Courtney Cox is a total neat-freak and a mother hen to her friends, just like her character, Monica Geller, but Courteney doesn't care. "The character's neat, capable, controlling. So I'm like Monica. Big whoop." She even cooks like her character, a chef.. Former boyfriend Michael Keaton (they broke up in 1995) gave her a six-ring professional stove as a present in 1992.
Her hobby is renovating homes and she's moved five times in eight years, each time selling the house full of her own paintings and carpentry for a profit. She even does the electrical wiring and once made an office desk.
A native of Birmingham, Alabama, at 17 she moved to New York to become a model as a leg-up into acting. But modelling wasn't her thing. "I was short, had baby fat and didn't have the model attitude," she said in an interview last year.
In her teens she made her mark in two different attention grabbing ways. She has the honour of being the first person to say the word "period" in an ad for tampons on American TV, at the age of 19. And she was chosen to be the girl pulled from the audience to dance with Bruce Springsteen in his "Dancing in the Dark" video.
She then landed a job on Family Ties as Michael J. Fox's girlfriend, which she once described as "like being at sitcom school" Of her motion-picture credits, Cox starred in Scream and the sequal, interstingly titled Scream2. Cox also had a starring role opposite comedian Jim Carrey in the box- office hit "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective." Her other feature films include "Commandments," "Down Twisted," "Masters of the Universe," "Cocoon: The Return, Shaking the Tree," "Mr. Destiny" and "Blue Desert."
On stage, she starred with Michael Spound in "King of Hearts" at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles. She has been linked in the past with Christian Slater and she is now married to Scream co-star David Arquette.
She loves to help people, whether they like it or not. When Liam Neeson moved to LA to film Darkman in 1990, Courtney, who knew him through a mutual friend, helped him find a house, decorate and even made him meals to heat when he got home from shooting. "She made me feel blessed," he said.
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