Who is Monica Geller?This is one of the main characters of the famous television series "Friends". She likes to cook, is obsessed with cleanliness, lives with her school friend. The role of Monica Geller in the series was played by actress Courtney Cox.
Courtney Bass Cox was born in Birmingham on June 151964. Her father was a businessman, and his mother a housewife. Courtney has two older sisters and a brother. When the future actress was only 10 years old, her parents divorced. She stayed to live with her mother, who after a while again married another businessman Hunter Copland.
After school, Courtney, the future Monica Geller,went to Washington to study. She entered the University of Vernon College with a degree in Design and Architecture. In her free time, the girl actively engaged in sports - tennis, swimming, was in the support team of the football team.
In the series "Friends" Monica Geller is not at all like Courtney Cox. The heroine in school years, according to the script, was a fat woman and lost weight only by the beginning of adulthood.
In real life, Courteney Cox is already in collegedreamed about the career of an actress. When she was invited to work in a modeling agency, she decided that this would bring her closer to her dream, and immediately agreed. And it happened. A beautiful girl with a sports figure regularly began to print on the covers of various youth magazines. Then she was invited as an actress to shoot commercials for Maybeline and Tampax. Courtney was the first woman on television, who participated in advertising tampons and publicly talked about critical days. The girl was finally noticed.
In 1984, she was invited to star in a Bruce videoSpringsteen. In the same year she was invited to the television project "How the World Is Rotating". This work provided the young actress with a lot of proposals from different directors. The future Monica Geller chooses from them to participate in the series "Martyrs of Science" and goes to the shooting in Los Angeles.
Courtney Cox before the role in the series "Friends" was shotin many films and serials. These are "Lord Fate", "The Lords of the Universe", "Cocoon: Rotation", the television series "Family Ties", but all these roles did not bring Cox much success and fame.
Monica Geller in the series made herself quiteAnother career. Nevertheless, the series also received success. According to the script, she always dreamed about the career of a professional chef, and eventually she becomes them and even opens her own restaurant.
1994 was the most successful career in Courtney.First, she was invited to the film "Ace Ventura: search for pets", and then in the sitcom "Friends." Courtney was not immediately spelled out in the script as Monica Geller. Actress first tried for the role of Rachel Greene. However, the role of Monica was more appealing to Cox, and she persuaded the project directors to approve it for this role.
According to the scenario of Monica - the sister of paleontologist Ross Geller. First she lives with her friend Phoebe Buffet, and then, when she moves, Rachel Greene comes to Monica.
Sister Ross is very organized, loves to win in everything, worries about the fact that his brother was more loved by his parents in his childhood.
Monica Geller's makeup on the show is discreet and elegant. The hair is laid neatly, the hair is voluminous with curls.
The show quickly became very popular withviewers all over the world. Critics also positively evaluated the new TV project. How much money did Courteney Monica Geller bring? "Friends" became so popular with TV viewers that the actors who performed the main roles became the highest paid on television. In the last seasons of the show they were paid one million dollars for each series.
In parallel to filming in the series "Friends" actressCourtney Cox took part in the work on the horror film "Scream". There, she met her future husband, actor David Arquette. In 2004 they had a daughter. The pregnancy of the actress coincided with the end of the filming of the series "Friends." In 2010, Courteney Cox and David Arquette broke up, and in 2013 divorced.
In the series, the personal life of Monica Geller is not immediate, butnevertheless develops successfully. With a friend of Ross, Chandler, according to the script, she met while studying in high school. By the middle of the series between Monica and Chandler, a novel is being fastened, and by the end of the show they marry and adopt children.
After the end of the television series "Friends" Courtney Coxtook part in many television projects, but none of her role could not be compared in popularity with the one that brought the actress the role of Monica Geller.
