Who is Monica Geller? This is one of the main characters of the famous television series Friends. She loves to cook, is obsessed with cleanliness, lives with her school friend. The role of Monica Geller in the series was played by actress Courteney Cox.
Early years
Courtney Bass Cox was born in Birmingham on June 15, 1964. Her father was a businessman and her 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 with her mother, who after a while remarried another businessman, Hunter Copland.
After school, Courtney, the future Monica Geller, went to Washington to study. She went to college at the University of Vernon to major in design and architecture. In her free time, the girl was actively involved in sports - tennis, swimming, was in the support group of the football team.
On Friends, Monica Geller is nothing like Courteney Cox. The heroine in her school years, according to the script, was fat and lost weight only by the beginning of her adult life.
Career
In real life, Courteney Cox is already inCollege dreamed of becoming 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 so it happened. A beautiful girl with a sports figure began to be regularly printed on the covers of various youth magazines. Then she began to be invited as an actress to shoot commercials for Maybeline and Tampax. Courtney was the first woman on television to appear in a tampon commercial and talk publicly about critical days. The girl was finally noticed.
In 1984, she was invited to star in a music video for Bruce Springsteen. In the same year, she was invited to the television project How the World Turns. This work provided the young actress with a lot of offers from various directors. The future Monica Geller chooses from them to participate in the series "Martyrs of Science" and goes to shoot in Los Angeles.
Courteney Cox starred in many films and TV shows before her role in Friends. These are "Mr. Destiny", "Lords of the Universe", "Cocoon: Spinning", the television series "Family Ties", but all these roles did not bring Cox significant success and fame.
Monica Geller made a very different career for herself on the show. Nevertheless, in the series, success also came to her. According to the script, she always dreamed of becoming a professional chef, and eventually she becomes one and even opens her own restaurant.
Series "Friends"
1994 was the most successful year of Courtney's career. First, she was invited to the film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and then to the sitcom Friends. Courtney was not immediately written into the script as Monica Geller. The actress initially auditioned for the role of Rachel Green. However, the role of Monica impressed Cox more, and she persuaded the directors of the project to approve her for this role.
According to the script, Monica is the sister of paleontologist Ross Geller. First, she lives with her friend Phoebe Buffay, and then, when she moves, Rachel Green moves in with Monica.
Ross's sister is very organized, likes to win in everything, worries about the fact that her brother was more loved in childhood by her parents.
Monica Geller's make-up in the series is discreet and elegant. The hair is neatly styled, the hairstyle is voluminous with curls.
The series very quickly became very popular with viewers around the world. Critics also positively assessed the new TV project. How much money did Courtney Monica Geller bring in? "Friends" became so popular with viewers that the actors who played the main roles became the highest paid on television. In the last seasons of the show, they were paid one million dollars per episode.
Private life
In parallel with the filming of the series "Friends", actress Courteney Cox took part in the work on the horror film "Scream". There she met her future husband, actor David Arquette. In 2004, their daughter was born. The actress's pregnancy coincided with the end of filming on Friends. Courteney Cox and David Arquette broke up in 2010 and divorced in 2013.
In the series, the personal life of Monica Geller is not immediately,but it still works out well. She met Ross' friend Chandler during her high school years. By the middle of the series, Monica and Chandler begin a romance, and by the end of the show they get married and adopt children.
After the end of the television series Friends, Courteney Cox took part in many television projects, but none of her roles could compare in popularity with the one brought to the actress by the role of Monica Geller.
