Roberts and Kate Hudson, Aniston appeared as the recently divorced mother of two children. Critics and a modest commercial success slammed the film. In 2016, she portrayed a workaholic and overprotective mother in the animated film Storks, which received mainly favorable feedback; it earned over $183.4 million against a $70 million budget. Will Speck and Josh Gordon's last film role as the head honcho of a company in the comedy Office Christmas Party was the last of her female lead honchos, as well as James Bateman and Kate McKinnon. Around the world, it took in $114.5 million.

Aniston, Alden Ehrenreich, Tye Sheridan, Jack Huston, and Toni Collette appear in The Yellow Birds, a war drama produced by Alexandre Moors, portrays the mother of a deceased soldier. Although she said she does not "naturally gravitate towards being in war films," she made an exception because the film was "written so well and in such a way [she] had never experienced." In June 2018, the film, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, was released as a VOD. "Toni Collette and Jennifer Aniston, as the soldiers' very different but equally concerned mothers, give uniformly naturalistic performances," the Los Angeles Times wrote in its review.

Netflix unveiled the musical comedy Dumplin' in December 2018, with Aniston as executive producer and star, marking her first attempt at a subscription service. She began working on two more Netflix projects in 2019: Murder Mystery, a comedy that reunites her with Adam Sandler; and First Ladies, a film about the first lesbian president of the United States, with Tig Notaro as her wife.

Aniston made her return to television on November 1, 2019, co-producing and starring Reese Witherspoon in the Apple TV+ drama The Morning Show. It's her first main television appearance since the 2004 premiere of Friends. Aniston received the Screen Actor Guild Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series, as well as two Golden Globe Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Television Series – Drama as the series' producer.

In May 2021, she and her Friends cast mates reunited for an HBO Max unscripted television special titled Friends: The Reunion.

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