Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston, born February 11, 1969 in California, first started turning heads as the sexily dressed Rachel on the long running, hit NBC sit-com series Friends. While co-star Courteney Cox played an obsessive-compulsive neat freak and organizer, and Lisa Kudrow played an always good-natured, quasi-hippy ditz, Jennifer Aniston had an unusual task for a sit-com actress. Far from a stock character, Jennifer Anison’s Rachel had to follow a long arch over the show’s ten seasons.

In order to make the character last through ten busy seasons of madcap comedy, Jennifer Aniston had to show Rachel from every angle. She began the show as a ditzy waitress who had always been aloof and beyond fellow Friend Ross’ reach, and then came to love him before an unfortunate series of events drove them apart. During the following seasons, she managed the difficult task of being hilarious and likable, despite being quite cruel to one of the series’ most beloved characters. The predicted reconciliation came, and throughout all these vacillations, there remained a central core of believability to Jennifer Aniston’s portrayal of Rachel.

Jennifer Aniston’s Rachel character also ignited a massive trend with an eponymous hairstyle based on the on the long, enclosing tresses that framed Aniston’s beautiful face, and became strongly associated with the character. In addition to her busy shooting schedule on the set of Friends, Aniston pursued what would prove to be the most successful film career to date out of the six Friends stars with appearances in film’s ranging from cult classic Office Space to a slew of mainstream romantic comedies.

Despite her reputation today as one of Hollywood’s sexiest stars, Jennifer Aniston claims to have been an ugly duckling in her high school days, and a casual Internet search will turn up evidence that could arguably support her position. But now a swan, Aniston has managed to draw the attention of some of Hollywood’s hottest hunks, from heartthrob ex-hubby Brad Pitt to Tinsel Town’s bad boy king of comedy Vince Vaughn.