Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an
American film and television
actress. She became famous from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s for playing the role of
Rachel Green in the popular US sitcom
Friends, a role for which she won both an
Emmy Award and a
Golden Globe Award.
She has starred in several
Hollywood films, often alongside a member of the
Frat Pack. While most of her film roles have been in comedies such as
Bruce Almighty,
Office Space,
Rumor Has It, and the
romantic comedies Along Came Polly and
The Break-Up, she has also appeared in films from other genres, such as the crime thriller
Derailed.
Aniston's marriage to actor
Brad Pitt and their subsequent divorce received widespread media coverage.
